Schrodinger, Inc. (SDGR)
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SEC company page: https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=1490978. Latest filing source: 0001490978-26-000010.
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Business
Read SDGR's verbatim Item 1 Business section from its latest 10-K: Business.
Risk Factors
Read SDGR's verbatim Item 1A Risk Factors from its latest 10-K: Risk Factors.
Selected Fundamentals
| Metric | Value | Unit | FY | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 255,869,000 | USD | 2025 | 2026-02-25 |
| Net income | -103,265,000 | USD | 2025 | 2026-02-25 |
| Assets | 726,160,000 | USD | 2025 | 2026-02-25 |
Financials
Annual standardized facts from SEC companyfacts as of latest extracted filing date 2026-02-25. Source: https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0001490978.json. Derived margins, ratios, and free cash flow are computed from the extracted annual SEC facts.
| Metric | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 108,095,000 | 137,931,000 | 180,955,000 | 216,666,000 | 207,539,000 | 255,869,000 | |
| Net income | -24,571,000 | -24,463,000 | -100,393,000 | -149,186,000 | 40,720,000 | -187,123,000 | -103,265,000 |
| Operating income | -38,715,000 | -60,916,000 | -111,443,000 | -146,817,000 | -177,448,000 | -209,296,000 | -166,896,000 |
| Gross profit | 49,093,000 | 63,472,000 | 65,620,000 | 101,022,000 | 140,692,000 | 132,083,000 | 142,614,000 |
| Diluted EPS | -0.41 | -1.42 | -2.10 | 0.54 | -2.57 | -1.41 | |
| Operating cash flow | -26,059,000 | 16,757,000 | -70,669,000 | -119,683,000 | -136,733,000 | -157,368,000 | 13,899,000 |
| Capital expenditures | 1,836,000 | 2,538,000 | 7,167,000 | 8,014,000 | 13,403,000 | 7,311,000 | 1,442,000 |
| Assets | 155,270,000 | 746,263,000 | 756,487,000 | 688,587,000 | 802,955,000 | 823,226,000 | 726,160,000 |
| Liabilities | 57,013,000 | 122,244,000 | 199,402,000 | 240,682,000 | 254,397,000 | 401,781,000 | 362,107,000 |
| Stockholders' equity | -93,364,000 | 624,015,000 | 557,071,000 | 447,894,000 | 548,558,000 | 421,445,000 | 364,053,000 |
| Cash and cash equivalents | 25,986,000 | 202,296,000 | 120,267,000 | 90,474,000 | 155,315,000 | 147,326,000 | 230,517,000 |
| Free cash flow | -27,895,000 | 14,219,000 | -77,836,000 | -127,697,000 | -150,136,000 | -164,679,000 | 12,457,000 |
Ratios
| Metric | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | -22.63% | -72.78% | -82.44% | 18.79% | -90.16% | -40.36% | |
| Operating margin | -56.35% | -80.80% | -81.13% | -81.90% | -100.85% | -65.23% | |
| Return on equity | -3.92% | -18.02% | -33.31% | 7.42% | -44.40% | -28.37% | |
| Return on assets | -15.82% | -3.28% | -13.27% | -21.67% | 5.07% | -22.73% | -14.22% |
| Liabilities / equity | 0.20 | 0.36 | 0.54 | 0.46 | 0.95 | 0.99 | |
| Current ratio | 2.63 | 9.33 | 6.85 | 4.91 | 4.25 | 3.31 | 2.75 |
Industry Peer Context
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Financial Bridges
Income statement bridge from reported figures
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts FY 2025. Revenue: accession 0001490978-26-000010; concept Revenues; source concepts us-gaap:Revenues | Gross profit: accession 0001490978-26-000010; concept GrossProfit; source concepts us-gaap:GrossProfit | Operating income: accession 0001490978-26-000010; concept OperatingIncomeLoss; source concepts us-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss | Net income: accession 0001490978-26-000010; concept NetIncomeLoss; source concepts us-gaap:NetIncomeLoss
Free cash flow = operating cash flow - capital expenditures
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts FY 2025. Operating cash flow: accession 0001490978-26-000010; concept NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities; source concepts us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities | Capital expenditures: accession 0001490978-26-000010; concept PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment; source concepts us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment | Free cash flow: accession 0001490978-26-000010; concept NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities - PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment; source concepts us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities; us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment
Financial Charts
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001490978-26-000010; filed 2026-02-25. Concept: Revenues. Source concepts: us-gaap:Revenues.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001490978-26-000010; filed 2026-02-25. Concept: NetIncomeLoss. Source concepts: us-gaap:NetIncomeLoss.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001490978-26-000010; filed 2026-02-25. Concept: OperatingIncomeLoss. Source concepts: us-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001490978-26-000010; filed 2026-02-25. Concept: GrossProfit. Source concepts: us-gaap:GrossProfit.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001490978-26-000010; filed 2026-02-25. Concept: EarningsPerShareDiluted. Source concepts: us-gaap:EarningsPerShareDiluted.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001490978-26-000010; filed 2026-02-25. Concept: NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities. Source concepts: us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001490978-26-000010; filed 2026-02-25. Concept: PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment. Source concepts: us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001490978-26-000010; filed 2026-02-25. Concept: Assets. Source concepts: us-gaap:Assets.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001490978-26-000010; filed 2026-02-25. Concept: Liabilities. Source concepts: us-gaap:Liabilities.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001490978-26-000010; filed 2026-02-25. Concept: StockholdersEquity. Source concepts: us-gaap:StockholdersEquity.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001490978-26-000010; filed 2026-02-25. Concept: CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue. Source concepts: us-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001490978-26-000010; filed 2026-02-25. Concept: NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities - PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment. Source concepts: us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities; us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment.
Quarterly
Quarterly standardized facts from SEC companyfacts as of latest extracted filing date 2026-05-05. Source: https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0001490978.json.
| Quarter | End Date | Revenue | Net Income | Diluted EPS | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-Q2 | 2022-06-30 | -0.67 | reported discrete quarter | ||
| 2022-Q3 | 2022-09-30 | -0.56 | reported discrete quarter | ||
| 2023-Q1 | 2023-03-31 | 1.75 | reported discrete quarter | ||
| 2023-Q2 | 2023-03-31 | 129,136,000 | reported discrete quarter | ||
| 2023-Q2 | 2023-06-30 | 35,189,000 | 0.06 | reported discrete quarter | |
| 2023-Q3 | 2023-06-30 | 4,278,000 | reported discrete quarter | ||
| 2023-Q3 | 2023-09-30 | 42,569,000 | -0.86 | reported discrete quarter | |
| 2023-Q4 | 2023-12-31 | 74,126,000 | -30,670,000 | derived Q4 = FY annual - nine-month YTD | |
| 2024-Q1 | 2024-03-31 | 36,598,000 | -54,724,000 | -0.76 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2024-Q2 | 2024-03-31 | -54,724,000 | reported discrete quarter | ||
| 2024-Q2 | 2024-06-30 | 47,334,000 | -0.74 | reported discrete quarter | |
| 2024-Q3 | 2024-06-30 | -54,047,000 | reported discrete quarter | ||
| 2024-Q3 | 2024-09-30 | 35,290,000 | -0.52 | reported discrete quarter | |
| 2024-Q4 | 2024-12-31 | 88,317,000 | -40,216,000 | derived Q4 = FY annual - nine-month YTD | |
| 2025-Q1 | 2025-03-31 | 59,551,000 | -59,808,000 | -0.82 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2025-Q2 | 2025-06-30 | 54,759,000 | -43,173,000 | -0.59 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2025-Q3 | 2025-09-30 | 54,324,000 | -32,795,000 | -0.45 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2025-Q4 | 2025-12-31 | 87,235,000 | 32,511,000 | derived Q4 = FY annual - nine-month YTD | |
| 2026-Q1 | 2026-03-31 | 58,587,000 | -60,026,000 | -0.81 | reported discrete quarter |
Quarterly Charts
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2026 ended 2026-03-31; accession 0001490978-26-000037; filed 2026-05-05. Concept: RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax. Source concepts: us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2026 ended 2026-03-31; accession 0001490978-26-000037; filed 2026-05-05. Concept: NetIncomeLoss. Source concepts: us-gaap:NetIncomeLoss.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2026 ended 2026-03-31; accession 0001490978-26-000037; filed 2026-05-05. Concept: EarningsPerShareDiluted. Source concepts: us-gaap:EarningsPerShareDiluted.
Macro Cross-References
- CPIAUCSL - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items in U.S. City Average
- UNRATE - Unemployment Rate
- FEDFUNDS - Federal Funds Effective Rate
- CES0500000003 - Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees, Total Private
- DFEDTARU - Federal Funds Target Range - Upper Limit
- DFEDTARL - Federal Funds Target Range - Lower Limit
- DGS3MO - Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 3-Month Constant Maturity
- DGS2 - Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 2-Year Constant Maturity
- DGS10 - Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 10-Year Constant Maturity
- DGS30 - Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 30-Year Constant Maturity
- T10Y2Y - 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Minus 2-Year Treasury Constant Maturity
- CPILFESL - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items Less Food and Energy
- CPIUFDSL - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Food
- CPIENGSL - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Energy
- CUSR0000SAH1 - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Shelter
- PCEPI - Personal Consumption Expenditures: Chain-type Price Index
- PCEPILFE - Personal Consumption Expenditures Excluding Food and Energy: Chain-type Price Index
- PPIACO - Producer Price Index by Commodity: All Commodities
- T10YIE - 10-Year Breakeven Inflation Rate
- U6RATE - Total Unemployed, Plus All Marginally Attached Workers Plus Total Employed Part Time for Economic Reasons
- PAYEMS - All Employees, Total Nonfarm
- CIVPART - Labor Force Participation Rate
- EMRATIO - Employment-Population Ratio
- UNEMPLOY - Unemployed
- CE16OV - Employment Level
- ICSA - Initial Claims
- JTSJOL - Job Openings: Total Nonfarm
- JTSQUR - Quits: Total Nonfarm
- GDPC1 - Real Gross Domestic Product
- A191RL1Q225SBEA - Real Gross Domestic Product: Percent Change from Preceding Period
- INDPRO - Industrial Production: Total Index
- TCU - Capacity Utilization: Total Index
- HOUST - New Privately-Owned Housing Units Started: Total Units
- PERMIT - New Privately-Owned Housing Units Authorized in Permit-Issuing Places: Total Units
- RSAFS - Advance Retail Sales: Retail Trade
- PCE - Personal Consumption Expenditures
- DSPIC96 - Real Disposable Personal Income
- PSAVERT - Personal Saving Rate
- M2SL - M2
- BOPGSTB - U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: Balance
- MSPUS - Median Sales Price of Houses Sold for the United States
- HSN1F - New One Family Houses Sold: United States
- RHORUSQ156N - Homeownership Rate in the United States
- TTLCONS - Total Construction Spending: Total Construction in the United States
- RRVRUSQ156N - Rental Vacancy Rate in the United States
- TOTALSL - Total Consumer Credit Owned and Securitized
- REVOLSL - Revolving Consumer Credit Owned and Securitized
- DRCCLACBS - Delinquency Rate on Credit Card Loans, All Commercial Banks
- GDP - Gross Domestic Product
- GPDI - Gross Private Domestic Investment
- GCE - Government Consumption Expenditures and Gross Investment
- PCEC - Personal Consumption Expenditures
- NETEXP - Net Exports of Goods and Services
- GFDEBTN - Federal Debt: Total Public Debt
- GFDEGDQ188S - Federal Debt: Total Public Debt as Percent of Gross Domestic Product
- FYFSD - Federal Surplus or Deficit
- FGRECPT - Federal Government Current Receipts
- FGEXPND - Federal Government: Current Expenditures
- MANEMP - All Employees, Manufacturing
- USCONS - All Employees, Construction
- USTRADE - All Employees, Retail Trade
- USFIRE - All Employees, Financial Activities
- USGOVT - All Employees, Government
- AWHAETP - Average Weekly Hours of All Employees, Total Private
- DGORDER - Manufacturers' New Orders: Durable Goods
- NEWORDER - Manufacturers' New Orders: Nondefense Capital Goods Excluding Aircraft
- BUSINV - Total Business Inventories
- EXPGS - Exports of Goods and Services
- IMPGS - Imports of Goods and Services
- IR - Import Price Index (End Use): All Commodities
- PPIFIS - Producer Price Index by Commodity: Final Demand
Latest quarter (10-Q)
Latest 10-Q source: 0001490978-26-000037.
Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations together with our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Quarterly Report. Some of the information contained in this discussion and analysis or set forth elsewhere in this Quarterly Report, including information with respect to our plans and strategy for our business and related financing, includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. As a result of many factors, including those factors set forth in Part II, Item 1A. “Risk Factors” of this Quarterly Report, our actual results could differ materially from the results described in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in the following discussion and analysis. For further information regarding our forward-looking statements, see “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” in this Quarterly Report.
Overview
We are transforming the way therapeutics and materials are discovered. Our differentiated, physics-based computational platform enables discovery of high-quality, novel molecules for drug development and materials applications more rapidly and at a lower cost, compared to traditional methods. Our software platform is licensed by biopharmaceutical and industrial companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories around the world. We are applying our computational platform to advance a broad pipeline of drug discovery programs in collaboration with leading biopharmaceutical companies. In addition, we use our computational platform to discover novel molecules for our pipeline of proprietary drug discovery programs, which we are advancing through preclinical and clinical development.
We offer our customers a variety of software solutions that accelerate all stages of molecule discovery, design, and optimization. Since our founding, we have been primarily focused on developing our computational platform, which is capable of predicting critical properties of molecules with a high degree of accuracy, as well as advancing drug discovery programs both with our collaborators and on our own. We have devoted substantially all of our resources to introducing new capabilities and refining our software, conducting research and development activities, recruiting skilled personnel, and providing general and administrative support for these operations.
Over the last decade, we have entered into a number of collaborations with leading biopharmaceutical companies that have provided us with significant revenue and have the potential to produce additional milestone payments, option fees, and future royalties. In 2018, we began to develop a pipeline of proprietary drug discovery programs with the goal of using our platform to produce a portfolio of novel, high value therapeutics.
Financial Overview; Software Revenue and Collaborations
We have funded our operations to date from the sale of our equity securities, including our initial public offering and our follow-on public offering, from sales of our software solutions and from upfront payments, research funding and milestone payments from our drug discovery collaborations, and from distributions on account of, or proceeds from the sale of, our equity stakes in our collaborators.
On April 27, 2026, Eli Lilly and Company, or Lilly, and Ajax Therapeutics, Inc., or Ajax, a company co-founded by us, jointly announced Lilly's planned acquisition of Ajax. Under the terms of the agreement, Ajax shareholders could receive up to $2.3 billion in cash, inclusive of an upfront payment and subsequent payments upon the achievement of certain clinical and regulatory milestones. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions. As of December 31, 2025, we held a 5.8% equity position in Ajax on an issued and outstanding basis.
We currently conduct our operations through two reportable segments: software and drug discovery. The software segment is focused on selling our software to transform drug discovery across the life sciences industry, as well as to customers in materials science industries. The drug discovery segment is focused on generating revenue from a diverse portfolio of preclinical and clinical programs, internally and through collaborations, that have advanced to various stages of discovery and development.
Our software segment generates revenue from software product licenses, hosted software subscriptions, software maintenance, professional services, and contributions. The revenue we generate through our software solutions from each of our customers varies largely depending on the type and number of software licenses our customers purchase from us. The licenses that our customers purchase from us provide them the ability to perform a certain number of calculations used in the design of molecules for drug discovery or materials science. The amount we charge per license depends on the specific software products our customers purchase from us, and the number of licenses needed to perform calculations per
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software product varies. With the exception of certain limited products, the number of licenses a customer requires is typically based on the scale at which they are running our software products and is not based on how many users have access to the software. As customers increase the number of licenses they purchase from us, they will typically be able to run a greater number of simultaneous instances of our products, thereby increasing the number of calculations they will be able to perform in parallel, subject to having enough computational capacity. We deliver our software through either (i) a product license that permits our customers to install the software solution directly on their own in-house hardware and use it for a specified term, or (ii) a subscription that allows our customers to access our cloud-based software solution on their own hardware without taking control of licenses.
Our collaboration agreements typically include upfront consideration, discovery, development, commercial and regulatory milestones, and royalties from future sales of commercialized products. We generate drug discovery revenue through the performance of specified research and development activities under our collaboration agreements and upon the achievement of specified discovery and development milestones, and we have the potential to generate drug discovery revenue from commercial and regulatory milestones, option fees, and royalties under our collaboration agreements. In the future, we may also derive drug discovery revenue from our collaborations from option fees, the achievement of regulatory and commercial milestones, and royalties on commercial drug sales. In addition to revenue from our collaborations, we may also derive drug discovery revenue from collaborating on or out-licensing our proprietary drug discovery programs when we believe it will help maximize the clinical and commercial opportunities for the program.
We are party to an exclusive, worldwide collaboration and license agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, or BMS, pursuant to which we and BMS agreed to collaborate in the discovery, research and development of small molecule compounds for biological targets in the oncology, neurology and immunology therapeutic areas. After mutual agreement on the targets(s) of interest, we are responsible for the discovery of development candidates. Once a development candidate meeting specified criteria for a target has been identified, BMS will be solely responsible for the development, manufacturing and commercialization of such development candidate. We are eligible to receive up to $482.0 million in total milestone payments for the one remaining neurology target currently subject to the collaboration, of which we have recognized $32.0 million as of March 31, 2026, as well as a tiered percentage royalty on net sales of each product commercialized by BMS ranging from mid-single digits to low-double digits, subject to certain specified reductions. See "Collaboration and License Agreements" in Note 3 to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for additional information relating to this agreement.
In September 2022, we entered into a collaboration with Lilly under which we are responsible for the discovery and optimization of small molecule compounds addressing an immunology target. Lilly is responsible for the completion of preclinical development, clinical development and commercialization. Under the terms of the agreement, we received an upfront payment and we are eligible to receive up to $420.0 million in discovery, development and commercial milestone payments for the target. We are also eligible to receive low single- to low double-digit royalties on net sales of any products emerging from the collaboration in all markets. In February 2025, we expanded our research collaboration with Lilly to add an undisclosed target to the collaboration, which was subsequently terminated by Lilly in March 2026 for strategic reasons. The collaboration remains active with respect to the initial target.
In November 2024, we entered into a research collaboration and license agreement with Novartis Pharma AG, or Novartis, pursuant to which we and Novartis agreed to collaborate on the discovery, research and preclinical development of small molecule compounds for targets in certain specified therapeutic areas. The agreement is intended to advance multiple development candidates for development and commercialization by Novartis. Under the terms of the research collaboration and license agreement, Novartis paid us an initial upfront fee of $150.0 million in January 2025 and we are eligible to receive up to $2.272 billion in total milestone payments across the initial programs. Such milestones consist of up to $892.0 million in discovery and development milestones and up to $1.38 billion in commercial milestones. We are also entitled to a tiered percentage royalty on net sales of each product commercialized by Novartis ranging from mid single-digits to low double-digits on products commercialized by Novartis under the agreement, subject to certain specified reductions. No milestone revenue has been recognized as of March 31, 2026. In November 2024, we also entered into an expanded three-year software agreement with Novartis that substantially increases Novartis' access to our computational predictive modeling technology and enterprise informatics platform. See "Collaboration and License Agreements" in Note 3 to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for additional information relating to the research collaboration and license agreement.
We generated revenue of $58.6 million and $59.6 million during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively, representing a year-over-year decrease of 2%. Our net loss for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 was $60.0 million and $59.8 million, respectively.
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Our annual contract value, or ACV, was $28.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, compared to $25.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025. With respect to contracts that have a duration of one year or less, or contracts of more than one year in duration that are billed annually, we define ACV as the contract value billed during the applicable period. For contracts with a duration of more than one year that are billed upfront, ACV in each period represents the total billed contract value divided by the term.
We present ACV as a supplemental operating metric because it provides a consistent measure of the underlying performance of our software business that is not affected by differences in revenue recognition timing across contract types, delivery mo
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Latest 10-K MD&A
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations together with our consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report. Some of the information contained in this discussion and analysis or set forth elsewhere in this Annual Report, including information with respect to our plans and strategy for our business, includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations covers fiscal 2025 and fiscal 2024 items and year-over-year comparisons between fiscal 2025 and fiscal 2024. Discussions of fiscal 2023 items and year-over-year comparisons between fiscal 2024 and fiscal 2023 that are not included in this Form 10-K can be found in "Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in Part II, Item 7 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, that was filed with the SEC on February 26, 2025.
As a result of many factors, including those factors set forth in Part 1, Item 1A. "Risk Factors" of this Annual Report, our actual results could differ materially from the results described in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in the following discussion and analysis. For further information regarding our forward-looking statements, see "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Industry Data" in this Annual Report.
Overview
We are transforming the way therapeutics and materials are discovered. Our differentiated, physics-based computational platform enables discovery of high-quality, novel molecules for drug development and materials applications more rapidly and at a lower cost, compared to traditional methods. Our software platform is licensed by biopharmaceutical and industrial companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories around the world. We are applying our computational platform to advance a broad pipeline of drug discovery programs in collaboration with leading biopharmaceutical companies. In addition, we use our computational platform to discover novel molecules for our pipeline of proprietary drug discovery programs, which we are advancing through preclinical and clinical development.
Since our founding, we have been primarily focused on developing our computational platform, which is capable of predicting critical properties of molecules with a high degree of accuracy, as well as advancing drug discovery programs both with our collaborators and on our own. We have devoted substantially all of our resources to introducing new capabilities and refining our software, conducting research and development activities, recruiting skilled personnel, and providing general and administrative support for these operations.
Over the last decade, we have entered into a number of collaborations with leading biopharmaceutical companies that have provided us with significant revenue and have the potential to produce additional milestone payments, option fees, and future royalties. In 2018, we began to develop a pipeline of proprietary drug discovery programs with the goal of using our platform to produce a portfolio of novel, high value therapeutics.
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Proprietary Drug Discovery Programs
In June 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, cleared our first investigational new drug application, or IND, for our MALT1 inhibitor, which we refer to as SGR-1505. Our ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-1505 is designed as an open-label, multi-center dose escalation trial in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell malignancies. The trial is designed to evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, maximum tolerated dose, maximum administered dose and/or recommended dose of SGR-1505. Backfill cohorts evaluate additional pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, preliminary anti-tumor activity, and safety to support the recommended dose.
In April 2024, the FDA cleared the IND we submitted for our novel Wee1/Myt1 inhibitor, which we refer to as SGR-3515. In July 2024, we initiated dosing in a Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-3515 in patients with advanced solid tumors. The trial is a dose-escalation trial designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability and recommended Phase 2 dose of SGR-3515. Secondary and exploratory objectives of the trial include evaluating the pharmacokinetics and preliminary anti-tumor activity of SGR-3515. We anticipate reporting initial data from the trial in the second quarter of 2026.
In August 2025, we announced the discontinuation of the clinical development program for SGR-2921, our CDC7 inhibitor, which was being evaluated in a Phase 1 dose-escalation clinical trial in patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, or high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes. Despite early evidence of monotherapy activity observed in the Phase 1 clinical trial, based on the profile observed prior to discontinuation, including two emergent events where SGR-2921 was considered to have contributed to two deaths in patients with AML, we determined the path to development as a combination therapy would be difficult to pursue.
Beyond our planned investments to complete our ongoing Phase 1 dose-escalation clinical trials of SGR-1505 and SGR-3515, we do not intend to initiate additional clinical trials or advance our other proprietary preclinical programs into clinical trials independently. We plan to explore strategic partnerships for the SGR-1505 and SGR-3515 programs to advance the development of these programs beyond our ongoing Phase 1 clinical trials. The phasing out of independent clinical development activities and associated cost reductions, together with the restructuring of our operations we announced in May 2025, which is further described below under "—Restructuring," are expected to result in total savings of approximately $70 million and further improve and enhance our operational efficiency.
Initiative with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
In July 2024, we launched an initiative to expand our computational platform to predict toxicity associated with binding to off-target proteins. The goal of this initiative is to develop a computational solution designed to improve the properties of drug development candidates and reduce the risk of development failure associated with binding to off-target proteins, which can be associated with serious side effects. The project is being funded initially by $19.5 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. We continue to advance our predictive toxicology initiative and have made the beta version available to customers, which encompasses approximately 50 representative kinases in addition to multiple key anti-targets. We expect to launch our predictive toxicology solution commercially and make it available more broadly to our customers during 2026.
Financial Overview; Software Revenue and Collaborations
We have funded our operations to date principally from the sale of our equity securities, including our initial public offering and our follow-on public offering, and to a lesser extent, from sales of our software solutions and from upfront payments, research funding and milestone payments from our drug discovery collaborations, and from distributions on account of, or proceeds from the sale of, our equity stakes in our collaborators. In 2023, on account of our equity stake in Nimbus Therapeutics, LLC, or Nimbus, we received an aggregate of $147.2 million in cash distributions from Nimbus in connection with Takeda’s acquisition of Nimbus Lakshmi, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nimbus, and its TYK2 inhibitor NDI-034858.
On August 15, 2024, Morphic Holding, Inc., or Morphic, one of our drug discovery collaborators and co-founded companies, was acquired by Eli Lilly and Company, or Lilly, for $57.00 per share, or approximately $3.2 billion. In connection with the acquisition, we received $47.6 million for the 834,968 shares of Morphic we owned. We are also entitled to low single-digit royalties on our clinical development programs under our collaboration agreement with Morphic, including MORF-057.
We currently conduct our operations through two reportable segments: software and drug discovery. The software segment is focused on selling our software to transform drug discovery across the life sciences industry, as well as to
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customers in materials science industries. The drug discovery segment is focused on generating revenue from a diverse portfolio of preclinical and clinical programs, internally and through collaborations, that have advanced to various stages of discovery and development.
Our software segment generates revenue from software product licenses, hosted software subscriptions, software maintenance, professional services, and contributions. The revenue we generate through our software solutions from each of our customers varies largely depending on the type and number of software licenses our customers purchase from us. The licenses that our customers purchase from us provide them the ability to perform a certain number of calculations used in the design of molecules for drug discovery or materials science. The amount we charge per license depends on the specific software products our customers purchase from us, and the number of licenses needed to perform calculations per software product varies. With the exception of certain limited products, the number of licenses a customer requires is typically based on the scale at which they are running our software products and is not based on how many users have access to the software. As customers increase the number of licenses they purchase from us, they will typically be able to run a greater number of simultaneous instances of our products, thereby increasing the number of calculations they will be able to perform in parallel, subject to having enough computational capacity. We deliver our software through either (i) a product license that permits our customers to install the software solution directly on their own in-house hardware and use it for a specified term, or (ii) a subscription that allows our customers to access our cloud-based software solution on their own hardware without taking control of licenses.
Our collaboration agreements typically include upfront consideration, discovery, development, commercial and regulatory milestones, and royalties from future sales of commercialized products. We generate drug discovery revenue through the performance of specified research and development activities under our collaboration agreements and upon the achievement of specified discovery and development milestones, and we have the potential to generate drug discovery revenue from commercial and regulatory milestones, option fees, and royalties under our collaboration agreements. In the future, we may also derive drug discovery revenue from our collaborations from option fees, the achievement of regulatory and commercial milestones, and royalties on commercial drug sales. In addition to revenue from our collaborations, we may also derive drug discovery revenue from collaborating on or out-licensing our proprietary drug discovery programs when we believe it will help maximize the clinical and commercial opportunities for the program.
We are party to an exclusive, worldwide collaboration and license agreement with BMS, pursuant to which we and BMS agreed to collaborate in the discovery, research and development of small molecule compounds for biological targets in the oncology, neurology and immunology therapeutic areas. After mutual agreement on the targets(s) of interest, we are responsible for the discovery of development candidates. Once a development candidate meeting specified criteria for a target has been identified, BMS will be solely responsible for the development, manufacturing and commercialization of such development candidate. We are eligible to receive up to $482.0 million in total milestone payments for the one remaining neurology target currently subject to the collaboration, of which we have recognized $32.0 million as of December 31, 2025, as well as a tiered percentage royalty on net sales of each product commercialized by BMS ranging from mid-single digits to low-double digits, subject to certain specified reductions. See "Collaboration and License Agreements" in Note 3 to our consolidated financial statements for additional information relating to this agreement.
In September 2022, we entered into a collaboration with Lilly under which we are responsible for the discovery and optimization of small molecule compounds addressing an immunology target. Lilly will be responsible for the completion of preclinical development, clinical development and commercialization. Under the terms of the agreement, we received an upfront payment and we are eligible to receive up to $420.0 million in discovery, development and commercial milestone payments. We are also eligible to receive low single- to low double-digit royalties on net sales of any products emerging from the collaboration in all markets. In February 2025, we expanded our research collaboration with Lilly to add an undisclosed target to the collaboration. The terms of the expanded collaboration with respect to the additional target are similar to the terms for the existing target.
In November 2024, we entered into a research collaboration and license agreement with Novartis Pharma AG, or Novartis, pursuant to which we and Novartis agreed to collaborate on the discovery, research and preclinical development of small molecule compounds for targets in certain specified therapeutic areas. The agreement is intended to advance multiple development candidates for development and commercialization by Novartis. Under the terms of the research collaboration and license agreement, Novartis paid us an initial upfront fee of $150.0 million in January 2025 and we are eligible to receive up to $2.272 billion in total milestone payments across the initial programs. Such milestones consist of up to $892.0 million in discovery and development milestones and up to $1.38 billion in commercial milestones. We are also entitled to a tiered percentage royalty on net sales of each product commercialized by Novartis ranging from mid single-digits to low double-digits on products commercialized by Novartis under the agreement, subject to certain specified
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reductions. No milestone revenue has been recognized as of December 31, 2025. In November 2024, we also entered into an expanded three-year software agreement with Novartis that substantially increases Novartis' access to our computational predictive modeling technology and enterprise informatics platform. See "Collaboration and License Agreements" in Note 3 to our consolidated financial statements for additional information relating to the research collaboration and license agreement.
For the year ended December 31, 2025, we generated total revenue of $255.9 million and had a net loss of $103.3 million.
Restructuring
On May 19, 2025, we restructured our operations to reduce our workforce and implemented focused cost reductions across the company to improve cash burn rate and enhance operational efficiency. The reduction in workforce has decreased overall headcount by approximately 60 employees, which represented approximately 7% of full-time employees as of May 19, 2025.
We incurred approximately $3 million in charges in connection with the restructuring, consisting of severance payments, employee benefits, and related costs, substantially all of which we recognized during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025.
The reduction in workforce and cost reductions being implemented are expected to reduce operating expenses by approximately $30 million on an annualized basis. Approximately half of the estimated cost savings are expected to be a result of the reduction in overall headcount.
Impact of Tariffs
The U.S. administration has announced or imposed a series of tariffs on U.S. trading partners. In response, several countries have threatened or imposed retaliatory measures. We have not experienced, and do not currently expect to experience, any direct impact from these tariffs and retaliatory measures in the near term. However, the full extent of the future impact of these and other threatened measures remains uncertain. We continue to monitor these tariffs and retaliatory measures and their possible effects on our business, including as to how they may affect our customers in the industries in which we operate, including the pharmaceutical industry.
Change in Key Operating Metrics
During fiscal 2025, we revised the key operating metrics used by management to evaluate business performance. In prior periods, we disclosed certain metrics, such as active customers and ACV cohorts that did not differentiate by customer demographics or industry, which reflected how the business was historically managed and evaluated.
As our business evolved, management determined that these previously disclosed metrics were no longer the primary metrics used to manage the business. Accordingly, we replaced these prior metrics with a revised set of key operating metrics that management now primarily uses to assess operating performance, customer behavior, and growth trends. As the scale and diversity of our customer base have increased, aggregate metrics that do not differentiate by customer type or industry have become less useful in assessing underlying performance and trends. These distinctions are particularly relevant given our increased penetration with large pharmaceutical customers, the differing procurement and usage characteristics of commercial, government, and academic customers, and our ongoing transition toward hosted software arrangements.
The revised key operating metrics include ACV by certain industries and customer cohorts. These cohorts include the following:
Industry cohorts:
•Top 20 pharma. This cohort consists of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies, as measured by their 2024 revenue, which purchase our computational software solutions for drug discovery.
•Rest of life sciences. This cohort includes customers purchasing our computational software solutions for drug discovery, excluding the top 20 pharma cohort.
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•Materials. This cohort includes customers purchasing our computational software solutions for materials design.
•Contribution. This cohort includes customers from which we derive contribution revenue, which for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, consisted solely of Gates Ventures, LLC and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. We present this ACV separately because it relates to grant agreements accounted for as non-exchange contributions, rather than commercial software contracts.
Customer cohorts:
•Commercial. This cohort includes all of our customers purchasing our computational software solutions for commercial use, excluding government and academic institutions and customers from which we derive contribution revenue.
•Government and academic. This cohort includes U.S. federal, state, local and international government entities, as well as universities, medical centers, and non-profit research institutions.
•Contribution. This cohort includes customers from which we derive contribution revenue, which for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, consisted solely of Gates Ventures, LLC and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. We present this ACV separately because it relates to grant agreements accounted for as non-exchange contributions, rather than commercial software contracts.
The operating metrics for the cohorts described above are not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, or U.S. GAAP, and do not correspond to our reportable segments or the allocation of costs for U.S. GAAP purposes. These metrics allow management to better understand differences in sales cycles, contract duration, deployment models, renewal behavior, and expansion opportunities among customer and industry groups, supplementing but not replacing our U.S. GAAP results.
We believe that tracking ACV by cohort provides greater transparency and insight into the drivers of our performance and more accurately reflects how management currently evaluates and views business performance. For customers who purchase our computational software solutions for both drug discovery and materials design, management allocates ACV between the applicable life sciences industry cohort (top 20 pharma or rest of life sciences) and the materials cohort based on internal judgment.
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Key Factors Affecting Our Performance
Ability to drive additional growth from our software solutions from existing commercial customers
Our ability to expand within our customer base is demonstrated by the increasing average ACV from our commercial customers with an ACV of over $1.0 million. For example, for the year ended December 31, 2025, we had 27 commercial customers with an ACV of at least $1.0 million compared to 29 such customers for the year ended December 31, 2024. The average ACV per commercial customer with an ACV of over $1.0 million grew to $3.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to $3.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2024. Two of the 29 customers with an ACV of at least $1.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2024 were acquired prior to the end of 2025.
With respect to contracts that have a duration of one year or less, or contracts of more than one year in duration that are billed annually, we define ACV as the contract value billed during the applicable period. For contracts with a duration of more than one year that are billed upfront, ACV in each period represents the total billed contract value divided by the term. ACV should be viewed independently of revenue and does not represent revenue calculated in accordance with U.S. GAAP on an annualized basis, as it is an operating metric that can be impacted by contract execution start and end dates and renewal rates. ACV is not intended to be a replacement for, or forecast of, revenue. Our ACV was $198.5 million and $190.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
The figures below show our ACV for each of the past two fiscal years based on our customer and industry cohorts:
Our top 20 pharma industry cohort had an ACV of $80.8 million in 2025 compared to $70.0 million in 2024, and our commercial customer cohort had an ACV of $177.4 million in 2025 compared to $165.8 million in 2024. The ACV that we generate through our software solutions from each of our customers varies depending on the number of licenses for each software solution that each customer purchases from us. Accordingly, we work with our customers to improve their experience and increase the utility of our platform in order to expand the scale at which they deploy our platform in their business. Biopharmaceutical companies are increasingly adopting our software at a larger scale, and we anticipate that this scaling-up will drive future growth.
Ability to retain our customer base for our software solutions
Another important driver of our performance is our ability to retain our customer base. We believe our sales and marketing approach and the quality of our software solutions result in high retention with our commercial customers. For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, our gross dollar retention rate for our commercial customers was 96%. We calculate year-over-year gross dollar retention rate for commercial customers by comparing the ACV from the same cohort of commercial customers across two periods, excluding the effect of any increases or expansions of ACV from any customers within the cohort. This metric also excludes ACV attributable to new commercial customers added during the period. We calculate year-over-year gross dollar retention for this commercial cohort by starting with the prior year's ACV for our commercial customers. We then subtract the amount of decreases in renewals, either as a result of decreased usage
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of our software or lost business, which we refer to as churn. We then divide the resulting number by the prior year's ACV for our commercial customers to arrive at the gross dollar retention rate for our commercial customers. We use gross dollar retention rate to measure our ability to retain existing business from our customer base and to assess the impact of churn, without the effect of expansion activity. This metric highlights the stability and stickiness of our commercial customer relationships.
In addition, our net dollar retention rate for our commercial customers was 100% for the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to 113% for the year ended December 31, 2024. We calculate year-over-year net dollar retention rate by comparing the ACV from the same cohort of commercial customers across two periods. This metric also excludes ACV attributable to new commercial customers added during the period. We calculate year-over-year net dollar retention for this commercial cohort by starting with the prior year's ACV for our commercial customers. We then add the amount of any increase in renewals or expansions of ACV from any customers within the cohort, which we refer to as upsells, and then subtract the churn. We then divide the resulting number by the prior year's ACV for our commercial customers to arrive at the net dollar retention rate for our commercial customers. We use net dollar retention rate to evaluate growth within our existing commercial customer base, including the effect of upsells and churns.
For both our gross dollar retention rate and net dollar retention rate, we exclude from the calculation commercial customers that were acquired by other companies during the applicable period, as these events are outside of our control, may not reflect the underlying demand for our software solutions, and enhance comparability between periods. Together, gross and net dollar retention rates provide insight into both customer retention and our ability to drive incremental growth from current customers.
Advancement of our collaborative programs
We have entered into a number of collaborations with leading biopharmaceutical companies to advance drug discovery. We will seek to enter into additional collaboration agreements, driven by the synergies we expect to achieve between our platform and the capabilities and expertise of our potential collaborators. We believe that our collaborations will be a significant driver of value for us in the form of equity stakes, research fees, preclinical, clinical, and commercial milestone payments, and option fees, as well as royalties on any potential future sales of products, if approved. We continue to work with our current collaborators to advance existing programs through discovery research stages and initiate additional programs. However, we do not generally exercise control over the development programs of our collaborators and depend on our collaborators' decisions with respect to clinical development and commercialization. Our ability to continue to derive value from our collaborations will be driven by our capability to make progress in these programs, whether our collaborators successfully advance such programs beyond the discovery stage, and the strategic priorities of our collaboration partners. We track the aggregate number of collaborative programs for which we are eligible to receive any amount of royalties on sales and as of December 31, 2025, we had an aggregate of 16 collaborative programs for which we are eligible to receive future royalties compared to 13 collaborative programs as of December 31, 2024.
Ability to progress and expand our pipeline of proprietary drug discovery programs
We are advancing our pipeline of proprietary programs through preclinical and clinical development. Our initial programs were focused on discovering and developing inhibitors for targets in DNA damage response pathways and genetically defined cancers. Since then, we have expanded into other therapeutic areas, including immunology and neurology. We have initiated dosing in a Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-1505 in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell malignancies and a Phase 1 clinical trial for SGR-3515 in patients with advanced solid tumors. We also continue to advance new programs where we can leverage our computational platform to discover novel molecules, including SGR-6016, our brain-penetrant NLRP3 inhibitor development candidate. As we progress and expand our pipeline of proprietary programs, we will strategically evaluate on a program-by-program basis advancing them into and through preclinical development ourselves, entering into collaborations to co-develop them with leading industry partners, or out-licensing them to maximize their development, clinical and commercial potential.
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Components of Results of Operations
Software Products and Services Revenue
Our software business generates revenue from five sources: (i) on-premise software license fees, (ii) hosted software subscription fees, (iii) software maintenance fees, (iv) professional services fees, and (v) contributions.
On-premise software. Our on-premise software license arrangements grant customers the right to use our software on their own in-house servers or their own cloud instances for a specified term, typically for one year, though in recent years, we have entered into a small number of large multi-year on-premise software license agreements. We recognize revenue for on-premise software license fees upfront, either upon transfer of control of the license or the effective date of the agreement, whichever is later.
Hosted software. Hosted software revenue consists primarily of fees to provide our customers with hosted licenses, which allows these customers to access our cloud-based software solution on their own hardware without taking control of the licenses, and is recognized ratably over the term of the arrangement, which is typically one year, though in recent years, we have entered into a small number of large multi-year hosted software license agreements. When a customer enters into a hosted arrangement for which revenue is recognized over time, the amount paid upfront that is not recognized in the current period is included in deferred revenue in our statement of financial position until the period in which it is recognized.
We have accelerated our efforts to transition customers from on-premise software arrangements to hosted software contracts. As a result of this transition, we expect future quarterly and annual revenue trends to be impacted, as revenue associated with hosted software arrangements is generally recognized over the term of the contract, rather than at a point in time, and may differ in timing and pattern from revenue recognized under on-premise software arrangements. While this transition has not had a material impact on our historical results to date, it is expected to affect the timing and mix of revenue recognition in future periods and as a result, we expect revenue to decline in the near-term as the transition progresses.
Software maintenance. Software maintenance includes technical support, updates, and upgrades related to our on-premise software licenses. Software maintenance revenue is recognized ratably over the term of the arrangement. Software maintenance activities are performed in connection with the use of our on-premise software, and may fluctuate from period to period.
Professional services. Professional services include training, technical setup, installation or assisting customers with modeling services, where we use our software to perform tasks such as virtual screening on behalf of our customers. These services are generally not related to the core functionality of our software and are recognized as revenue when resources are consumed. Since each professional services agreement represents a unique, ad hoc engagement, professional services revenue may fluctuate from period to period.
Software contribution revenue. Software contribution revenue consists of funds received under non-reciprocal agreements, as amended, with Gates Ventures, LLC and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The agreement with Gates Ventures, LLC was originally entered into in June 2020 and further extended through August 13, 2026. The agreement is an unconditional non-exchange contribution without restrictions. Revenue is recognized annually, when invoiced, in accordance with Accounting Standard Codification, or ASC, Topic 958, Not-for-Profit Entities, or Topic 958, as the agreement is not an exchange transaction.
In July 2024, we entered into a one-year agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, that was further extended through April 2026, to initially fund our initiative to accelerate the expansion of our computational platform to predict toxicity associated with binding to off-target proteins. Revenue is recognized as costs are incurred and conditions are met in accordance with Topic 958.
Drug Discovery Revenue
Drug discovery services. We generate drug discovery revenue through the performance of specified research and development activities under our collaboration agreements and upon the achievement of discovery and development milestones, and we have the potential to generate drug discovery revenue from commercial and regulatory milestones, option fees, and royalties under our collaboration agreements. The majority of our current collaborations are in the discovery and preclinical development stages. Milestone payments typically increase in magnitude as a program advances.
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In addition to revenue from our collaborations, we may also derive drug discovery revenue from out-licensing our proprietary drug discovery programs when we believe it will help maximize the development, clinical and commercial potential of the program. Beyond our planned investments to complete our ongoing Phase 1 dose-escalation clinical trials of SGR-1505 and SGR-3515, we do not intend to initiate additional clinical trials or advance our other proprietary preclinical programs into clinical trials independently. Overall, we expect that our drug discovery revenue will fluctuate from period to period due to the inherently uncertain nature of the timing of milestone achievements and our dependence on the program decisions of our collaborators.
Drug discovery contribution revenue. Contribution revenue primarily consists of funds received under agreements with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on a cost reimbursement basis, to perform services aimed at accelerating drug discovery in women’s health. Revenue is recognized as costs are incurred and conditions are met in accordance with Topic 958.
Cost of Revenues
Software products and services. Cost of revenues for software includes personnel-related expenses (comprised of salaries, benefits, and stock-based compensation) for employees directly involved in the development and delivery of software solutions, maintenance and professional services, royalties paid for products sold and services performed using third-party licensed software functionality, and allocated overhead (facilities and information technology support) costs. Pursuant to various third-party arrangements, we license technology that is used in our software. These arrangements require us to pay royalties based on sales volume, and such royalty payments represented 3.5% of software revenues in both the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.
Drug discovery. Costs of revenue for drug discovery includes personnel-related expenses and costs of third-party contract research organizations, or CROs, that support discovery activities in our collaborations, royalties paid for services performed using third-party licensed software functionality, allocated compute capacity and overhead costs. While we have incurred costs associated with discovery efforts since late 2017, we have recognized and expect to continue to recognize revenues in the future if and when milestones are considered probable of achievement and there is not a risk of significant revenue reversal, or when they are achieved. Generally, drug discovery costs of revenue for collaborations are incurred in advance of the revenue milestone achievement.
Royalty payments to third-parties represented 2.4% and 9.5% of drug discovery revenues in the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. We expect our drug discovery costs of revenue to fluctuate from period to period depending on the number and mix of collaborative and proprietary programs and their respective stages of development.
Gross Profit and Gross Margin
Gross profit represents revenue less cost of revenues. Gross margin is gross profit expressed as a percentage of revenue. Our software products and services gross margin may fluctuate from period to period as our revenue fluctuates, and as a result of changes in sales mix between on-premise and hosted software solutions due to timing of recognition. For example, the cost of royalties due for sales of our hosted software arrangements are recognized upfront, whereas the associated hosted software revenue for these arrangements is recognized over the term of the underlying agreement.
While the gross margin of our drug discovery business will fluctuate significantly from period to period depending on factors such as the timing of recognition of milestones, the number and mix of collaborative programs, and their respective stages of development, we expect the gross margins to generally trend higher over time as more programs advance to later stages of development, the milestones increase in size and our ongoing research and development obligations to such programs decline in cost.
Research and Development Expense
Research and development expense accounts for a significant portion of our operating expenses. We recognize research and development expense as incurred. Research and development expense consists of drug discovery and development program costs and costs incurred for continuous development of the technology and science that supports our computational platform, primarily:
•personnel-related expenses, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation for employees engaged in research and development functions;
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•expenses incurred under agreements with third-party CROs and consultants involved in our proprietary drug discovery programs; and
•allocated compute capacity on our proprietary drug discovery programs and overhead (facilities and information technology support) costs.
We expect our research and development expense to stabilize in regards to our investment in activities related to discovery and development of our proprietary drug discovery programs, in advancing our computational platform, and in hiring additional personnel directly involved in such efforts. The amount to which our research and development expense may fluctuate in the future will also be dependent on our development plans for our proprietary drug discovery programs, including the timing of any partnering, collaboration or out-licensing decisions. At this time, we do not know, nor can we reasonably estimate, the nature, timing, or costs of the efforts that will be necessary to complete the development of any of our proprietary drug discovery programs.
Sales and Marketing Expense
Sales and marketing expense consists primarily of personnel-related costs for our sales and marketing staff and application scientists supporting our sales efforts, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation. Other sales and marketing costs include promotional events that promote and expand knowledge of our company and platform, including industry conferences and events and our annual user group meetings in the United States and Europe, advertising, and allocated overhead costs. Due to the inherent scientific complexity of our software solutions, a high level of scientific expertise is needed to support our sales and marketing efforts. We plan to make focused investments in sales and marketing over the foreseeable future to foster the growth of our business as we aim to expand software sales to existing customers and increase our customer base.
General and Administrative Expense
General and administrative expense consists of personnel-related expenses associated with our executive, legal, finance, human resources, information technology, and other administrative functions, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation. General and administrative expense also includes professional fees for external legal, accounting and other consulting services, allocated overhead costs, and other general operating expenses.
We expect to continue to incur additional expenses as a result of operating as a public company, including costs to comply with the rules and regulations applicable to companies listed on a U.S. securities exchange and costs related to compliance and reporting obligations pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. In addition, as a public company, we expect to continue to incur increased expenses such as insurance and professional services. As a result, we expect the dollar amount of our general and administrative expense to increase for the foreseeable future.
Gain (Loss) on Equity Investments
Gain (loss) on equity investments consists of realized gains in the form of cash distributions from our equity investments.
Change in Fair Value of Equity Investments
Fair value gains and losses consist of adjustments to the fair value of our equity investments, which may include Nimbus, Structure Therapeutics, Inc. or Structure Therapeutics, and Morphic. We remeasure our investments at each period end.
We expect that fair value gains and losses will fluctuate significantly in future periods.
Other Income
Other income consists of interest earned on our cash equivalents and marketable securities, interest expense, and transactional foreign exchange gains and losses.
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Income Tax Expense
Income tax expense consists of U.S. federal and state income taxes and income taxes in certain foreign jurisdictions in which we conduct business. We maintain a full valuation allowance on our federal and state deferred tax assets as we have concluded that it is not more likely than not that the deferred tax assets will be realized.
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Results of Operations
Comparison of the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024
The following table summarizes our results of operations data for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024:
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| 2025 | 2024 | $ | % | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||
| Revenues: | |||||||||||||
| Software products and services | $ | 199,500 | $ | 180,365 | $ | 19,135 | 11% | ||||||
| Drug discovery | 56,369 | 27,174 | 29,195 | 107% | |||||||||
| Total revenues | 255,869 | 207,539 | 48,330 | 23% | |||||||||
| Cost of revenues: | |||||||||||||
| Software products and services | 51,001 | 36,900 | 14,101 | 38% | |||||||||
| Drug discovery | 62,254 | 38,556 | 23,698 | 61% | |||||||||
| Total cost of revenues | 113,255 | 75,456 | 37,799 | 50% | |||||||||
| Gross profit | 142,614 | 132,083 | 10,531 | 8% | |||||||||
| Operating expenses: | |||||||||||||
| Research and development | 173,138 | 201,785 | (28,647) | (14)% | |||||||||
| Sales and marketing | 40,963 | 39,917 | 1,046 | 3% | |||||||||
| General and administrative | 95,409 | 99,677 | (4,268) | (4)% | |||||||||
| Total operating expenses | 309,510 | 341,379 | (31,869) | (9)% | |||||||||
| Loss from operations | (166,896) | (209,296) | 42,400 | (20)% | |||||||||
| Other income: | |||||||||||||
| Gain (loss) on equity investments | — | — | — | N/M | |||||||||
| Change in fair value of equity investments | 48,174 | 5,683 | 42,491 | N/M | |||||||||
| Other income | 16,396 | 17,902 | (1,506) | N/M | |||||||||
| Total other income | 64,570 | 23,585 | 40,985 | N/M | |||||||||
| Loss before income taxes | (102,326) | (185,711) | 83,385 | N/M | |||||||||
| Income tax expense | 939 | 1,412 | (473) | N/M | |||||||||
| Net loss | $ | (103,265) | $ | (187,123) | $ | 83,858 | N/M |
N/M – not meaningful
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| Software | |||||||||||||
| On-premise software | $ | 101,448 | $ | 104,020 | $ | (2,572) | (2)% | ||||||
| Hosted software | 45,123 | 35,253 | 9,870 | 28% | |||||||||
| Software maintenance | 27,293 | 23,279 | 4,014 | 17% | |||||||||
| Professional services | 9,648 | 9,797 | (149) | (2)% | |||||||||
| Software contribution | 15,988 | 8,016 | 7,972 | 99% | |||||||||
| Total software products and services | 199,500 | 180,365 | 19,135 | 11% | |||||||||
| Drug discovery | |||||||||||||
| Drug discovery services | 54,760 | 25,143 | 29,617 | 118% | |||||||||
| Drug discovery contribution | 1,609 | 2,031 | (422) | (21)% | |||||||||
| Total drug discovery | 56,369 | 27,174 | 29,195 | 107% | |||||||||
| Total revenues | $ | 255,869 | $ | 207,539 | $ | 48,330 | 23% |
Software Products and Services Revenue
On-premise software. The decrease in revenues for on-premise software during the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 was primarily attributable to the timing and size of multi-year customer contracts with upfront revenue recognition in the comparable period versus the current period.
Hosted software. The increase in revenues for hosted software during the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 was primarily due to customers switching from on premise to hosted software purchases, as well as increased spend from existing hosted customers and growth in new customers purchasing hosted software subscriptions, for which revenue is recognized ratably over the period of the contract.
Software maintenance. The increase in revenues for software maintenance during the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 was primarily due to increased spend from existing customers and longer renewal periods.
Professional services. Professional services revenues remained consistent during the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 primarily due to the progress and completion of technology and modeling service projects.
Software contribution revenue. The increase in software contribution revenues during the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 was due to the agreements with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation entered into during the year ended December 31, 2024, aimed to accelerate the expansion of our computational software platform, and the extension of the agreement with Gates Ventures, LLC.
Drug Discovery Revenue
Drug discovery services. The increase in revenues for drug discovery services during the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 was primarily due to the Novartis collaboration services that began in November 2024 and the progress of new and existing collaborations.
Drug discovery contribution revenue. The decrease in drug discovery contribution revenue during the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 was due to fluctuation in allotted funds spent under an agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aimed at accelerating drug discovery in women’s health, which began in November 2021.
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Cost of Revenues
| Year Ended December 31, | Change | ||||||||||||
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| 2025 | 2024 | $ | % | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||
| Cost of revenues: | |||||||||||||
| Software products and services | $ | 51,001 | $ | 36,900 | $ | 14,101 | 38% | ||||||
| Gross margin | 74 | % | 80 | % | |||||||||
| Drug discovery | 62,254 | 38,556 | 23,698 | 61% |
Software products and services. The increase in cost of revenues for software products and services during the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 was attributable to increases of approximately $5.0 million in third-party CRO costs related to development, approximately $4.9 million in personnel-related expense, approximately $3.4 million in cloud computing expense, and approximately $0.8 million in royalty expense.
Software products and services gross margin. The decrease in software gross margin during the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 was primarily due to an increase in expenses related to our agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate the expansion of our computational software platform, partially offset by an increase in revenue.
Drug discovery. The increase in cost of revenues for drug discovery during the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 was attributable to increases of approximately $13.2 million in third-party CRO costs associated with the expansion and progression of collaborative programs, approximately $7.3 million in personnel-related expense due to proprietary programs moving to partnered programs, approximately $2.4 million in cloud computing expense, and approximately $2.0 million in other expenses, partially offset by a decrease of approximately $1.2 million in royalty expense.
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Research and Development Expense
A significant portion of our research and development costs have been external preclinical and clinical CRO costs, which we track on a program-by-program basis related to a product candidate, once the candidate has been identified. Our internal research and development costs are primarily personnel-related costs, rent expense, and other indirect costs and are not tracked on a program-by-program basis. All other research and development costs are related to non-program related costs. The following table summarizes our research and development expense for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024:
| Year Ended December 31, | Change | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | $ | % | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||
| External costs by program: | |||||||||||||
| SGR-1505 | $ | 13,125 | $ | 10,693 | $ | 2,432 | 23% | ||||||
| SGR-2921(1) | 7,968 | 10,290 | (2,322) | (23)% | |||||||||
| SGR-3515 | 7,196 | 5,930 | 1,266 | 21% | |||||||||
| Other early development candidates and unallocated costs | 20,964 | 32,371 | (11,407) | (35)% | |||||||||
| Total external costs for programs in preclinical and clinical development | 49,253 | 59,284 | (10,031) | (17)% | |||||||||
| Internal costs for discovery, preclinical and clinical development: | |||||||||||||
| Employee compensation and benefits | 32,374 | 41,262 | (8,888) | (22)% | |||||||||
| Facility and other | 2,221 | 2,233 | (12) | (1)% | |||||||||
| Total internal costs | 34,595 | 43,495 | (8,900) | (20)% | |||||||||
| All other research and development | 89,290 | 99,006 | (9,716) | (10)% | |||||||||
| Total research and development expense | $ | 173,138 | $ | 201,785 | $ | (28,647) | (14)% |
(1)The development of SGR-2921 was discontinued in August 2025.
The decrease in external costs of $10.0 million during the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 was primarily attributable to decreases in other external research costs to support our early-stage product candidates due to the timing of work performed, as well as a decrease in costs for SGR-2921 which was discontinued in August 2025, partially offset by an increase in costs associated with the ongoing Phase 1 clinical trials and other development activities for SGR-1505 and SGR-3515.
The decrease in internal costs for programs in discovery, preclinical and clinical development of $8.9 million during the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 was primarily attributable to a decrease in personnel-related expense and rent expense.
The decrease in all other research and development expense during the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 was attributable to decreases of approximately $4.8 million in personnel-related expense, approximately $1.9 million in cloud computing expense, approximately $1.1 million related to office rent, approximately $0.8 million related to professional services, approximately $0.6 million in travel and entertainment expense, and approximately $0.5 million in other expenses.
Sales and Marketing Expense
| Year Ended December 31, | Change | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | $ | % | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | $ | 40,963 | $ | 39,917 | $ | 1,046 | 3% |
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The increase in sales and marketing expense during the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 was attributable to increases of approximately $1.0 million in personnel-related expense, approximately $0.1 million in cloud computing expense, and approximately $0.1 million in other expense, partially offset by a decrease of approximately $0.2 million in travel and entertainment expense.
General and Administrative Expense
| Year Ended December 31, | Change | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | $ | % | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||
| General and administrative | $ | 95,409 | $ | 99,677 | $ | (4,268) | (4)% |
The decrease in general and administrative expense during the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 was attributable to decreases of approximately $4.3 million of personnel-related expense, approximately $0.5 million related to royalties, approximately $0.3 million in travel and entertainment expense, and approximately $0.1 million in other expenses, partially offset by increases of approximately $0.6 million in professional services and approximately $0.3 million in cloud computing expense.
Gain (Loss) on Equity Investments
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
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| 2025 | 2024 | Change | ||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||
| Gain (loss) on equity investments | $ | — | $ | — | $ | — |
There was no gain or loss on equity investments during the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.
Change in Fair Value of Equity Investments
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | Change | ||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||
| Change in fair value of equity investments | $ | 48,174 | $ | 5,683 | $ | 42,491 |
The change in fair value of equity investments during the year ended December 31, 2025 was due to a mark-to-market gain on our investment in Structure Therapeutics of $48.2 million. This consisted of a mark-to-market gain of approximately $7.5 million on the portion of the investment sold during the period and a market-to-market gain of approximately $40.7 million on the portion of the investment held as of December 31, 2025. The change in fair value of equity investments during the year ended December 31, 2024 was primarily due to an unrealized gain on our investment in Morphic of $23.5 million, partially offset by an unrealized loss on our investment in Structure Therapeutics of $18.1 million.
Other Income
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | Change | ||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||
| Other income | $ | 16,396 | $ | 17,902 | $ | (1,506) |
The decrease in other income during the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 was primarily attributable to decreases of approximately $2.1 million in interest income, partially offset by an increase of approximately $0.6 million primarily related to favorable foreign currency fluctuations.
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Income Tax Expense
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | Change | ||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||
| Income tax expense | $ | 939 | $ | 1,412 | $ | (473) |
Income tax expense for the year ended December 31, 2025 represents state income tax obligations and taxes in foreign jurisdictions for which we conduct business. Income tax expense for the year ended December 31, 2024 represents certain state income tax obligations and taxes in foreign jurisdictions for which we conduct business. As of December 31, 2025, we have a full valuation allowance on our U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets.
At December 31, 2025, we had federal and state net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $208.5 million and $119.3 million, respectively. The state net operating loss carryforwards will expire between 2025 and 2055, if not utilized. The post-2017 federal net operating loss carryforwards are limited to 80% of taxable income generated in a given year and carry forward indefinitely. As of December 31, 2025, we had federal orphan drug credits and federal research and development tax credit carryforwards of approximately $44.0 million and various state tax credit carryforwards of approximately $4.7 million. These carryforwards will expire between 2033 and 2045, if not utilized.
As required by ASC Topic 740, Income Taxes, our management has evaluated the positive and negative evidence bearing upon the realizability of our deferred tax assets, which are composed principally of net operating loss carryforwards and research and development credit carryforwards. Management has determined that it is more likely than not that we will not realize the benefits of our federal and state deferred tax assets and, as a result, a valuation allowance of $211.9 million and $177.2 million has been established at December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The change in the valuation allowance for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 was $34.7 million and $41.2 million, respectively. We recorded income tax expense of $0.9 million and $1.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
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Quarterly Results of Operations
The following tables summarize our selected unaudited quarterly results of operations data for each of the eight quarters in the period ended December 31, 2025. The information for each of these quarters has been prepared on the same basis as our audited annual consolidated financial statements and reflect, in the opinion of management, all adjustments of a normal, recurring nature that are necessary for the fair statement of the results of operations for these periods. This data should be read in conjunction with our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report. Historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full fiscal year or any other period.
| Three Months Ended | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2025 | 2025 | 2025 | 2024 | 2024 | 2024 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services | $ | 69,282 | $ | 40,858 | $ | 40,544 | $ | 48,816 | $ | 79,662 | $ | 31,884 | $ | 35,404 | $ | 33,415 | ||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | 17,953 | 13,466 | 14,215 | 10,735 | 8,655 | 3,406 | 11,930 | 3,183 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total revenues | 87,235 | 54,324 | 54,759 | 59,551 | 88,317 | 35,290 | 47,334 | 36,598 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services(1) | 13,339 | 11,111 | 13,029 | 13,522 | 13,278 | 8,479 | 7,167 | 7,976 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery(1) | 16,603 | 15,174 | 15,572 | 14,905 | 10,909 | 9,083 | 8,832 | 9,732 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total cost of revenues | 29,942 | 26,285 | 28,601 | 28,427 | 24,187 | 17,562 | 15,999 | 17,708 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gross profit | 57,293 | 28,039 | 26,158 | 31,124 | 64,130 | 17,728 | 31,335 | 18,890 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating expenses: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Research and development(1) | 41,399 | 42,757 | 43,138 | 45,844 | 49,362 | 50,977 | 50,835 | 50,611 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing(1) | 10,338 | 9,524 | 10,734 | 10,367 | 9,704 | 10,349 | 9,693 | 10,171 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative(1) | 22,713 | 21,705 | 25,189 | 25,802 | 25,776 | 24,824 | 23,536 | 25,541 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total operating expenses | 74,450 | 73,986 | 79,061 | 82,013 | 84,842 | 86,150 | 84,064 | 86,323 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loss from operations | (17,157) | (45,947) | (52,903) | (50,889) | (20,712) | (68,422) | (52,729) | (67,433) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other income (expense): | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gain (loss) on equity investments | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Change in fair value of equity investments | 46,999 | 9,691 | 4,579 | (13,095) | (22,080) | 25,459 | (5,833) | 8,137 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other income | 3,131 | 3,623 | 5,438 | 4,204 | 3,539 | 4,737 | 4,598 | 5,028 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total other income (expense) | 50,130 | 13,314 | 10,017 | (8,891) | (18,541) | 30,196 | (1,235) | 13,165 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Income (loss) before income taxes | 32,973 | (32,633) | (42,886) | (59,780) | (39,253) | (38,226) | (53,964) | (54,268) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Income tax expense (benefit) | 462 | 162 | 287 | 28 | 963 | (90) | 83 | 456 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income (loss) | $ | 32,511 | $ | (32,795) | $ | (43,173) | $ | (59,808) | $ | (40,216) | $ | (38,136) | $ | (54,047) | $ | (54,724) |
(1)Includes stock-based compensation as indicated in the table located further below.
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Revenues:
| Three Months Ended | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2025 | 2025 | 2025 | 2024 | 2024 | 2024 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| On-premise software | $ | 44,354 | $ | 15,928 | $ | 15,743 | $ | 25,423 | $ | 55,393 | $ | 12,250 | $ | 18,758 | $ | 17,619 | ||||||||||||||
| Hosted software | 11,538 | 11,585 | 11,128 | 10,872 | 11,176 | 8,814 | 8,087 | 7,176 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software maintenance | 6,893 | 6,826 | 6,778 | 6,796 | 5,886 | 5,658 | 5,840 | 5,895 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Professional services | 3,796 | 1,589 | 2,382 | 1,881 | 2,315 | 2,038 | 2,719 | 2,725 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenue from contracts with customers | 66,581 | 35,928 | 36,031 | 44,972 | 74,770 | 28,760 | 35,404 | 33,415 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software contribution | 2,701 | 4,930 | 4,513 | 3,844 | 4,892 | 3,124 | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total software products and services revenue | 69,282 | 40,858 | 40,544 | 48,816 | 79,662 | 31,884 | 35,404 | 33,415 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery services | 17,576 | 13,008 | 13,940 | 10,236 | 8,132 | 2,813 | 11,506 | 2,692 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery contribution | 377 | 458 | 275 | 499 | 523 | 593 | 424 | 491 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total drug discovery revenue | 17,953 | 13,466 | 14,215 | 10,735 | 8,655 | 3,406 | 11,930 | 3,183 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total revenues | $ | 87,235 | $ | 54,324 | $ | 54,759 | $ | 59,551 | $ | 88,317 | $ | 35,290 | $ | 47,334 | $ | 36,598 |
Deferred Revenue:
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2025 | 2025 | 2025 | 2024 | 2024 | 2024 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Deferred revenue | $ | 191,730 | $ | 174,673 | $ | 186,538 | $ | 209,954 | $ | 220,758 | $ | 46,973 | $ | 47,879 | $ | 57,513 |
Gross Margin:
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | ||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2025 | 2025 | 2025 | 2024 | 2024 | 2024 | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services gross margin | 81 | % | 73 | % | 68 | % | 72 | % | 83 | % | 73 | % | 80 | % | 76 | % |
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Stock-Based Compensation:
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2025 | 2025 | 2025 | 2024 | 2024 | 2024 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Stock-based compensation: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services | $ | 601 | $ | 604 | $ | 582 | $ | 611 | $ | 664 | $ | 665 | $ | 669 | $ | 645 | ||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | 747 | 802 | 839 | 792 | 538 | 573 | 691 | 490 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Research and development | 3,173 | 3,256 | 3,339 | 3,507 | 4,152 | 4,218 | 4,228 | 4,066 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | 932 | 927 | 968 | 920 | 988 | 971 | 968 | 974 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | 4,497 | 5,257 | 4,899 | 5,744 | 6,137 | 5,971 | 6,252 | 6,043 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total stock-based compensation expense | $ | 9,950 | $ | 10,846 | $ | 10,627 | $ | 11,574 | $ | 12,479 | $ | 12,398 | $ | 12,808 | $ | 12,218 |
Depreciation and Amortization:
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Depreciation and amortization: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services | $ | 117 | $ | 121 | $ | 122 | $ | 127 | $ | 130 | $ | 135 | $ | 120 | $ | 122 | ||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | 326 | 329 | 336 | 339 | 181 | 158 | 108 | 120 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Research and development | 652 | 662 | 695 | 735 | 897 | 878 | 793 | 780 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | 134 | 142 | 148 | 144 | 159 | 174 | 169 | 165 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | 208 | 211 | 230 | 244 | 266 | 262 | 264 | 278 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total depreciation and amortization expense | $ | 1,437 | $ | 1,465 | $ | 1,531 | $ | 1,589 | $ | 1,633 | $ | 1,607 | $ | 1,454 | $ | 1,465 |
Quarterly Revenue Trends
On-premise software revenue is subject to seasonality that generally favors the first and fourth quarter of each year, primarily due to the timing of customer renewals for on-premise software arrangements, for which revenue is recognized at a single point in time. Hosted software revenue grew more steadily over the periods presented, as existing customers and new customers increased their spend on hosted solutions, for which revenue is recognized ratably over the term of the contract. As a result, a portion of the software products and services revenue we reported in each period was attributable to sales we made in prior periods. Software maintenance revenue is related to on-premise software sales and also is recognized ratably over the term of the underlying agreement. Therefore, increases or decreases in customer sales, customer expansion, or renewals in a period may not be immediately reflected in revenue for the period. Our professional services arrangements are typically project-based and, therefore, fluctuated based on individual customer needs and ongoing project support. Drug discovery revenue fluctuated from period to period based on the achievement of specific collaboration milestones, as well as advancements of collaborative services. Software and drug discovery contribution revenue fluctuated from period to period based on the timing of costs incurred and conditions met.
We have accelerated our efforts to transition customers from on-premise software arrangements to hosted software contracts. As a result of this transition, we expect future quarterly and annual revenue trends to be impacted, as revenue associated with hosted software arrangements is generally recognized over the term of the contract, rather than at a point in
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time, and may differ in timing and pattern from revenue recognized under on-premise software arrangements. While this transition has not had a material impact on our historical results to date, it is expected to affect the timing and mix of revenue recognition in future periods and as a result, we expect revenue to decline in the near-term as the transition progresses.
Quarterly Deferred Revenue Trends
Deferred revenue consists of the unearned portion of customer billings, which is recognized as revenue in accordance with our revenue recognition policy. Deferred revenue balances have fluctuated based on the measurement of progress toward completion for service projects, the timing of sales, shifts in product mix, and fluctuations to the number and size of milestones that were deemed probable in advance of actual achievement.
Quarterly Gross Margin Trends
Our software products and services gross margin experienced fluctuations over the periods presented due to increased headcount and the product mix for software and services, as the cost of royalties due on sales of our hosted software is recognized upfront, while the associated revenue is recognized over the term of the related agreement. Currently, gross margin is less meaningful for measuring the operating results of our drug discovery business.
Quarterly Operating Expense Trends
Operating expenses generally decreased during the periods presented due to decreased headcount and personnel-related expenses involved in research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administrative activities, and CRO costs related to our proprietary drug discovery programs. The decreases in headcount across our operations represent a focused effort to reduce operating expenses and reduce cash used in operating activities. CRO cost decreases were driven by the discontinuation of development of SGR-2921, as well as the timing and progression of our proprietary drug discovery programs.
Quarterly Other Income (Expense) Trends
Other income (expense) during the periods presented consisted primarily of fair value gains and losses related to our equity investments in Morphic and Structure Therapeutics, and, to a lesser degree, interest income and transactional foreign exchange gains and losses.
Segment Information
See Note 14 – Segment Reporting in our audited consolidated financial statements for additional information regarding our segments.
Liquidity, Capital Resources and Funding Requirements
We have a history of significant operating losses and have primarily incurred negative cash flows from operations from inception through the year ended December 31, 2025. As of December 31, 2025, we had an accumulated deficit of $628.8 million.
We have funded our operations to date principally from the sale of our equity securities, including our initial public offering and our follow-on public offering, and from sales of our software solutions and from upfront payments, research funding and milestone payments from our drug discovery collaborations, and from distributions on account of, or proceeds from the sale of, our equity stakes in our collaborators. Our operating cash flows are impacted by the magnitude and timing of our software sales and by the magnitude and timing of our drug discovery milestone achievements and research funding fees.
On February 28, 2024, we filed a universal shelf registration statement on Form S-3 which allows us to offer and sell an indeterminate number of shares of common stock, preferred stock, depositary shares or warrants, or an indeterminate principal amount of debt securities, from time to time pursuant to one or more offerings at prices and terms to be determined at the time of the sale.
In February 2024, we entered into an amended and restated sales agreement with Leerink Partners LLC (formerly
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SVB Securities LLC), or Leerink Partners, as sales agent, with respect to an at-the-market offering program, or the ATM, under which we could offer and sell, from time to time pursuant to our Registration Statement on Form S-3, shares of common stock, having an aggregate offering price of up to $250.0 million through Leerink Partners. The amended and restated sales agreement amends and restates the original sales agreement that we entered into with Leerink Partners with respect to the ATM in May 2023, which is no longer in effect. During the year ended December 31, 2025, no shares of common stock were sold under the ATM. During the year ended December 31, 2024, 323,085 shares of common stock were sold under the ATM for total net proceeds of $8.7 million and gross proceeds of $8.9 million, before deducting sales agent commissions. As of both December 31, 2025 and 2024, we had $241.1 million of common stock remaining available for sale under the ATM.
As of December 31, 2025, we had cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash, and marketable securities of $402.3 million.
We believe our existing cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities as of December 31, 2025 will be sufficient to fund our operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements through at least the next 24 months. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including the growth of our software revenue, the timing and extent of spending to support research and development efforts, the continued expansion of software sales and marketing activities, the timing and receipt of milestone payments from our collaborations, as well as spending to support, advance, and broaden our proprietary drug discovery programs, including the impact of tariffs and trade restrictions on such spending. Furthermore, our capital requirements will also change depending on the timing and receipt of any distributions we may receive from our equity stakes in our drug discovery collaborators. The potential for these distributions, and the amounts which we may be entitled to receive, are difficult to predict due to the inherent uncertainty of the events which may trigger such distributions.
We plan to utilize the existing cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities on hand primarily to fund our software and drug discovery activities. With respect to our proprietary drug discovery programs, we plan to strategically evaluate on a program-by-program basis advancing them into and through preclinical development ourselves, entering into collaborations to co-develop them with leading industry partners, or out-licensing them to maximize their development, clinical and commercial potential. Beyond our planned investments to complete our ongoing Phase 1 dose-escalation clinical trials of SGR-1505 and SGR-3515, we do not intend to initiate additional clinical trials or advance our other proprietary preclinical programs into clinical trials independently. We plan to explore strategic partnerships for the SGR-1505 and SGR-3515 programs to advance the development of these programs beyond our ongoing Phase 1 clinical trials.
We may be required to seek additional equity or debt financing. In the event that we require additional financing, we may not be able to raise such financing on terms acceptable to us or at all. If we are unable to raise additional capital or generate cash flows necessary to maintain or expand our operations and invest in our platform, we may not be able to compete successfully, which would harm our business, operations and financial condition. In addition, we may seek additional capital due to favorable market conditions or strategic considerations, even if we believe we have sufficient funds for our current or future operating plans.
Our contractual obligations as of December 31, 2025 include lease obligations of $160.2 million, consisting of our continuing rent obligations through December 2037, primarily for our office located in New York, New York for $126.5 million, which expires in December 2037. In addition, see Note 6 – Commitments and Contingencies to our consolidated financial statements appearing in Item 8 of this Annual Report for more information relating to our operating lease obligations.
In December 2022, we entered into an agreement with a third-party to establish an exclusive integrated drug discovery dedicated facility in Hyderabad, India. The agreement contains a minimum payment obligation, which totals $21.8 million over five years after the date of first occupancy.
In December 2025, we entered into a three-year agreement with a third-party cloud provider for compute power. The agreement contains a minimum payment obligation, which totals $82.0 million over the three years after the date we entered into the agreement.
We also enter into agreements in the normal course of business with CRO vendors for research, preclinical studies, and clinical trials, professional consultants for expert advice, and other vendors for various products and services. These contracts do not contain any minimum purchase commitments and are cancellable at any time by us, generally upon
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30 days prior written notice, and therefore we believe that our non-cancelable obligations under these agreements are not material. We have also agreed to pay volume-based royalties to third-parties for use of software functionality under various licensing and related agreements. See Note 2 – Significant Accounting Policies to our audited consolidated financial statements appearing in Item 8 of this Annual Report for more information relating to our royalty obligations.
Cash Flows
The following table presents a summary of our cash flows for the periods shown:
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| Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities | $ | 13,899 | $ | (157,368) | ||
| Net cash provided by investing activities | 57,898 | 148,836 | ||||
| Net cash provided by financing activities | 2,931 | 10,123 | ||||
| Net increase in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash | $ | 74,728 | $ | 1,591 |
Operating activities
During the year ended December 31, 2025, operating activities provided approximately $13.9 million of cash, primarily due to changes to our operating assets and liabilities of $118.2 million, $43.0 million of stock-based compensation, and $4.2 million of non-cash operating expenses, depreciation and investment accretion costs. These items were partially offset by a net loss of $103.3 million, which included a $48.2 million non-cash gain on changes in fair value.
During the year ended December 31, 2024, operating activities used approximately $157.4 million of cash, primarily due to a net loss of $187.1 million, which included changes to our operating assets and liabilities of $13.1 million, a $5.7 million non-cash gain on changes in fair value, and $1.4 million of non-cash operating expenses, depreciation and investment accretion costs. These items were partially offset by $49.9 million of stock-based compensation.
Investing activities
During the year ended December 31, 2025, investing activities provided approximately $57.9 million of cash, consisting of $41.6 million provided by marketable securities maturities, net of purchases, and $17.7 million provided by the sale of equity investments. These items were partially offset by $1.4 million in cash used for purchases of property and equipment.
During the year ended December 31, 2024, investing activities provided approximately $148.8 million of cash, consisting of $110.4 million provided by marketable securities maturities, net of purchases, and $48.8 million primarily provided by the disposition of equity investments. These items were partially offset by $7.3 million in cash used for purchases of property and equipment and $3.1 million primarily used for purchases of our equity investment in Ajax Therapeutics, Inc.
Financing activities
During the year ended December 31, 2025, financing activities provided approximately $2.9 million of cash, primarily attributable to proceeds received from stock option exercises.
During the year ended December 31, 2024, financing activities provided approximately $10.1 million of cash, consisting of $8.7 million attributable to net proceeds received from the ATM and $1.4 million attributable to proceeds received from stock option exercises.
Seasonality
Generally, the first and fourth quarter of each year have been our largest quarters for software products and services revenue, primarily due to the timing of customer renewals of on-premise software arrangements, for which revenue is recognized at a single point in time. Seasonality has been a less significant factor for our hosted software
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arrangements, for which revenue is recognized ratably over time. Seasonality has not been a factor for our drug discovery revenues. Historical seasonality may not be indicative of future periods.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Critical accounting policies are those that are both most important to the portrayal of a company's financial condition and results, and that require management's most difficult, subjective, and complex judgments, often as a result of the need to make estimates about the effect of matters that are inherently uncertain. Our management’s discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations is based on our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of these consolidated financial statements requires us to make judgments and estimates that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities in our consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes. We base our estimates on historical experience, known trends and events, and our beliefs of what could occur in the future considering available information. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our judgments and estimates in light of changes in circumstances, facts, and experience. The effects of material revisions in estimates, if any, are reflected in the consolidated financial statements prospectively from the date of change in estimates.
While our significant accounting policies are described in more detail in Note 2 – Significant Accounting Policies to our consolidated financial statements appearing in Item 8 of this Annual Report, we believe the following critical accounting estimates used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements require the most difficult, subjective and complex judgments and estimates and have had, or are reasonably likely to have a material impact on our financial condition or results of operations.
Revenue
We recognize revenue in accordance with ASC Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, or Topic 606, except for contracts that are within the scope of other standards, such as contribution grants and certain collaboration arrangements. In accordance with Topic 606, we recognize revenue when our customer obtains control of promised goods or services, in an amount that reflects the consideration which we expect to receive in exchange for those goods or services. To determine revenue recognition for arrangements that we determine are within the scope of Topic 606, we perform the following five steps: (i) identify the contract(s) with a customer; (ii) identify the performance obligations in the contract; (iii) determine the transaction price; (iv) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; and (v) recognize revenue when or as we satisfy a performance obligation.
Significant management judgment is applied to determine the allocation of the transaction price and measurement of progress, including (1) the constraint on variable consideration, (2) the identification of performance obligations and allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations using their standalone selling price, or SSP, and (3) the appropriate input or output based method to recognize collaboration revenue and the extent of progress to date.
Variable consideration: Our revenue may include upfront payments for the performance of services in the future, which have both fixed and variable consideration. We include the unconstrained amount of estimated variable consideration in the transaction price. The amount included in the transaction price is constrained to the amount for which it is probable that a significant reversal of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur. At the end of each subsequent reporting period, we re-evaluate the estimated variable consideration included in the transaction price and any related constraint and, if necessary, adjust our estimate of the overall transaction price.
Research and development, regulatory or commercial milestones in our collaboration agreements may include some, but not necessarily all, of the following types of events:
•completion of preclinical research and development work leading to selection of product candidates;
•initiation of Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 clinical trials;
•filing of regulatory applications for marketing approval in the United States, Europe or Japan;
•marketing approval in major markets, such as the United States, Europe, or Japan;
•commercial milestones and/or commercial royalties; and
•achievement of certain other technical, scientific, or development criteria.
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At the inception of each arrangement that includes research, development, or regulatory milestone payments, we evaluate whether the milestones are considered probable of being reached and estimate the amount to be included in the transaction price using the most likely amount method. If it is probable that a significant revenue reversal would not occur, the associated milestone value is included in the transaction price. Milestone payments that are not within our control or that of the licensee, such as certain regulatory approvals, are not considered probable of being achieved until those approvals are received. The transaction price is then allocated to each performance obligation on a relative SSP basis consistent with the allocation objectives of Topic 606, for which we recognize revenue as or when the performance obligations under the contract are satisfied. At the end of each subsequent reporting period, we re-evaluate the probability of achievement of such development milestones and any related constraint, and if necessary, adjust our estimate of the overall transaction price. Any such adjustments are recorded on a cumulative catch-up basis, which may affect license, collaboration, and other revenues and earnings in the period of adjustment. The process of successfully achieving the criteria for the milestone payments is highly uncertain. Consequently, there is a risk that we may not earn all of the milestone payments from each of our collaborators. We recognized $12.8 million and $14.1 million from drug discovery milestones for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
Software performance obligations and transaction price allocation: At contract inception, we assess the goods or services promised within each contract that falls under the scope of Topic 606 to identify distinct performance obligations, which requires the most difficult, subjective, and complex judgments based on the nature of each transaction. We allocate the transaction price to each distinct performance obligation on an SSP basis. We determine the SSP using information that includes historical discounting practices, market conditions, cost-plus analysis, and other observable inputs. We typically have more than one SSP for individual software license performance obligations due to the stratification of those items by classes of customers and circumstances. In these instances, we may use information such as the size and geographic region of the customer in determining the SSP. We may also estimate SSP based on management judgment by considering available data such as internal cost and margin objectives, pricing strategies, market/competitive conditions, historical profitability data, as well as other observable inputs. We establish SSP ranges for our products and services and reassess them periodically. The determination of SSP requires significant management judgment.
Collaboration agreement performance obligations, transaction price allocation, and measurement of progress: At the inception of each arrangement, we utilize judgment to assess the nature of the performance obligations to determine whether they are distinct or a single combined performance obligation. We allocate the transaction price to each performance obligation based on the relative SSP of each performance obligation at inception. We determine the SSP at contract inception of the research activities based on internal estimates of the costs to perform the services, inclusive of a reasonable profit margin. Significant judgment is used to determine the inputs for total costs to perform the research activities, which may include the length of time required, the internal hours expected to be incurred on the services and the number and costs of various studies that will be performed by third-parties to complete the research plan. Revenue is recognized on a proportional performance basis over the period of service, using input-based measurements to estimate the performance. Changes to these assumptions may have a material effect on the amount and timing of revenue recognized. We recognized revenue of $38.4 million and $8.3 million related to collaboration agreements with proportional performance measurement for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
See Note 2 – Significant Accounting Policies to our consolidated financial statements appearing in Item 8 of this Annual Report for a discussion of recently issued accounting pronouncements.
MD&A history
Prior-year 10-K MD&A spans are extracted from SEC filings with the same bounded parser used for the latest filing. The latest 10-K appears above; prior years are below.
FY 2024 10-K MD&A
SEC filing source: 0001490978-25-000014.
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations together with our consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report. Some of the information contained in this discussion and analysis or set forth elsewhere in this Annual Report, including information with respect to our plans and strategy for our business, includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations covers fiscal 2024 and fiscal 2023 items and year-over-year comparisons between fiscal 2024 and fiscal 2023. Discussions of fiscal 2022 items and year-over-year comparisons between fiscal 2023 and 2022 that are not included in this Form 10-K can be found in "Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in Part II, Item 7 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, that was filed with the SEC on February 28, 2024.
As a result of many factors, including those factors set forth in "Risk Factors" of this Annual Report, our actual results could differ materially from the results described in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in the following discussion and analysis. For further information regarding our forward-looking statements, see "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Industry Data" in this Annual Report.
Overview
We are transforming the way therapeutics and materials are discovered. Our differentiated, physics-based computational platform enables discovery of high-quality, novel molecules for drug development and materials applications more rapidly and at a lower cost, compared to traditional methods. Our software platform is licensed by biopharmaceutical and industrial companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories around the world. We are applying our computational platform to advance a broad pipeline of drug discovery programs in collaboration with leading biopharmaceutical companies. In addition, we use our computational platform to discover novel molecules for our pipeline of proprietary drug discovery programs, which we are advancing through preclinical and clinical development.
Since our founding, we have been primarily focused on developing our computational platform, which is capable of predicting critical properties of molecules with a high degree of accuracy, as well as advancing drug discovery programs both with our collaborators and on our own. We have devoted substantially all of our resources to introducing new capabilities and refining our software, conducting research and development activities, recruiting skilled personnel, and providing general and administrative support for these operations.
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Over the last decade, we have entered into a number of collaborations with leading biopharmaceutical companies that have provided us with significant revenue and have the potential to produce additional milestone payments, option fees, and future royalties. In 2018, we began to develop a pipeline of proprietary drug discovery programs with the goal of using our platform to produce a portfolio of novel, high value therapeutics. In June 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, cleared our first investigational new drug application, or IND, for our MALT1 inhibitor, which we refer to as SGR-1505. We have initiated dosing in a Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-1505, which is designed as an open-label, multi-center dose escalation trial in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell malignancies. The trial is designed to evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, maximum tolerated dose and/or recommended dose of SGR-1505. Exploratory cohorts will evaluate additional pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, preliminary anti-tumor activity, and safety to establish the recommended dose. We anticipate reporting initial data from the trial in the second quarter of 2025.
We also completed a Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-1505 in 73 healthy volunteers to gather additional data, including data relating to the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of SGR-1505, as well as the effect of food and drug-drug interactions. In the healthy volunteer trial, SGR-1505 was generally well tolerated with no drug-related serious adverse events or dose limiting toxicities observed. In the trial, we observed that SGR-1505 achieved greater than 90 percent inhibition of IL-2 secretion in an activated T cell whole blood assay at 100mg twice a day (n=4), confirming target engagement and meeting the pharmacodynamic goals for the trial. Inhibition of IL-2 secretion is a marker for target engagement and pathway modulation as it is tightly linked to MALT1 and the downstream NF-κB signaling. The data supported continued evaluation of SGR-1505 in the ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell malignancies. In addition, in August 2023, the FDA granted orphan drug designation to SGR-1505 for the potential treatment of mantle cell lymphoma.
In July 2023, the FDA cleared our IND for our CDC7 inhibitor, which we refer to as SGR-2921. In July 2024, the FDA granted Fast Track designation to SGR-2921 in patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia, or AML. In addition, in January 2025, the FDA granted orphan drug designation to SGR-2921 in patients with relapsed or refractory AML. We have initiated dosing in a Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-2921, which is designed as an open-label, multi-center dose-escalation clinical trial in patients with relapsed or refractory AML or high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome. The trial is designed to evaluate the safety and tolerability of SGR-2921 as a monotherapy and to identify the recommended Phase 2 dose, including the maximum tolerated dose. Secondary and exploratory objectives of the trial include evaluating the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of SGR-2921 and investigating preliminary anti-tumor activity. We anticipate reporting initial data from the trial in the second half of 2025.
In March 2024, we also submitted an IND to the FDA for our novel Wee1/Myt1 inhibitor, which we refer to as SGR-3515, and the FDA cleared the IND in April 2024. We recently initiated dosing in a Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-3515 in patients with advanced solid tumors. The trial is a dose-escalation trial designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability and recommended Phase 2 dose of SGR-3515. Secondary and exploratory objectives of the trial include evaluating the pharmacokinetics and preliminary anti-tumor activity of SGR-3515. We anticipate reporting initial data from the trial in the second half of 2025.
In July 2024, we launched an initiative to expand our computational platform to predict toxicity associated with binding to off-target proteins. The goal of this initiative is to develop a computational solution to improve the properties of drug development candidates and reduce the risk of development failure. The project is being funded initially by $19.5 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
We have funded our operations to date principally from the sale of our equity securities, including our initial public offering and our follow-on public offering, and to a lesser extent, from sales of our software solutions and from upfront payments, research funding and milestone payments from our drug discovery collaborations, and from distributions on account of, or proceeds from the sale of, our equity stakes in our collaborators. In 2023, on account of our equity stake in Nimbus Therapeutics, LLC, or Nimbus, we received an aggregate of $147.2 million in cash distributions from Nimbus in connection with Takeda’s acquisition of Nimbus Lakshmi, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nimbus, and its TYK2 inhibitor NDI-034858.
On August 15, 2024, Morphic Holding, Inc., or Morphic, one of our drug discovery collaborators and co-founded companies, was acquired by Eli Lilly and Company, or Lilly, for $57.00 per share, or approximately $3.2 billion. In connection with the acquisition, we received $47.6 million for the 834,968 shares of Morphic we owned. We are also entitled to low single-digit royalties on our clinical development programs under our collaboration agreement with Morphic, including MORF-057.
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We currently conduct our operations through two reportable segments: software and drug discovery. The software segment is focused on selling our software to transform drug discovery across the life sciences industry, as well as to customers in materials science industries. The drug discovery segment is focused on generating revenue from a diverse portfolio of preclinical and clinical programs, internally and through collaborations, that have advanced to various stages of discovery and development.
Our software segment generates revenue from software product licenses, hosted software subscriptions, software maintenance, professional services, and contributions. The revenue we generate through our software solutions from each of our customers varies largely depending on the type and number of software licenses our customers purchase from us. The licenses that our customers purchase from us provide them the ability to perform a certain number of calculations used in the design of molecules for drug discovery or materials science. The amount we charge per license depends on the specific software products our customers purchase from us, and the number of licenses needed to perform calculations per software product varies. With the exception of certain limited products, the number of licenses a customer requires is typically based on the scale at which they are running our software products and is not based on how many users have access to the software. As customers increase the number of licenses they purchase from us, they will typically be able to run a greater number of simultaneous instances of our products, thereby increasing the number of calculations they will be able to perform in parallel, subject to having enough computational capacity. We deliver our software through either (i) a product license that permits our customers to install the software solution directly on their own in-house hardware and use it for a specified term, or (ii) a subscription that allows our customers to access our cloud-based software solution on their own hardware without taking control of licenses.
Our collaboration agreements typically include upfront consideration, discovery, development, commercial and regulatory milestones, and royalties from future sales of commercialized products. We generate drug discovery revenue through the performance of specified research and development activities under our collaboration agreements and upon the achievement of discovery and development milestones, and we have the potential to generate drug discovery revenue from commercial and regulatory milestones, option fees, and royalties under our collaboration agreements. In the future, we may also derive drug discovery revenue from our collaborations from option fees, the achievement of regulatory and commercial milestones, and royalties on commercial drug sales. In addition to revenue from our collaborations, we may also derive drug discovery revenue from collaborating on or out-licensing our proprietary drug discovery programs when we believe it will help maximize the clinical and commercial opportunities for the program.
We are party to an exclusive, worldwide collaboration and license agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, or BMS, pursuant to which we and BMS agreed to collaborate in the discovery, research and development of small molecule compounds for biological targets in the oncology, neurology and immunology therapeutic areas. After mutual agreement on the targets(s) of interest, we are responsible for the discovery of development candidates. Once a development candidate meeting specified criteria for a target has been identified, BMS will be solely responsible for the development, manufacturing and commercialization of such development candidate. We are eligible to receive up to $482.0 million in total milestone payments for the one remaining neurology target currently subject to the collaboration, of which we have recognized $32.0 million as of December 31, 2024, as well as a tiered percentage royalty on net sales of each product commercialized by BMS ranging from mid-single digits to low-double digits, subject to certain specified reductions. See "Collaboration and License Agreement" in Note 3 to our consolidated financial statements for additional information relating to this agreement.
In September 2022, we entered into a collaboration with Lilly under which we are responsible for the discovery and optimization of small molecule compounds addressing an immunology target. Lilly will be responsible for the completion of preclinical development, clinical development and commercialization. Under the terms of the agreement, we received an upfront payment and we are eligible to receive up to $420.0 million in discovery, development and commercial milestone payments. We are also eligible to receive low single- to low double-digit royalties on net sales of any products emerging from the collaboration in all markets.
In November 2024, we entered into a research collaboration and license agreement with Novartis Pharma AG, or Novartis, pursuant to which we and Novartis agreed to collaborate on the discovery, research and preclinical development of small molecule compounds for targets in certain specified therapeutic areas. The agreement is intended to advance multiple development candidates for development and commercialization by Novartis. Under the terms of the research collaboration and license agreement, Novartis paid us an initial upfront fee of $150.0 million in January 2025 and we will be eligible to receive up to $2.272 billion in total milestone payments across the initial programs. Such milestones consist of up to $892.0 million in discovery and development milestones and up to $1.38 billion in commercial milestones. We are also entitled to a tiered percentage royalty on net sales of each product commercialized by Novartis ranging from mid
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single-digits to low double-digits, subject to certain specified reductions. No milestone revenue has been recognized as of December 31, 2024. In November 2024, we also entered into an expanded three-year software agreement with Novartis that substantially increases Novartis' access to our computational predictive modeling technology and enterprise informatics platform. See "Collaboration and License Agreement" in Note 3 to our consolidated financial statements for additional information relating to this agreement.
For the year ended December 31, 2024, we generated total revenue of $207.5 million and had a net loss of $187.1 million.
Key Factors Affecting Our Performance
Ability to drive additional revenue from our software solutions from existing customers
Our large existing base of customers represents a significant opportunity for us to expand our revenue through increased utilization of our software. We had 1,752 and 1,785 active customers for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. We define the number of active customers as the number of customers who had an annual contract value, or ACV, of at least $1,000 in the fiscal year. Included in the number of customers are entities we derive software contribution revenue from, which for the year ended December 31, 2024, consisted of Gates Ventures, LLC and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. We use $1,000 as a threshold for defining our active customers as this amount will generally exclude customers who only license our PyMOL software, which is our open-source molecular visualization system broadly available at low cost. The revenue that we generate through our software solutions from each of our customers varies depending on the number of licenses for each software solution that each customer purchases from us. Accordingly, we work with our customers to improve their experience and increase the utility of our platform in order to expand the scale at which they deploy our platform in their business. Biopharmaceutical companies are increasingly adopting our software at a larger scale, and we anticipate that this scaling-up will drive future revenue growth.
Our ability to expand within our customer base is demonstrated by the increasing number of our customers with an ACV at higher thresholds. For the year ended December 31, 2024, we had 61 customers with an ACV of at least $500,000 compared to 54 for the year ended December 31, 2023. Furthermore, we had 31, 27, and 18 customers with an ACV of at least $1.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively. We also had eight customers with an ACV of at least $5.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, compared to four customers for each of the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.
With respect to contracts that have a duration of one year or less, or contracts of more than one year in duration that are billed annually, we define ACV as the contract value billed during the applicable period. For contracts with a duration of more than one year that are billed upfront, ACV in each period represents the total billed contract value divided by the term. ACV should be viewed independently of revenue and does not represent revenue calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, or U.S. GAAP, on an annualized basis, as it is an operating metric that can be impacted by contract execution start and end dates and renewal rates. ACV is not intended to be a replacement for, or forecast of, revenue. Our ACV was $190.8 million and $154.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Ability to retain our customer base for our software solutions
Another important driver of our performance is our ability to retain our customer base. We had 235, 222, and 227 customers with an ACV of at least $100,000 for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2024, our year-over-year customer retention rate for such customers was 95% and was 92% or higher for each of the previous 10 fiscal years. Our customer retention rate for our customers with an ACV of at least $500,000 was 100% for the year ended December 31, 2024 and 98% for the year ended December 31, 2023. We calculate year-over-year customer retention for our customers with an ACV of at least $100,000 or $500,000 by starting with the number of such customers we had in the previous fiscal year. We then calculate how many of these customers were active customers in the current fiscal year. We then divide this number by the number of customers with an ACV of at least $100,000 or $500,000, as applicable, that, we had in the previous fiscal year to arrive at the year-over-year customer retention rate for such customers.
We believe our sales and marketing approach and the quality of our software solutions result in long-term relationships and high retention with our largest customers. This is demonstrated by the length of our key relationships, with the average tenure of our 10 largest software customers in 2024 being nearly 21 years. Furthermore, we have significantly penetrated the pharmaceutical industry, with 19 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies, measured by 2023
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revenue, licensing our software in 2024. Our ability to continue to grow our software revenue is dependent upon our ability to retain customers through the continued support and investment in our sales and marketing efforts and the ongoing enhancement of our software solutions.
Advancement of our collaborative programs
We have entered into a number of collaborations with leading biopharmaceutical companies to advance drug discovery. We will seek to enter into additional collaboration agreements, driven by the synergies we expect to achieve between our platform and the capabilities and expertise of our potential collaborators. We believe that our collaborations will be a significant driver of value for us in the form of equity stakes, research fees, preclinical, clinical, and commercial milestone payments, and option fees, as well as royalties on any potential future sales of products, if approved. We continue to work with our current collaborators to advance existing programs through discovery research stages and initiate additional programs. However, we do not generally exercise control over the development programs of our collaborators and depend on our collaborators' decisions with respect to clinical development and commercialization. Our ability to continue to derive value from our collaborations will be driven by our capability to make progress in these programs, whether our collaborators successfully advance such programs beyond the discovery stage, and the strategic priorities of our collaboration partners. We track the aggregate number of collaborative programs for which we are eligible to receive any amount of royalties on sales and as of December 31, 2024, we had an aggregate of 13 collaborative programs for which we are eligible to receive future royalties compared to 12 collaborative programs as of December 31, 2023.
Ability to progress and expand our pipeline of proprietary drug discovery programs
We are advancing our pipeline of proprietary programs through preclinical and clinical development. Our initial programs were focused on discovering and developing inhibitors for targets in DNA damage response pathways and genetically defined cancers. Since then, we have expanded into other therapeutic areas, including immunology and neurology. We have initiated dosing in a Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-1505 in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell malignancies, a Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-2921 in patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia or high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome, and a Phase 1 clinical trial for SGR-3515 in patients with advanced solid tumors. We anticipate reporting initial data from the Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-1505 in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell malignancies in the second quarter of 2025, and from each of the Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-2921 in patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia or high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome and the Phase 1 clinical trial for SGR-3515 in patients with advanced solid tumors in the second half of 2025. We continue to advance new programs where we can leverage our computational platform to discover novel molecules, including our programs targeting PRMT5-MTA, EGFRC797S, NLRP3, and LRRK2. As we progress and expand our pipeline of proprietary programs, we will strategically evaluate on a program-by-program basis advancing them ourselves, entering into collaborations to co-develop them with leading industry partners, or out-licensing them to maximize their probability of clinical and commercial success.
Components of Results of Operations
Software Products and Services Revenue
Our software business generates revenue from five sources: (i) on-premise software license fees, (ii) hosted software subscription fees, (iii) software maintenance fees, (iv) professional services fees, and (v) contributions.
On-premise software. Our on-premise software license arrangements grant customers the right to use our software on their own in-house servers or their own cloud instances for a specified term, typically for one year, though in recent years, we have entered into a small number of large multi-year on-premise software license agreements. We recognize revenue for on-premise software license fees upfront, either upon transfer of control of the license or the effective date of the agreement, whichever is later.
Hosted software. Hosted software revenue consists primarily of fees to provide our customers with hosted licenses, which allows these customers to access our cloud-based software solution on their own hardware without taking control of the licenses, and is recognized ratably over the term of the arrangement, which is typically one year, though in recent years, we have entered into a small number of large multi-year hosted software license agreements. When a customer enters into a hosted arrangement for which revenue is recognized over time, the amount paid upfront that is not recognized in the current period is included in deferred revenue in our statement of financial position until the period in which it is recognized.
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Software maintenance. Software maintenance includes technical support, updates, and upgrades related to our on-premise software licenses. Software maintenance revenue is recognized ratably over the term of the arrangement. Software maintenance activities are performed in connection with the use of our on-premise software, and may fluctuate from period to period.
Professional services. Professional services include training, technical setup, installation or assisting customers with modeling services, where we use our software to perform tasks such as virtual screening on behalf of our customers. These services are generally not related to the core functionality of our software and are recognized as revenue when resources are consumed. Since each professional services agreement represents a unique, ad hoc engagement, professional services revenue may fluctuate from period to period.
Software contribution revenue. Software contribution revenue consists of funds received under non-reciprocal agreements with Gates Ventures, LLC and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The agreement with Gates Ventures, LLC was originally entered into in June 2020 and further extended through August 2026. The agreement is an unconditional non-exchange contribution without restrictions. Revenue is recognized annually, when invoiced, in accordance with Accounting Standard Codification, or ASC, Topic 958, Not-for-Profit Entities, or Topic 958, as the agreement is not an exchange transaction.
In July 2024, we entered into a one-year agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to initially fund our initiative to accelerate the expansion of our computational platform to predict toxicity associated with binding to off-target proteins. In November 2024, we entered into an expansion of the agreement which extends the funding and effort for this initiative through April 2026. Revenue is recognized as conditions are met and on a cost reimbursement basis in accordance with Topic 958.
Drug Discovery Revenue
Drug discovery services. We generate drug discovery revenue through the performance of specified research and development activities under our collaboration agreements and upon the achievement of discovery and development milestones, and we have the potential to generate drug discovery revenue from commercial and regulatory milestones, option fees, and royalties under our collaboration agreements. The majority of our current collaborations are in the discovery and preclinical development stages. Milestone payments typically increase in magnitude as a program advances. However, our focus is increasingly on investing in our proprietary drug discovery programs, which may result in a smaller number of collaborative programs over time and, as a result, fewer milestone payments on account of those collaborative programs. In addition to revenue from our collaborations, we may also derive drug discovery revenue from out-licensing our proprietary drug discovery programs when we believe it will help maximize the probability of clinical and commercial success of the program. Overall, we expect that our drug discovery revenue will fluctuate from period to period due to the inherently uncertain nature of the timing of milestone achievements and our dependence on the program decisions of our collaborators.
Drug discovery contribution revenue. Contribution revenue consists of funds received under agreements with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on a cost reimbursement basis, to perform services aimed at accelerating drug discovery in women’s health. Revenue is recognized as conditions are met in accordance with Topic 958.
Cost of Revenues
Software products and services. Cost of revenues for software includes personnel-related expenses (comprised of salaries, benefits, and stock-based compensation) for employees directly involved in the delivery of software solutions, maintenance and professional services, royalties paid for products sold and services performed using third-party licensed software functionality, and allocated overhead (facilities and information technology support) costs. Pursuant to various third-party arrangements, we license technology that is used in our software. These arrangements require us to pay royalties based on sales volume, and such royalty payments represented 3.5% and 4.1% of software revenues in the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Drug discovery. Costs of revenue for drug discovery includes personnel-related expenses and costs of third-party contract research organizations, or CROs, that support discovery activities in our collaborations, royalties paid for services performed using third-party licensed software functionality, allocated compute capacity and overhead costs. While we have incurred costs associated with discovery efforts since late 2017, we have recognized and expect to continue to recognize
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revenues in the future if and when milestones are deemed probable or achieved. Generally, drug discovery costs of revenue for collaborations are incurred in advance of the revenue milestone achievement.
Royalty payments to third-parties represented 9.5% and 3.5% of drug discovery revenues in the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. We expect our drug discovery costs of revenue to trend lower over time as we shift our focus to proprietary drug discovery programs. However, these trends will be impacted by the number and stage of our collaborative programs, especially in the case of new collaborative programs.
Gross Profit and Gross Margin
Gross profit represents revenue less cost of revenues. Gross margin is gross profit expressed as a percentage of revenue. Our software products and services gross margin may fluctuate from period to period as our revenue fluctuates, and as a result of changes in sales mix between on-premise and hosted software solutions due to timing of recognition. For example, the cost of royalties due for sales of our hosted software arrangements are recognized upfront, whereas the associated hosted software revenue for these arrangements is recognized over the term of the underlying agreement.
While the gross margin of our drug discovery business will fluctuate significantly from period to period depending on factors such as the timing of recognition of milestones, the number and mix of collaborative programs, and their respective stages of development, we expect the gross margins to generally trend higher over time as more programs advance to later stages of development, the milestones increase in size and our ongoing research and development obligations to such programs decline in cost.
Research and Development Expense
Research and development expense accounts for a significant portion of our operating expenses. We recognize research and development expense as incurred. Research and development expense consists of drug discovery and development program costs and costs incurred for continuous development of the technology and science that supports our computational platform, primarily:
•personnel-related expenses, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation for employees engaged in research and development functions;
•expenses incurred under agreements with third-party CROs and consultants involved in our proprietary drug discovery programs; and
•allocated compute capacity on our proprietary drug discovery programs and overhead (facilities and information technology support) costs.
We expect our research and development expense to increase in absolute dollars as we continue to invest in activities related to discovery and development of our proprietary drug discovery programs, in advancing our computational platform, and as we incur expenses associated with hiring additional personnel directly involved in such efforts. The amount to which our research and development expense may increase in the future will also be dependent on our development plans for our proprietary drug discovery programs, including the timing of any partnering, collaboration or out-licensing decisions. At this time, we do not know, nor can we reasonably estimate, the nature, timing, or costs of the efforts that will be necessary to complete the development of any of our proprietary drug discovery programs.
Sales and Marketing Expense
Sales and marketing expense consists primarily of personnel-related costs for our sales and marketing staff and application scientists supporting our sales efforts, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation. Other sales and marketing costs include promotional events that promote and expand knowledge of our company and platform, including industry conferences and events and our annual user group meetings in the United States and Europe, advertising, and allocated overhead costs. Due to the inherent scientific complexity of our software solutions, a high level of scientific expertise is needed to support our sales and marketing efforts. We plan to make focused investments in sales and marketing over the foreseeable future to foster the growth of our business as we aim to expand software sales to existing customers and increase our customer base.
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General and Administrative Expense
General and administrative expense consists of personnel-related expenses associated with our executive, legal, finance, human resources, information technology, and other administrative functions, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation. General and administrative expense also includes professional fees for external legal, accounting and other consulting services, allocated overhead costs, and other general operating expenses.
We expect to continue to incur additional expenses as a result of operating as a public company, including costs to comply with the rules and regulations applicable to companies listed on a U.S. securities exchange and costs related to compliance and reporting obligations pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. In addition, as a public company, we expect to continue to incur increased expenses such as insurance and professional services. As a result, we expect the dollar amount of our general and administrative expense to increase for the foreseeable future.
Gain on Equity Investments
Gain on equity investments consists of realized gains in the form of cash distributions from our equity investments.
Change in Fair Value
Fair value gains and losses consist of adjustments to the fair value of our equity investments, which may include Nimbus, Structure Therapeutics Inc., or Structure Therapeutics, and Morphic. We remeasure our investments at each period end.
We expect that fair value gains and losses will fluctuate significantly in future periods.
Other Income
Other income consists of interest earned on our cash equivalents and marketable securities, interest expense, and transactional foreign exchange gains and losses.
Income Tax Expense
Income tax expense consists of U.S. federal and state income taxes and income taxes in certain foreign jurisdictions in which we conduct business. We maintain a full valuation allowance on our federal and state deferred tax assets as we have concluded that it is not more likely than not that the deferred tax assets will be realized.
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Results of Operations
Comparison of the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023
The following table summarizes our results of operations data for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023:
| Year Ended December 31, | Change | ||||||||||||
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| 2024 | 2023 | $ | % | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||
| Revenues: | |||||||||||||
| Software products and services | $ | 180,365 | $ | 159,124 | $ | 21,241 | 13% | ||||||
| Drug discovery | 27,174 | 57,542 | (30,368) | (53)% | |||||||||
| Total revenues | 207,539 | 216,666 | (9,127) | (4)% | |||||||||
| Cost of revenues: | |||||||||||||
| Software products and services | 36,900 | 29,514 | 7,386 | 25% | |||||||||
| Drug discovery | 38,556 | 46,460 | (7,904) | (17)% | |||||||||
| Total cost of revenues | 75,456 | 75,974 | (518) | (1)% | |||||||||
| Gross profit | 132,083 | 140,692 | (8,609) | (6)% | |||||||||
| Operating expenses: | |||||||||||||
| Research and development | 201,785 | 181,766 | 20,019 | 11% | |||||||||
| Sales and marketing | 39,917 | 37,226 | 2,691 | 7% | |||||||||
| General and administrative | 99,677 | 99,148 | 529 | 1% | |||||||||
| Total operating expenses | 341,379 | 318,140 | 23,239 | 7% | |||||||||
| Loss from operations | (209,296) | (177,448) | (31,848) | 18% | |||||||||
| Other income: | |||||||||||||
| Gain on equity investments | — | 147,213 | (147,213) | N/M | |||||||||
| Change in fair value | 5,683 | 53,461 | (47,778) | N/M | |||||||||
| Other income | 17,902 | 19,693 | (1,791) | N/M | |||||||||
| Total other income | 23,585 | 220,367 | (196,782) | N/M | |||||||||
| (Loss) income before income taxes | (185,711) | 42,919 | (228,630) | N/M | |||||||||
| Income tax expense | 1,412 | 2,199 | (787) | N/M | |||||||||
| Net (loss) income | $ | (187,123) | $ | 40,720 | $ | (227,843) | N/M |
N/M – not meaningful
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Revenues
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| 2024 | 2023 | $ | % | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||
| Revenues: | |||||||||||||
| Software | |||||||||||||
| On-premise software | $ | 104,020 | $ | 104,511 | $ | (491) | —% | ||||||
| Hosted software | 35,253 | 20,381 | 14,872 | 73% | |||||||||
| Software maintenance | 23,279 | 23,066 | 213 | 1% | |||||||||
| Professional services | 9,797 | 9,366 | 431 | 5% | |||||||||
| Software contribution | 8,016 | 1,800 | 6,216 | 345% | |||||||||
| Total software products and services | 180,365 | 159,124 | 21,241 | 13% | |||||||||
| Drug discovery | |||||||||||||
| Drug discovery services | 25,143 | 54,720 | (29,577) | (54)% | |||||||||
| Drug discovery contribution | 2,031 | 2,822 | (791) | (28)% | |||||||||
| Total drug discovery | 27,174 | 57,542 | (30,368) | (53)% | |||||||||
| Total revenues | $ | 207,539 | $ | 216,666 | $ | (9,127) | (4)% |
Software Products and Services Revenue
On-premise software. The decrease in revenues for on-premise software during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 was primarily attributable to a decrease in multi-year customer contracts with upfront revenue recognition in the current period versus the comparable period.
Hosted software. The increase in revenues for hosted software during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 was primarily due to customers switching from on premise to hosted software purchases, as well as increased spend from existing hosted customers and growth in new customers purchasing hosted software subscriptions, for which revenue is recognized ratably over the period of the contract.
Software maintenance. Software maintenance revenues remained consistent during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 primarily due to the fluctuation of on-premise software renewal periods, including multi-year customer arrangements, in the current period versus the comparable period, as well as increased spend from existing customers. Software maintenance revenue is recognized ratably over the period of the contract.
Professional services. Professional services revenues remained consistent during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 primarily due to the progress and completion of technology and modeling service projects.
Software contribution revenue. The increase in software contribution revenues during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 was due to the agreements with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation entered into during the year ended December 31, 2024, aimed to accelerate the expansion of our computational software platform, and the extension of the agreement with Gates Ventures, LLC.
Drug Discovery Revenue
Drug discovery services. The decrease in revenues for drug discovery services during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 was primarily due to the timing and amount of collaboration milestones achieved, including $25.0 million received from BMS during the year ended December 31, 2023, as well as BMS electing not to proceed with further development for two programs during 2023, which resulted in increased revenue recognition due to the accelerated completion of our obligations related to such programs during the year ended December 31, 2023. This decrease was partially offset by collaboration milestones achieved in 2024, as well as the progress of
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existing and new collaborations. We expect that our revenue will fluctuate from period to period due to the inherently uncertain nature of the timing of milestone achievement and our dependence on the program decisions of our collaborators.
Drug discovery contribution revenue. The decrease in drug discovery contribution revenue during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 was due to fluctuation in allotted funds spent under an agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aimed at accelerating drug discovery in women’s health, which began in November 2021.
Cost of Revenues
| Year Ended December 31, | Change | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | $ | % | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||
| Cost of revenues: | |||||||||||||
| Software products and services | $ | 36,900 | $ | 29,514 | $ | 7,386 | 25% | ||||||
| Gross margin | 80 | % | 81 | % | |||||||||
| Drug discovery | 38,556 | 46,460 | (7,904) | (17)% |
Software products and services. The increase in cost of revenues for software products and services during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 was attributable to increases of approximately $4.3 million in cloud computing expense and approximately $3.3 million in personnel-related expense, partially offset by a decrease of approximately $0.2 million in royalty expense.
Software products and services gross margin. The decrease in software gross margin during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 was primarily due to an increase in expenses related to our agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate the expansion of our computational software platform, partially offset by an increase in revenue.
Drug discovery. The decrease in cost of revenues for drug discovery during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 was attributable to decreases of approximately $7.9 million in third-party CRO costs due to the discontinuation of certain collaboration projects and approximately $0.9 million in personnel-related expense reflecting the redeployment of our discovery organization towards proprietary drug discovery programs, partially offset by approximately $0.6 million in royalty expense and approximately $0.3 million in cloud computing expense.
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Research and Development Expense
A significant portion of our research and development costs have been external preclinical and clinical CRO costs, which we track on a program-by-program basis related to a product candidate, once the candidate has been identified. Our internal research and development costs are primarily personnel-related costs, rent expense, and other indirect costs and are not tracked on a program-by-program basis. All other research and development costs are related to non-program related costs. The following table summarizes our research and development expense for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023:
| Year Ended December 31, | Change | |||||||||
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| 2024 | 2023 | $ | % | |||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||
| External costs by program: | ||||||||||
| SGR-1505 | $10,693 | $15,337 | $ | (4,644) | (30)% | |||||
| SGR-2921 | 10,290 | 6,090 | 4,200 | 69% | ||||||
| SGR-3515 | 5,930 | 6,363 | (433) | (7)% | ||||||
| Other early development candidates and unallocated costs | 32,371 | 30,880 | 1,491 | 5% | ||||||
| Total external costs for programs in preclinical and clinical development | 59,284 | 58,670 | 614 | 1% | ||||||
| Internal costs for discovery, preclinical and clinical development: | ||||||||||
| Employee compensation and benefits | 41,262 | 32,949 | 8,313 | 25% | ||||||
| Facility and other | 2,233 | 2,015 | 218 | 11% | ||||||
| Total internal costs | 43,495 | 34,964 | 8,531 | 24% | ||||||
| All other research and development | 99,006 | 88,132 | 10,874 | 12% | ||||||
| Total research and development expense | $201,785 | $181,766 | $20,019 | 11% |
The increase in external costs of $0.6 million during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 was primarily attributable to an increase in costs associated with the ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial and other development activities for SGR-2921, as well as other external research costs to support our early-stage product candidates, partially offset by a decrease in costs for SGR-1505 and SGR-3515 due to timing of work performed.
The increase in internal costs for programs in discovery, preclinical and clinical development of $8.5 million during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 was primarily attributable to an increase in personnel-related expense and rent expense.
The increase in all other research and development expense during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 was attributable to increases of approximately $4.8 million in personnel-related expense, approximately $3.5 million in cloud computing expense, approximately $1.4 million related to office rent, approximately $0.7 million related to professional services, and approximately $0.5 million in other expenses.
Sales and Marketing Expense
| Year Ended December 31, | Change | ||||||||||||
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| 2024 | 2023 | $ | % | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | $ | 39,917 | $ | 37,226 | $ | 2,691 | 7% |
The increase in sales and marketing expense during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 was attributable to increases of approximately $2.1 million in personnel-related expense, approximately $0.6 million in travel and entertainment expense, and approximately $0.3 million in cloud computing expense, partially offset by decreases of approximately $0.1 million related to office facilities and approximately $0.2 million in other expenses.
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General and Administrative Expense
| Year Ended December 31, | Change | ||||||||||||
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| 2024 | 2023 | $ | % | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||
| General and administrative | $ | 99,677 | $ | 99,148 | $ | 529 | 1% |
The increase in general and administrative expense during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 was attributable to increases of approximately $5.0 million of personnel-related expense, approximately $2.2 million related to professional services, and approximately $0.4 million in cloud computing expense, partially offset by decreases of approximately $4.3 million in royalties related to cash distributions we received from Nimbus, approximately $0.5 million in amortization related to the acceleration of customer relationship intangible assets, approximately $0.4 million in travel and entertainment expense, approximately $0.1 million related to office facilities, and approximately $1.8 million in other expenses.
Gain on Equity Investments
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
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| 2024 | 2023 | Change | ||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||
| Gain on equity investments | $ | — | $ | 147,213 | $ | (147,213) |
There was no gain on equity investments during the year ended December 31, 2024. The gain on equity investments during the year ended December 31, 2023 was due to the realized gain on our equity investment in Nimbus following the closing of Takeda's acquisition of Nimbus Lakshmi, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nimbus, and its tyrosine kinase 2 inhibitor, NDI-034858.
Change in Fair Value
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
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| 2024 | 2023 | Change | ||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||
| Change in fair value | $ | 5,683 | $ | 53,461 | $ | (47,778) |
The change in fair value during the year ended December 31, 2024 was primarily due to an unrealized gain on our investment in Morphic of $23.5 million, partially offset by an unrealized loss on our investment in Structure Therapeutics of $18.1 million. The change in fair value during the year ended December 31, 2023 was due to an unrealized gain on our investment in Structure Therapeutics of $49.8 million, an unrealized gain on our investment in Nimbus of $1.9 million, and an unrealized gain on our investment in Morphic of $1.8 million.
Other Income
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
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| 2024 | 2023 | Change | ||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||
| Other income | $ | 17,902 | $ | 19,693 | $ | (1,791) |
The decrease in other income during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 was primarily attributable to a decrease of approximately $1.2 million in interest income on our investment portfolio and a decrease of approximately $0.6 million primarily related to unfavorable foreign currency fluctuations.
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Income Tax Expense
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
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| 2024 | 2023 | Change | ||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||
| Income tax expense | $ | 1,412 | $ | 2,199 | $ | (787) |
Income tax expense for the year ended December 31, 2024 represents state income tax obligations and taxes in foreign jurisdictions for which we conduct business. Income tax expense for the year ended December 31, 2023 represents our federal and certain state income tax obligations and taxes in foreign jurisdictions for which we conduct business. As of December 31, 2024, we have a full valuation allowance on our U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets.
At December 31, 2024, we had federal and state net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $204.5 million and $129.5 million, respectively. The state net operating loss carryforwards will expire between 2025 and 2044, if not utilized. The federal net operating loss carryforwards are limited to 80% of taxable income generated in a given year and carry forward indefinitely. At December 31, 2024, we had federal orphan drug credits and federal research and development tax credit carryforwards of approximately $31.3 million and state research and development tax credit carryforwards of approximately $2.7 million. These carryforwards will expire between 2025 and 2044, if not utilized.
As required by ASC Topic 740, Income Taxes, our management has evaluated the positive and negative evidence bearing upon the realizability of our deferred tax assets, which are composed principally of net operating loss carryforwards and research and development credit carryforwards. Management has determined that it is more likely than not that we will not realize the benefits of our federal and state deferred tax assets and, as a result, a valuation allowance of $177.2 million and $136.0 million has been established at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The change in the valuation allowance for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 was $41.2 million and $1.9 million, respectively. We recorded income tax expense of $1.4 million and $2.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
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Quarterly Results of Operations
The following tables summarize our selected unaudited quarterly results of operations data for each of the eight quarters in the period ended December 31, 2024. The information for each of these quarters has been prepared on the same basis as our audited annual consolidated financial statements and reflect, in the opinion of management, all adjustments of a normal, recurring nature that are necessary for the fair statement of the results of operations for these periods. This data should be read in conjunction with our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report. Historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full fiscal year or any other period.
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| 2024 | 2024 | 2024 | 2024 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services | $ | 79,662 | $ | 31,884 | $ | 35,404 | $ | 33,415 | $ | 68,655 | $ | 28,904 | $ | 29,352 | $ | 32,213 | ||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | 8,655 | 3,406 | 11,930 | 3,183 | 5,471 | 13,665 | 5,837 | 32,569 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total revenues | 88,317 | 35,290 | 47,334 | 36,598 | 74,126 | 42,569 | 35,189 | 64,782 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services(1) | 13,278 | 8,479 | 7,167 | 7,976 | 8,670 | 7,034 | 6,695 | 7,115 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery(1) | 10,909 | 9,083 | 8,832 | 9,732 | 7,906 | 11,896 | 14,684 | 11,974 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total cost of revenues | 24,187 | 17,562 | 15,999 | 17,708 | 16,576 | 18,930 | 21,379 | 19,089 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gross profit | 64,130 | 17,728 | 31,335 | 18,890 | 57,550 | 23,639 | 13,810 | 45,693 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating expenses: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Research and development(1) | 49,362 | 50,977 | 50,835 | 50,611 | 51,487 | 46,833 | 42,705 | 40,741 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing(1) | 9,704 | 10,349 | 9,693 | 10,171 | 9,950 | 9,109 | 9,022 | 9,145 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative(1) | 25,776 | 24,824 | 23,536 | 25,541 | 25,734 | 23,890 | 23,216 | 26,308 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total operating expenses | 84,842 | 86,150 | 84,064 | 86,323 | 87,171 | 79,832 | 74,943 | 76,194 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loss from operations | (20,712) | (68,422) | (52,729) | (67,433) | (29,621) | (56,193) | (61,133) | (30,501) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other (expense) income: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Loss) gain on equity investments | — | — | — | — | (109) | — | — | 147,322 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Change in fair value | (22,080) | 25,459 | (5,833) | 8,137 | (8,408) | (14,522) | 40,654 | 35,737 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other income | 3,539 | 4,737 | 4,598 | 5,028 | 6,626 | 5,804 | 4,326 | 2,937 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total other (expense) income | (18,541) | 30,196 | (1,235) | 13,165 | (1,891) | (8,718) | 44,980 | 185,996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Loss) income before income taxes | (39,253) | (38,226) | (53,964) | (54,268) | (31,512) | (64,911) | (16,153) | 155,495 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Income tax expense (benefit) | 963 | (90) | 83 | 456 | (842) | (2,887) | (20,431) | 26,359 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net (loss) income | $ | (40,216) | $ | (38,136) | $ | (54,047) | $ | (54,724) | $ | (30,670) | $ | (62,024) | $ | 4,278 | $ | 129,136 |
(1)Includes stock-based compensation as indicated in the table located further below.
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Revenues:
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| 2024 | 2024 | 2024 | 2024 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Software | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| On-premise software | $ | 55,393 | $ | 12,250 | $ | 18,758 | $ | 17,619 | $ | 53,947 | $ | 13,806 | $ | 16,814 | $ | 19,944 | ||||||||||||||
| Hosted software | 11,176 | 8,814 | 8,087 | 7,176 | 6,016 | 5,463 | 4,451 | 4,451 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software maintenance | 5,886 | 5,658 | 5,840 | 5,895 | 5,687 | 5,752 | 5,877 | 5,750 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Professional services | 2,315 | 2,038 | 2,719 | 2,725 | 3,005 | 2,083 | 2,210 | 2,068 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenue from contracts with customers | 74,770 | 28,760 | 35,404 | 33,415 | 68,655 | 27,104 | 29,352 | 32,213 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software contribution | 4,892 | 3,124 | — | — | — | 1,800 | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total software products and services revenue | 79,662 | 31,884 | 35,404 | 33,415 | 68,655 | 28,904 | 29,352 | 32,213 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery services | 8,132 | 2,813 | 11,506 | 2,692 | 4,955 | 12,730 | 5,232 | 31,803 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery contribution | 523 | 593 | 424 | 491 | 516 | 935 | 605 | 766 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total drug discovery revenue | 8,655 | 3,406 | 11,930 | 3,183 | 5,471 | 13,665 | 5,837 | 32,569 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total revenues | $ | 88,317 | $ | 35,290 | $ | 47,334 | $ | 36,598 | $ | 74,126 | $ | 42,569 | $ | 35,189 | $ | 64,782 |
Deferred Revenue:
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| Deferred revenue | $ | 220,758 | $ | 46,973 | $ | 47,879 | $ | 57,513 | $ | 65,274 | $ | 55,415 | $ | 62,294 | $ | 71,926 |
Gross Margin:
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | ||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 2024 | 2024 | 2024 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | ||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services gross margin | 83 | % | 73 | % | 80 | % | 76 | % | 87 | % | 76 | % | 77 | % | 78 | % |
Stock-Based Compensation:
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| Cost of revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services | $ | 664 | $ | 665 | $ | 669 | $ | 645 | $ | 671 | $ | 654 | $ | 625 | $ | 600 | ||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | $ | 538 | $ | 573 | $ | 691 | $ | 490 | $ | 585 | $ | 580 | $ | 765 | $ | 699 | ||||||||||||||
| Research and development | $ | 4,152 | $ | 4,218 | $ | 4,228 | $ | 4,066 | $ | 4,070 | $ | 4,101 | $ | 3,807 | $ | 3,514 | ||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | $ | 988 | $ | 971 | $ | 968 | $ | 974 | $ | 935 | $ | 914 | $ | 941 | $ | 851 | ||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | $ | 6,137 | $ | 5,971 | $ | 6,252 | $ | 6,043 | $ | 6,272 | $ | 6,405 | $ | 5,635 | $ | 5,217 | ||||||||||||||
| Total stock-based compensation expense | $ | 12,479 | $ | 12,398 | $ | 12,808 | $ | 12,218 | $ | 12,533 | $ | 12,654 | $ | 11,773 | $ | 10,881 |
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Depreciation and Amortization:
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| Depreciation and amortization: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Software products and services | $ | 130 | $ | 135 | $ | 120 | $ | 122 | $ | 124 | $ | 109 | $ | 101 | $ | 112 | ||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | $ | 181 | $ | 158 | $ | 108 | $ | 120 | $ | 83 | $ | 110 | $ | 130 | $ | 116 | ||||||||||||||
| Research and development | $ | 897 | $ | 878 | $ | 793 | $ | 780 | $ | 710 | $ | 591 | $ | 525 | $ | 518 | ||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | $ | 159 | $ | 174 | $ | 169 | $ | 165 | $ | 151 | $ | 172 | $ | 141 | $ | 140 | ||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | $ | 266 | $ | 262 | $ | 264 | $ | 278 | $ | 286 | $ | 291 | $ | 268 | $ | 874 | ||||||||||||||
| Total depreciation and amortization expense | $ | 1,633 | $ | 1,607 | $ | 1,454 | $ | 1,465 | $ | 1,354 | $ | 1,273 | $ | 1,165 | $ | 1,760 |
Quarterly Revenue Trends
On-premise software revenue is subject to seasonality that generally favors the first and fourth quarter of each year, primarily due to the timing of customer renewals for on-premise software arrangements, for which revenue is recognized at a single point in time. Hosted software revenue grew more steadily over the periods presented, as existing customers and new customers increased their spend on hosted solutions, for which revenue is recognized ratably over the term of the contract. As a result, a portion of the software products and services revenue we reported in each period was attributable to sales we made in prior periods. Software maintenance revenue is related to on-premise software sales and also is recognized ratably over the term of the underlying agreement. Therefore, increases or decreases in customer sales, customer expansion, or renewals in a period may not be immediately reflected in revenue for the period. Our professional services arrangements are typically project-based and, therefore, fluctuated based on individual customer needs and ongoing project support. Drug discovery revenue fluctuated from period to period based on the achievement of specific collaboration milestones, as well as advancements of collaborative services.
Milestone payments typically increase in magnitude as a program advances.
Quarterly Deferred Revenue Trends
Deferred revenue consists of the unearned portion of customer billings, which is recognized as revenue in accordance with our revenue recognition policy, as well as the unearned portion of unbilled collaboration milestones that are deemed probable in advance of actual achievement. Deferred revenue balances have fluctuated based on the measurement of progress toward completion for service projects, the timing of sales, shifts in product mix, and fluctuations to the number and size of milestones that were deemed probable in advance of actual achievement.
Quarterly Gross Margin Trends
Our software products and services gross margin experienced fluctuations over the periods presented due to increased headcount and the product mix for software and services, as the cost of royalties due on sales of our hosted software is recognized upfront, while the associated revenue is recognized over the term of the related agreement. Currently, gross margin is less meaningful for measuring the operating results of our drug discovery business.
Quarterly Operating Expense Trends
Operating expenses generally increased during the periods presented due to increased headcount and personnel-related expenses involved in research and development, sales and marketing, general and administrative activities, and CRO costs related to our proprietary drug discovery programs. These increases in headcount across our operations have supported the overall growth and management of our business. CRO cost increases were driven by the expansion and progression of our proprietary drug discovery programs.
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Quarterly Other (Expense) Income Trends
Other (expense) income during the periods presented consisted primarily of fair value gains and losses related to our equity investments in Morphic and Structure Therapeutics, and, to a lesser degree, interest income.
Segment Information
See Note 14 – Segment Reporting in our audited consolidated financial statements for additional information regarding our segments.
Liquidity, Capital Resources and Funding Requirements
We have a history of significant operating losses and have incurred negative cash flows from operations from inception through the year ended December 31, 2024. As of December 31, 2024, we had an accumulated deficit of $525.5 million.
We have funded our operations to date principally from the sale of our equity securities, including our initial public offering and our follow-on public offering, and to a lesser extent, from sales of our software solutions and from upfront payments, research funding and milestone payments from our drug discovery collaborations, and from distributions on account of, or proceeds from the sale of, our equity stakes in our collaborators. Our operating cash flows are impacted by the magnitude and timing of our software sales and by the magnitude and timing of our drug discovery milestone achievements and research funding fees.
On February 28, 2024, we filed a universal shelf registration statement on Form S-3 which allows us to offer and sell an indeterminate number of shares of common stock, preferred stock, depositary shares or warrants, or an indeterminate principal amount of debt securities, from time to time pursuant to one or more offerings at prices and terms to be determined at the time of the sale.
In February 2024, we entered into an amended and restated sales agreement with Leerink Partners LLC (formerly SVB Securities LLC), or Leerink Partners, as sales agent, with respect to an at-the-market offering program, or the ATM, under which we could offer and sell, from time to time pursuant to our Registration Statement on Form S-3, shares of common stock, having an aggregate offering price of up to $250.0 million through Leerink Partners. The amended and restated sales agreement amends and restates the original sales agreement that we entered into with Leerink Partners with respect to the ATM in May 2023, which is no longer in effect. As of December 31, 2024, 323,085 shares of common stock, were sold under the ATM for total net proceeds of $8.7 million and gross proceeds of $8.9 million, before deducting sales agent commissions. As of December 31, 2024, we had $241.1 million of common stock remaining available for sale under the ATM.
As of December 31, 2024, we had cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash, and marketable securities of $367.5 million. In January 2025, we received the upfront payment of $150.0 million from Novartis in connection with entering into our research collaboration and license agreement with Novartis.
We believe our existing cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities as of December 31, 2024, together with the upfront payment we received from Novartis, will be sufficient to fund our operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements through at least the next 24 months. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including the growth of our software revenue, the timing and extent of spending to support research and development efforts, the continued expansion of software sales and marketing activities, the timing and receipt of milestone payments from our collaborations, as well as spending to support, advance, and broaden our proprietary drug discovery programs. Furthermore, our capital requirements will also change depending on the timing and receipt of any distributions we may receive from our equity stakes in our drug discovery collaborators. The potential for these distributions, and the amounts which we may be entitled to receive, are difficult to predict due to the inherent uncertainty of the events which may trigger such distributions.
We plan to utilize the existing cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities on hand primarily to fund our software and drug discovery activities. With respect to our proprietary drug discovery programs, as part of our strategy we may choose to advance them into preclinical and clinical development ourselves, enter into collaborations to co-develop them with leading industry partners, or out-license them to maximize their clinical and commercial opportunities.
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We may be required to seek additional equity or debt financing. In the event that we require additional financing, we may not be able to raise such financing on terms acceptable to us or at all. If we are unable to raise additional capital or generate cash flows necessary to maintain or expand our operations and invest in our platform, we may not be able to compete successfully, which would harm our business, operations and financial condition. In addition, we may seek additional capital due to favorable market conditions or strategic considerations, even if we believe we have sufficient funds for our current or future operating plans.
Our contractual obligations as of December 31, 2024 include lease obligations of $177.5 million, consisting of our continuing rent obligations through December 2037, primarily for our office located in New York, New York for $136.0 million, which expires in December 2037. In addition, see Note 6 – Commitments and Contingencies to our consolidated financial statements appearing in Item 8 of this Annual Report for more information relating to our operating lease obligations.
In December 2022, we entered into an agreement with a third-party to establish an exclusive integrated drug discovery dedicated facility in Hyderabad, India. The agreement contains a minimum payment obligation, which totals $21.8 million over five years after the date of first occupancy.
In December 2020, we entered into a five-year agreement with a third-party cloud provider for compute power. The agreement contains a minimum payment obligation, which totals $60.0 million over the five years after the date we entered into the agreement. There is no annual commitment.
We also enter into agreements in the normal course of business with CRO vendors for research, preclinical studies, and clinical trials, professional consultants for expert advice, and other vendors for various products and services. These contracts do not contain any minimum purchase commitments and are cancellable at any time by us, generally upon 30 days prior written notice, and therefore we believe that our non-cancelable obligations under these agreements are not material. We have also agreed to pay volume-based royalties to third-parties for use of software functionality under various licensing and related agreements. See Note 2 – Significant Accounting Policies to our audited consolidated financial statements appearing in Item 8 of this Annual Report for more information relating to our royalty obligations.
Cash Flows
The following table presents a summary of our cash flows for the periods shown:
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||
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| Net cash used in operating activities | $ | (157,368) | $ | (136,733) | ||
| Net cash provided by investing activities | 148,836 | 193,034 | ||||
| Net cash provided by financing activities | 10,123 | 9,048 | ||||
| Net increase in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash | $ | 1,591 | $ | 65,349 |
Operating activities
During the year ended December 31, 2024, operating activities used approximately $157.4 million of cash, primarily due to a net loss of $187.1 million, which included changes to our operating assets and liabilities of $13.1 million, a $5.7 million non-cash gain on changes in fair value, and $1.4 million of non-cash operating expenses, depreciation and investment accretion costs. These items were partially offset by $49.9 million of stock-based compensation.
During the year ended December 31, 2023, operating activities used approximately $136.7 million of cash, due to a $147.2 million gain from equity investments, of which the cash received is included in investing activities, $53.5 million of non-cash gain on changes in fair value, $22.4 million in changes in our operating assets and liabilities, and $2.1 million of non-cash operating expenses. These items were offset by a net income of $40.7 million, including depreciation and investment accretion costs and $47.8 million in stock-based compensation.
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Investing activities
During the year ended December 31, 2024, investing activities provided approximately $148.8 million of cash, consisting of $110.4 million provided by marketable securities maturities, net of purchases, and $48.8 million primarily provided by the disposition of equity investments. These items were partially offset by $7.3 million in cash used for purchases of property and equipment and $3.1 million primarily used for purchases of our equity investment in Ajax Therapeutics, Inc.
During the year ended December 31, 2023, investing activities provided approximately $193.0 million of cash, consisting of $147.2 million cash distributions received, on account of our equity investment in Nimbus, from Nimbus in connection with Takeda’s acquisition of Nimbus Lakshmi, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nimbus, and its TYK2 inhibitor NDI-034858 and $63.3 million provided by marketable securities maturities, net of purchases. These items were partially offset by $13.4 million in cash used for purchases of property and equipment, and $4.1 million used for purchases of our equity investment in Structure Therapeutics.
Financing activities
During the year ended December 31, 2024, financing activities provided approximately $10.1 million of cash, consisting of $8.7 million attributable to net proceeds received from the ATM and $1.4 million attributable to proceeds received from stock option exercises.
During the year ended December 31, 2023, financing activities provided approximately $9.0 million of cash, primarily attributable to proceeds from stock option exercises.
Seasonality
Generally, the first and fourth quarter of each year have been our largest quarters for software products and services revenue, primarily due to the timing of customer renewals of on-premise software arrangements, for which revenue is recognized at a single point in time. Seasonality has been a less significant factor for our hosted software arrangements, for which revenue is recognized ratably over time. Seasonality has not been a factor for our drug discovery revenues. Historical seasonality may not be indicative of future periods.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Critical accounting policies are those that are both most important to the portrayal of a company's financial condition and results, and that require management's most difficult, subjective, and complex judgments, often as a result of the need to make estimates about the effect of matters that are inherently uncertain. Our management’s discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations is based on our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of these consolidated financial statements requires us to make judgments and estimates that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities in our consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes. We base our estimates on historical experience, known trends and events, and our beliefs of what could occur in the future considering available information. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our judgments and estimates in light of changes in circumstances, facts, and experience. The effects of material revisions in estimates, if any, are reflected in the consolidated financial statements prospectively from the date of change in estimates.
While our significant accounting policies are described in more detail in Note 2 – Significant Accounting Policies to our consolidated financial statements appearing in Item 8 of this Annual Report, we believe the following critical accounting estimates used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements require the most difficult, subjective and complex judgments and estimates and have had, or are reasonably likely to have a material impact on our financial condition or results of operations.
Revenue
We recognize revenue in accordance with ASC Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, or Topic 606, except for contracts that are within the scope of other standards, such as contribution grants and certain collaboration arrangements. In accordance with Topic 606, we recognize revenue when our customer obtains control of promised goods or services, in an amount that reflects the consideration which we expect to receive in exchange for those goods or services.
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To determine revenue recognition for arrangements that we determine are within the scope of Topic 606, we perform the following five steps: (i) identify the contract(s) with a customer; (ii) identify the performance obligations in the contract; (iii) determine the transaction price; (iv) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; and (v) recognize revenue when or as we satisfy a performance obligation.
Significant management judgment is applied to determine the allocation of the transaction price and measurement of progress, including (1) the constraint on variable consideration, (2) the identification of performance obligations and allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations using their standalone selling price, or SSP, and (3) the appropriate input or output based method to recognize collaboration revenue and the extent of progress to date.
Variable consideration: Our revenue may include upfront payments for the performance of services in the future, which have both fixed and variable consideration. We include the unconstrained amount of estimated variable consideration in the transaction price. The amount included in the transaction price is constrained to the amount for which it is probable that a significant reversal of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur. At the end of each subsequent reporting period, we re-evaluate the estimated variable consideration included in the transaction price and any related constraint and, if necessary, adjust our estimate of the overall transaction price.
Research and development, regulatory or commercial milestones in our collaboration agreements may include some, but not necessarily all, of the following types of events:
•completion of preclinical research and development work leading to selection of product candidates;
•initiation of Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 clinical trials;
•filing of regulatory applications for marketing approval in the United States, Europe or Japan;
•marketing approval in major markets, such as the United States, Europe, or Japan;
•commercial milestones and/or commercial royalties; and
•achievement of certain other technical, scientific, or development criteria.
At the inception of each arrangement that includes research, development, or regulatory milestone payments, we evaluate whether the milestones are considered probable of being reached and estimate the amount to be included in the transaction price using the most likely amount method. If it is probable that a significant revenue reversal would not occur, the associated milestone value is included in the transaction price. Milestone payments that are not within our control or that of the licensee, such as certain regulatory approvals, are not considered probable of being achieved until those approvals are received. The transaction price is then allocated to each performance obligation on an SSP basis consistent with the allocation objectives of Topic 606, for which we recognize revenue as or when the performance obligations under the contract are satisfied. At the end of each subsequent reporting period, we re-evaluate the probability of achievement of such development milestones and any related constraint, and if necessary, adjust our estimate of the overall transaction price. Any such adjustments are recorded on a cumulative catch-up basis, which may affect license, collaboration, and other revenues and earnings in the period of adjustment. The process of successfully achieving the criteria for the milestone payments is highly uncertain. Consequently, there is a risk that we may not earn all of the milestone payments from each of our collaborators. We recognized $14.1 million and $27.7 million from drug discovery milestones for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Software performance obligations and transaction price allocation: At contract inception, we assess the goods or services promised within each contract that falls under the scope of Topic 606 to identify distinct performance obligations, which requires the most difficult, subjective, and complex judgments based on the nature of each transaction. We allocate the transaction price to each distinct performance obligation on an SSP basis. We determine the SSP using information that includes historical discounting practices, market conditions, cost-plus analysis, and other observable inputs. We typically have more than one SSP for individual software license performance obligations due to the stratification of those items by classes of customers and circumstances. In these instances, we may use information such as the size and geographic region of the customer in determining the SSP. We may also estimate SSP based on management judgment by considering available data such as internal cost and margin objectives, pricing strategies, market/competitive conditions, historical profitability data, as well as other observable inputs. We establish SSP ranges for our products and services and reassess them periodically. The determination of SSP required significant management judgment.
Collaboration agreement performance obligations, transaction price allocation, and measurement of progress: At the inception of each arrangement, we utilize judgment to assess the nature of the performance obligations to determine
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whether they are distinct or a single combined performance obligation. We allocate the transaction price to each performance obligation based on the relative SSP of each performance obligation at inception. We determine the SSP at contract inception of the research activities based on internal estimates of the costs to perform the services, inclusive of a reasonable profit margin. Significant judgment is used to determine the inputs for total costs to perform the research activities, which may include the length of time required, the internal hours expected to be incurred on the services and the number and costs of various studies that will be performed by third-parties to complete the research plan. Revenue is recognized on a proportional performance basis over the period of service, using input-based measurements to estimate the performance. Changes to these assumptions may have a material effect on the amount and timing of revenue recognized. We recognized revenue of $8.3 million and $25.1 million related to collaboration agreements with proportional performance measurement for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
See Note 2 – Significant Accounting Policies to our consolidated financial statements appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report for a discussion of recently issued accounting pronouncements.
FY 2023 10-K MD&A
SEC filing source: 0001490978-24-000018.
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations together with our consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report. Some of the information contained in this discussion and analysis or set forth elsewhere in this Annual Report, including information with respect to our plans and strategy for our business, includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations covers fiscal 2023 and fiscal 2022 items and year-over-year comparisons between fiscal 2023 and fiscal 2022. Discussions of fiscal 2021 items and year-over-year comparisons between fiscal 2022 and 2021 that are not included in this Form 10-K can be found in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Part II, Item 7 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, that was filed with the SEC on February 28, 2023.
As a result of many factors, including those factors set forth in “Risk Factors” of this Annual Report, our actual results could differ materially from the results described in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in the following discussion and analysis. For further information regarding our forward-looking statements, see “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Industry Data” in this Annual Report.
Overview
We are transforming the way therapeutics and materials are discovered. Our differentiated, physics-based computational platform enables discovery of high-quality, novel molecules for drug development and materials applications more rapidly and at a lower cost, compared to traditional methods. Our software platform is licensed by biopharmaceutical and industrial companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories around the world. We are applying our computational platform to advance a broad pipeline of drug discovery programs in collaboration with leading biopharmaceutical companies. In addition, we use our computational platform to discover novel molecules for our pipeline of proprietary drug discovery programs, which we are advancing through preclinical and clinical development.
Since our founding, we have been primarily focused on developing our computational platform, which is capable of predicting critical properties of molecules with a high degree of accuracy, as well as advancing drug discovery programs both with our collaborators and on our own. We have devoted substantially all of our resources to introducing new capabilities and refining our software, conducting research and development activities, recruiting skilled personnel, and providing general and administrative support for these operations.
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Over the last decade, we have entered into a number of collaborations with leading biopharmaceutical companies that have provided us with significant income and have the potential to produce additional milestone payments, option fees, and future royalties. In 2018, we began to develop a pipeline of proprietary drug discovery programs with the goal of using our platform to produce a portfolio of novel, high value therapeutics. In June 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, cleared our first investigational new drug application, or IND, for our MALT1 inhibitor, which we refer to as SGR-1505. We have initiated dosing in a Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-1505 in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell lymphomas and we anticipate reporting initial data from the trial in late 2024 or 2025. We also completed a Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-1505 in 73 healthy volunteers to gather additional data, including data relating to the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of SGR-1505, as well as the effect of food and drug-drug interactions. In the healthy volunteer trial, SGR-1505 was well tolerated with no drug-related serious adverse events or dose limiting toxicities observed. In the trial, we observed that SGR-1505 achieved greater than 90 percent inhibition of IL-2 secretion in an activated T cell whole blood assay, confirming target engagement and meeting the pharmacodynamic goals for the trial. Inhibition of IL-2 secretion is a marker for target engagement and pathway modulation as it is tightly linked to MALT1 and the downstream NF-κB signaling. The data supported continued evaluation of SGR-1505 in the ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell lymphomas. In addition, the FDA recently granted orphan drug designation to SGR-1505 for the potential treatment of mantle cell lymphoma.
In July 2023, the FDA cleared our IND for our CDC7 inhibitor, which we refer to as SGR-2921. We have initiated dosing in a Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-2921 in patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia or high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome, and we anticipate reporting initial data from the trial in late 2024 or 2025. We are also advancing SGR-3515, our novel WEE1/MYT1 inhibitor for the treatment of solid tumors. We expect to submit an IND to the FDA for SGR-3515 in the first half of 2024, subject to favorable data from ongoing IND-enabling studies, and we plan to initiate a Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-3515 by the end of 2024, subject to receipt of regulatory clearance.
We have funded our operations to date principally from the sale of our equity securities, including our initial public offering and our follow-on public offering, and to a lesser extent, from sales of our software solutions and from upfront payments, research funding and milestone payments from our drug discovery collaborations, and from distributions on account of, or proceeds from the sale of, our equity stakes in our collaborators. On February 13, 2023, April 6, 2023, and November 9, 2023, on account of our equity stake in Nimbus Therapeutics, LLC, or Nimbus, we received cash distributions of $111.3 million, $35.8 million, and $0.1 million, respectively, from Nimbus in connection with Takeda’s acquisition of Nimbus Lakshmi, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nimbus, and its TYK2 inhibitor NDI-034858.
We currently conduct our operations through two reportable segments: software and drug discovery. The software segment is focused on selling our software to transform drug discovery across the life sciences industry, as well as to customers in materials science industries. The drug discovery segment is focused on generating revenue from a diverse portfolio of preclinical and clinical programs, internally and through collaborations, that have advanced to various stages of discovery and development.
Our software segment generates revenue from software product licenses, hosted software subscriptions, software maintenance, professional services, and contributions. The revenue we generate through our software solutions from each of our customers varies largely depending on the number of software licenses our customers purchase from us. The licenses that our customers purchase from us provide them the ability to perform a certain number of calculations used in the design of molecules for drug discovery or materials science. We deliver our software through either (i) a product license that permits our customers to install the software solution directly on their own in-house hardware and use it for a specified term, or (ii) a subscription that allows our customers to access our cloud-based software solution on their own hardware without taking control of licenses.
We currently generate drug discovery revenue from our collaborations, including upfront payments, research funding and discovery and development milestones. In the future, we may also derive drug discovery revenue from our collaborations from option fees, the achievement of regulatory and commercial milestones, and royalties on commercial drug sales. In addition to revenue from our collaborations, we may also derive drug discovery revenue from collaborating on or out-licensing our proprietary drug discovery programs when we believe it will help maximize our clinical and commercial opportunities for the program.
In November 2020, we entered into an exclusive, worldwide collaboration and license agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, or BMS, pursuant to which we and BMS agreed to collaborate in the discovery, research and development of small molecule compounds for biological targets in the oncology, neurology and immunology therapeutic areas. After mutual agreement on the targets(s) of interest, the Schrödinger therapeutics group is responsible for the
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discovery of development candidates. Once a development candidate meeting specified criteria for a target has been identified, BMS will be solely responsible for the development, manufacturing and commercialization of such development candidate. We are eligible to receive up to $1.5 billion in total milestone payments across the potential targets currently subject to the collaboration, of which we have received $25.0 million as of December 31, 2023, as well as a tiered percentage royalty on net sales of each product commercialized by BMS ranging from mid-single digits to low-double digits, subject to certain specified reductions. See “Collaboration and License Agreement” in Note 3 to our consolidated financial statements for additional information relating to this agreement.
In September 2022, we entered into a collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company, or Lilly, under which we are responsible for the discovery and optimization of small molecule compounds addressing an immunology target. Lilly will be responsible for the completion of preclinical development, clinical development and commercialization. Under the terms of the agreement we received an upfront payment and we are eligible to receive up to $425.0 million in discovery, development and commercial milestone payments. We are also eligible to receive low single- to low double-digit royalties on net sales of any products emerging from the collaboration in all markets.
We generated revenue of $216.7 million and $181.0 million in 2023 and 2022, respectively, representing a year-over-year growth of 20%. Our net income for the year ended December 31, 2023 was $40.7 million and our net loss for the year ended December 31, 2022 was $149.2 million.
Key Factors Affecting Our Performance
Ability to drive additional revenue from our software solutions from existing customers
Our large existing base of customers represents a significant opportunity for us to expand our revenue through increased utilization of our software. We had 1,785 and 1,748 active customers for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. We define the number of active customers as the number of customers who had an annual contract value, or ACV, of at least $1,000 in the fiscal year. We use $1,000 as a threshold for defining our active customers as this amount will generally exclude customers who only license our PyMOL software, which is our open-source molecular visualization system broadly available at low cost. The revenue that we generate through our software solutions from each of our customers varies depending on the number of licenses for each software solution that each customer purchases from us. Accordingly, we work with our customers to improve their experience and increase the utility of our platform in order to expand the scale at which they deploy our platform in their business. Biopharmaceutical companies are increasingly adopting our software at a larger scale, and we anticipate that this scaling-up will drive future revenue growth. Our ability to expand within our customer base is demonstrated by the increasing number of our customers with an ACV at higher thresholds, including customers with an ACV of at least $500,000 or $1.0 million. For the year ended December 31, 2023, we had 54 customers with an ACV of at least $500,000 compared to 52 for the year ended December 31, 2022. Furthermore, we had 27, 18, and 15 customers with an ACV of at least $1.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. We also had four customers with an ACV of at least $5.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, compared to four and two such customers for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
With respect to contracts that have a duration of one year or less, or contracts of more than one year in duration that are billed annually, we define ACV as the contract value billed during the applicable period. For contracts with a duration of more than one year that are billed upfront, ACV in each period represents the total billed contract value divided by the term. ACV should be viewed independently of revenue and does not represent revenue calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, or U.S. GAAP, on an annualized basis, as it is an operating metric that can be impacted by contract execution start and end dates and renewal rates. ACV is not intended to be a replacement for, or forecast of, revenue. Our ACV was $154.2 million and $140.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
Ability to retain our customer base for our software solutions
Another important driver of our performance is our ability to retain our customer base. We had 222, 227, and 190 customers with an ACV of at least $100,000 for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2023, our year-over-year customer retention rate for such customers was 92% and was 96% or higher for each of the previous nine fiscal years. Our customer retention rate for our customers with an ACV of at least $500,000 was 98% for the year ended December 31, 2023 and 100% for the year ended December 31, 2022. We calculate year-over-year customer retention for our customers with an ACV of at least $100,000 or $500,000 by starting with the number of such customers we had in the previous fiscal year. We then calculate how many of these customers were active
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customers in the current fiscal year. We then divide this number by the number of customers with an ACV of at least $100,000 or $500,000, as applicable, that, we had in the previous fiscal year to arrive at the year-over-year customer retention rate for such customers.
We believe our sales and marketing approach and the quality of our software solutions result in long-term relationships and high retention with our largest customers. This is demonstrated by the length of our key relationships, with the average tenure of our 10 largest software customers in 2023 being nearly 19 years. Furthermore, we have significantly penetrated the pharmaceutical industry, with all of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies, measured by 2022 revenue, licensing our software in 2023. Our ability to continue to grow our software revenue is dependent upon our ability to retain customers through the continued support and investment in our sales and marketing efforts and the ongoing enhancement of our software solutions.
Advancement of our collaborative programs
We have entered into a number of collaborations with leading biopharmaceutical companies to advance drug discovery. We will seek to enter into additional collaboration agreements, driven by the synergies we expect to achieve between our platform and the capabilities and expertise of our potential collaborators. We believe that our collaborations will be a significant driver of value for us in the form of equity stakes, research fees, preclinical, clinical, and commercial milestone payments, and option fees, as well as royalties on any potential future sales of products, if approved. We continue to work with our current collaborators to advance existing programs through discovery research stages and initiate additional programs. However, we do not generally exercise control over the development programs of our collaborators and depend on our collaborators' decisions with respect to clinical development and commercialization. Our ability to continue to derive value from our collaborations will be driven by our capability to make progress in these programs, whether our collaborators successfully advance such programs beyond the discovery stage, and the strategic priorities of our collaboration partners. We track the aggregate number of collaborative programs for which we are eligible to receive any amount of royalties on sales and as of December 31, 2023, we had an aggregate of 12 collaborative programs for which we are eligible to receive future royalties compared to 15 collaborative programs as of December 31, 2022.
Ability to progress and expand our pipeline of proprietary drug discovery programs
We are advancing our pipeline of proprietary programs through preclinical and clinical development. Our initial programs were focused on discovering and developing inhibitors for targets in DNA damage response pathways and genetically defined cancers. Since then, we have expanded into other therapeutic areas, including immunology and neurology. We have initiated dosing in a Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-1505 in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell lymphomas as well as in a Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-2921 in patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia or high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome, and we anticipate reporting initial data from both clinical trials in late 2024 or 2025. In addition, we expect to submit an IND application to the FDA for SGR-3515 in the first half of 2024, subject to favorable data from IND-enabling studies, and we plan to initiate a Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-3515 by the end of 2024, subject to the receipt of regulatory clearance. We continue to advance new programs where we can leverage our computational platform to discover novel molecules, and we have recently announced new discovery-stage programs targeting PRMT5-MTA, EGFRC797S, and NLRP3. As we progress and expand our pipeline of proprietary programs, we will strategically evaluate on a program-by-program basis advancing them ourselves, entering into collaborations to co-develop them with leading industry partners, or out-licensing them to maximize their probability of clinical and commercial success.
Components of Results of Operations
Software Products and Services Revenue
Our software business generates revenue from five sources: (i) on-premise software license fees, (ii) hosted software subscription fees, (iii) software maintenance fees, (iv) professional services fees, and (v) contributions.
On-premise software. Our on-premise software license arrangements grant customers the right to use our software on their own in-house servers or their own cloud instances for a specified term, typically for one year, though in recent years, we have entered into a small number of large multi-year on-premise software license agreements. We recognize revenue for on-premise software license fees upfront, either upon transfer of control of the license or the effective date of the agreement, whichever is later.
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Hosted software. Hosted software revenue consists primarily of fees to provide our customers with hosted licenses, which allows these customers to access our cloud-based software solution on their own hardware without taking control of the licenses, and is recognized ratably over the term of the arrangement, which is typically one year, though in recent years, we have entered into a small number of large multi-year hosted software license agreements. When a customer enters into a hosted arrangement for which revenue is recognized over time, the amount paid upfront that is not recognized in the current period is included in deferred revenue in our statement of financial position until the period in which it is recognized.
Software maintenance. Software maintenance includes technical support, updates, and upgrades related to our on-premise software licenses. Software maintenance revenue is recognized ratably over the term of the arrangement. Software maintenance activities are performed in connection with the use of our on-premise software, and may fluctuate from period to period.
Professional services. Professional services include training, technical setup, installation or assisting customers with modeling services, where we use our software to perform tasks such as virtual screening on behalf of our customers. These services are generally not related to the core functionality of our software and are recognized as revenue when resources are consumed. Since each professional services agreement represents a unique, ad hoc engagement, professional services revenue may fluctuate from period to period.
Software contribution revenue. Software contribution revenue consists of funds received under a non-reciprocal agreement with Gates Ventures, LLC originally entered into in June 2020 and further extended through August 2026. The agreement is an unconditional non-exchange contribution without restrictions. Revenue was recognized annually from June 2020 through June 2022 and upon extension of the agreement in August 2023, when invoiced, in accordance with Accounting Standard Codification, or ASC, Topic 958, Not-for-Profit Entities as the agreement is not an exchange transaction.
Drug Discovery Revenue
Drug discovery services. We currently generate drug discovery revenue from discovery collaboration arrangements, including upfront payments, research and development payments, and discovery and development milestones. The majority of our current collaborations are in the discovery and preclinical development stages. Milestone payments typically increase in magnitude as a program advances. However, our focus is increasingly on investing in our proprietary drug discovery programs, which may result in a smaller number of collaborative programs over time and, as a result, fewer milestone payments on account of those collaborative programs. In addition to revenue from our collaborations, we may also derive drug discovery revenue from out-licensing our proprietary drug discovery programs when we believe it will help maximize the probability of clinical and commercial success of the program. Overall, we expect that our drug discovery revenue will fluctuate from period to period due to the inherently uncertain nature of the timing of milestone achievement and our dependence on the program decisions of our collaborators.
Drug discovery contribution revenue. Contribution revenue consists of funds received under agreements with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on a cost reimbursement basis, to perform services aimed at accelerating drug discovery in women’s health. Revenue is recognized as conditions are met in accordance with ASC Topic 958, Not-for-Profit Entities.
Cost of Revenues
Software products and services. Cost of revenues for software includes personnel-related expenses (comprised of salaries, benefits, and stock-based compensation) for employees directly involved in the delivery of software solutions, maintenance and professional services, royalties paid for products sold and services performed using third-party licensed software functionality, and allocated overhead (facilities and information technology support) costs. Pursuant to various third-party arrangements, we license technology that is used in our software. These arrangements require us to pay royalties based on sales volume, and such royalty payments represented 4.1% and 4.8% of software revenues in the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
Drug discovery. Costs of revenue for drug discovery includes personnel-related expenses and costs of third-party contract research organizations, or CROs, that support discovery activities in our collaborations, royalties paid for services performed using third-party licensed software functionality, allocated compute capacity and overhead costs. While we have incurred costs associated with discovery efforts since late 2017, we have recognized and expect to continue to recognize
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revenues in the future if and when milestones are deemed probable or achieved. Generally, drug discovery costs of revenue for collaborations are incurred in advance of the revenue milestone achievement.
Royalty payments to third-parties represented 3.5% and 4.8% of drug discovery revenues in the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. We expect our drug discovery costs of revenue to trend lower over time as we shift our focus to proprietary drug discovery programs.
Gross Profit and Gross Margin
Gross profit represents revenue less cost of revenues. Gross margin is gross profit expressed as a percentage of revenue. Our software products and services gross margin may fluctuate from period to period as our revenue fluctuates, and as a result of changes in sales mix between on-premise and hosted software solutions due to timing of recognition. For example, the cost of royalties due for sales of our hosted software arrangements are recognized upfront, whereas the associated hosted software revenue for these arrangements is recognized over the term of the underlying agreement.
While the gross margin of our drug discovery business will fluctuate significantly from period to period depending on factors such as the timing of recognition of milestones, we expect the gross margins to generally trend higher over time as more programs advance to later stages of development, the milestones increase in size and our ongoing research and development obligations to such programs decline in cost.
Research and Development Expense
Research and development expense accounts for a significant portion of our operating expenses. We recognize research and development expense as incurred. Research and development expense consists of drug discovery and development program costs and costs incurred for continuous development of the technology and science that supports our computational platform, primarily:
•personnel-related expenses, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation for employees engaged in research and development functions;
•expenses incurred under agreements with third-party CROs and consultants involved in our proprietary drug discovery programs; and
•allocated compute capacity on our proprietary drug discovery programs and overhead (facilities and information technology support) costs.
We expect our research and development expense to increase in absolute dollars as we continue to invest in activities related to discovery and development of our proprietary drug discovery programs, in advancing our computational platform, and as we incur expenses associated with hiring additional personnel directly involved in such efforts. The amount to which our research and development expense may increase in the future will also be dependent on our development plans for our proprietary drug discovery programs, including the timing of any partnering or out-licensing decisions. At this time, we do not know, nor can we reasonably estimate, the nature, timing, or costs of the efforts that will be necessary to complete the development of any of our proprietary drug discovery programs.
Sales and Marketing Expense
Sales and marketing expense consists primarily of personnel-related costs for our sales and marketing staff and application scientists supporting our sales efforts, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation. Other sales and marketing costs include promotional events that promote and expand knowledge of our company and platform, including industry conferences and events and our annual user group meetings in the United States and Europe, advertising, and allocated overhead costs. Due to the inherent scientific complexity of our software solutions, a high level of scientific expertise is needed to support our sales and marketing efforts. We plan to make focused investments in sales and marketing over the foreseeable future to foster the growth of our business as we aim to expand software sales to existing customers and increase our customer base.
General and Administrative Expense
General and administrative expense consists of personnel-related expenses associated with our executive, legal, finance, human resources, information technology, and other administrative functions, including salaries, benefits, bonuses,
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and stock-based compensation. General and administrative expense also includes professional fees for external legal, accounting and other consulting services, allocated overhead costs, and other general operating expenses.
We expect to continue to incur additional expenses as a result of operating as a public company, including costs to comply with the rules and regulations applicable to companies listed on a U.S. securities exchange and costs related to compliance and reporting obligations pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. In addition, as a public company, we expect to continue to incur increased expenses such as insurance and professional services. As a result, we expect the dollar amount of our general and administrative expense to increase for the foreseeable future.
Gain on Equity Investments
Gain on equity investments consists of realized gains in the form of cash distributions from our equity investments.
Change in Fair Value
Fair value gains and losses consist of adjustments to the fair value of our equity investments, which may include Nimbus, Structure Therapeutics Inc., or Structure Therapeutics, and Morphic Holding, Inc., or Morphic. We remeasure our investments at each period end.
We expect that fair value gains and losses will fluctuate significantly in future periods.
Other Income
Other income consists of interest earned on our cash equivalents and marketable securities, interest expense, and transactional foreign exchange gains and losses.
Income Tax Expense
Income tax expense consists of U.S. federal and state income taxes and income taxes in certain foreign jurisdictions in which we conduct business. We maintain a full valuation allowance on our federal and state deferred tax assets as we have concluded that it is not more likely than not that the deferred tax assets will be realized.
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Results of Operations
Comparison of the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022
The following table summarizes our results of operations data for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022:
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| 2023 | 2022 | $ | % | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||
| Revenues: | |||||||||||||
| Software products and services | $ | 159,124 | $ | 135,578 | $ | 23,546 | 17% | ||||||
| Drug discovery | 57,542 | 45,377 | 12,165 | 27% | |||||||||
| Total revenues | 216,666 | 180,955 | 35,711 | 20% | |||||||||
| Cost of revenues: | |||||||||||||
| Software products and services | 29,514 | 29,576 | (62) | —% | |||||||||
| Drug discovery | 46,460 | 50,357 | (3,897) | (8)% | |||||||||
| Total cost of revenues | 75,974 | 79,933 | (3,959) | (5)% | |||||||||
| Gross profit | 140,692 | 101,022 | 39,670 | 39% | |||||||||
| Operating expenses: | |||||||||||||
| Research and development | 181,766 | 126,372 | 55,394 | 44% | |||||||||
| Sales and marketing | 37,226 | 30,642 | 6,584 | 21% | |||||||||
| General and administrative | 99,148 | 90,825 | 8,323 | 9% | |||||||||
| Total operating expenses | 318,140 | 247,839 | 70,301 | 28% | |||||||||
| Loss from operations | (177,448) | (146,817) | (30,631) | 21% | |||||||||
| Other income (expense): | |||||||||||||
| Gain on equity investments | 147,213 | 11,825 | 135,388 | ||||||||||
| Change in fair value | 53,461 | (18,084) | 71,545 | ||||||||||
| Other income | 19,693 | 3,950 | 15,743 | ||||||||||
| Total other income (expense) | 220,367 | (2,309) | 222,676 | ||||||||||
| Income (loss) before income taxes | 42,919 | (149,126) | 192,045 | ||||||||||
| Income tax expense | 2,199 | 63 | 2,136 | ||||||||||
| Net income (loss) | 40,720 | (149,189) | 189,909 | ||||||||||
| Net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interest | — | (3) | 3 | ||||||||||
| Net income (loss) attributable to Schrödinger stockholders | $ | 40,720 | $ | (149,186) | $ | 189,906 |
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Revenues
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| Software | |||||||||||||
| On-premise software | $ | 104,511 | $ | 84,487 | $ | 20,024 | 24% | ||||||
| Hosted software | 20,381 | 14,890 | 5,491 | 37% | |||||||||
| Software maintenance | 23,066 | 19,996 | 3,070 | 15% | |||||||||
| Professional services | 9,366 | 15,205 | (5,839) | (38)% | |||||||||
| Software contribution | 1,800 | 1,000 | 800 | 80% | |||||||||
| Total software products and services | 159,124 | 135,578 | 23,546 | 17% | |||||||||
| Drug Discovery | |||||||||||||
| Drug discovery services | 54,720 | 43,427 | 11,293 | 26% | |||||||||
| Drug discovery contribution | 2,822 | 1,950 | 872 | 45% | |||||||||
| Total drug discovery | 57,542 | 45,377 | 12,165 | 27% | |||||||||
| Total revenues | $ | 216,666 | $ | 180,955 | $ | 35,711 | 20% |
Software Products and Services Revenue
On-premise software. The increase in revenues for on-premise software during the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2022 was primarily attributable to an increase in multi-year arrangements for which revenue was recognized ahead of annual billings, as well as growth from existing and new customers during the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2022.
Hosted software. The increase in revenues for hosted software during the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2022 was primarily due to increased spend from existing hosted customers, as well as growth in new customers purchasing hosted software subscriptions, for which revenue is recognized ratably over the period of the contract.
Software maintenance. The increase in revenues for software maintenance during the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2022 was primarily due to the increase in on-premise software sales in current and previous years. Software maintenance revenue is recognized ratably over the period of the contract.
Professional services. The decrease in revenues from professional services during the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2022 was primarily due to decreases of approximately $3.1 million in structural biology services and approximately $2.7 million related to progress and completion of technology and modeling service projects.
Software contribution revenue. Contribution revenue during the year ended December 31, 2023 and the year ended December 31, 2022 was due to funds received under an agreement with Gates Ventures, LLC, which began in June 2020 and was extended in August 2023.
Drug Discovery Revenue
Drug discovery services. The increase in revenues for drug discovery services during the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2022 was primarily due to the timing and amount of collaboration milestones achieved, including $25.0 million received from BMS, and the progress of existing and new collaborations accomplished during 2023 as compared to 2022. We expect that our revenue will fluctuate from period to period due to the inherently uncertain nature of the timing of milestone achievement and our dependence on the program decisions of our collaborators.
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Drug discovery contribution revenue. Contribution revenue during the year ended December 31, 2023 was due to services performed under an agreement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation aimed at accelerating drug discovery in women’s health, which began in November 2021.
Cost of Revenues
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| Software products and services | $ | 29,514 | $ | 29,576 | $ | (62) | —% | ||||||
| Gross margin | 81 | % | 78 | % | |||||||||
| Drug discovery | 46,460 | 50,357 | (3,897) | (8)% |
Software products and services. The decrease in cost of revenues for software products and services during the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2022 was attributable to decreases of approximately $0.9 million in personnel-related expense and approximately $0.1 million in other expenses, offset by an increase of approximately $0.9 million in cloud computing expense.
Software products and services gross margin. The increase in software gross margin during the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2022 was primarily due to an increase in software revenue and relatively flat fixed costs, which was due to the re-allocation of resources from cost of revenue to research and development activities.
Drug discovery. The decrease in cost of revenues for drug discovery during the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2022 was attributable to decreases of approximately $4.6 million in personnel-related expense reflecting the redeployment of our discovery organization towards proprietary drug discovery programs, approximately $0.5 million in cloud computing expense, and approximately $0.1 million in royalty expense, offset by increases of approximately $1.1 million in third-party CRO costs associated with the expansion and progression of collaborative programs, and approximately $0.2 million in other expenses.
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Research and Development Expense
A significant portion of our research and development costs have been external preclinical and clinical CRO costs, which we track on a program-by-program basis related to a product candidate, once the candidate has been identified. Our internal research and development costs are primarily personnel-related costs, rent expense, and other indirect costs and are not tracked on a program-by-program basis. All other research and development costs are related to non-program related costs. The following table summarizes our research and development expense for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022:
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| SGR-1505 | $15,337 | $7,635 | $7,702 | 101% | ||||||
| SGR-2921 | 6,090 | 4,430 | 1,660 | 37% | ||||||
| SGR-3515 | 6,363 | 8,533 | (2,170) | (25)% | ||||||
| Other early development candidates and unallocated costs | 30,880 | 14,621 | 16,259 | 111% | ||||||
| Total external costs for programs in preclinical and clinical development | 58,670 | 35,219 | 23,451 | 67% | ||||||
| Internal costs for discovery, preclinical and clinical development: | ||||||||||
| Employee compensation and benefits | 32,949 | 19,273 | 13,676 | 71% | ||||||
| Facility and other | 2,015 | 661 | 1,354 | 205% | ||||||
| Total internal costs | 34,964 | 19,934 | 15,030 | 75% | ||||||
| All other research and development | 88,132 | 71,219 | 16,913 | 24% | ||||||
| Total research and development expense | $181,766 | $126,372 | $55,394 | 44% |
The increase in external costs of $23.5 million during the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2022 was primarily attributable to an increase in costs associated with the ongoing Phase 1 clinical trials and other development activities for SGR-1505, as well as other external research costs to support our early-stage product candidates, including SGR-2921 and SGR-3515.
The increase in internal costs for programs in clinical and preclinical development of $15.0 million during the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2022 was primarily attributable to an increase in personnel-related expense and rent expense.
The increase in all other research and development expense during the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2022 was attributable to increases of approximately $8.4 million in personnel-related expense, approximately $4.1 million in cloud computing expense, approximately $3.4 million related to office rent, approximately $0.6 million in travel and entertainment expenses, approximately $0.3 million related to professional services, and approximately $0.1 million in other expenses.
Sales and Marketing Expense
| Year Ended December 31, | Change | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | $ | % | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | $ | 37,226 | $ | 30,642 | $ | 6,584 | 21% |
The increase in sales and marketing expense during the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2022 was attributable to increases of approximately $4.6 million in personnel-related expense, approximately $0.9 million related to office rent, approximately $0.7 million in travel and entertainment expenses, and approximately $0.4 million in cloud computing expense.
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General and Administrative Expense
| Year Ended December 31, | Change | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | $ | % | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||
| General and administrative | $ | 99,148 | $ | 90,825 | $ | 8,323 | 9% |
The increase in general and administrative expense during the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2022 was attributable to increases of approximately $8.5 million of personnel-related expense, approximately $2.2 million in royalties related to cash distributions we received from Nimbus, approximately $0.8 million in cloud computing expense, approximately $0.8 million related to office rent, approximately $0.5 million in travel and entertainment expense, and approximately $0.5 million in amortization related to the acceleration of customer relationship intangible assets, offset by decreases of approximately $2.4 million related to professional services, approximately $1.1 million related to a one-time non-recurring state and local tax item, and approximately $1.5 million in other expenses.
Gain on Equity Investments
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | Change | ||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||
| Gain on equity investments | $ | 147,213 | $ | 11,825 | $ | 135,388 |
The gain on equity investments during the year ended December 31, 2023 was due to the realized gain on our equity investment in Nimbus following the closing of Takeda's acquisition of Nimbus Lakshmi, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nimbus, and its tyrosine kinase 2 inhibitor, NDI-034858. The gain on equity investments during the year ended December 31, 2022 was due to cash received from a third party, who previously acquired a collaborator in which we held an equity stake, in exchange for the termination of our rights to receive potential earnouts under the acquisition agreement.
Change in Fair Value
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | Change | ||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||
| Change in fair value | $ | 53,461 | $ | (18,084) | $ | 71,545 |
The change in fair value during the year ended December 31, 2023 was due to an unrealized gain on our investment in Structure of $49.8 million, an unrealized gain on our investment in Nimbus of $1.9 million, and an unrealized gain on our investment in Morphic of $1.8 million. The change in fair value during the year ended December 31, 2022 was primarily due to an unrealized loss on our investment in Morphic.
Other Income
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | Change | ||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||
| Other income | $ | 19,693 | $ | 3,950 | $ | 15,743 |
The increase in other income during the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2022 was primarily attributable to an increase in interest rates on our investment portfolio.
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Income Tax Expense
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | Change | ||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||
| Income tax expense | $ | 2,199 | $ | 63 | $ | 2,136 |
Income tax expense for the year ended December 31, 2023 represents our federal and certain state income tax obligations and taxes in foreign jurisdictions for which we conduct business. Income tax expense for the year ended December 31, 2022 represents our income tax obligations in certain states and taxes in foreign jurisdictions in which we conduct business. As of December 31, 2023, we have a full valuation allowance on our U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets.
At December 31, 2023, we had federal and state net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $179.1 million and $98.6 million, respectively. The state net operating loss carryforwards will expire between 2025 and 2042, if not utilized. The federal net operating loss carryforwards are limited to 80% of taxable income generated in a given year and carry forward indefinitely. At December 31, 2023, we had federal and state research and development tax credit carryforwards of approximately $23.3 million and $1.6 million, respectively. These carryforwards will expire between 2024 and 2043, if not utilized.
As required by ASC Topic 740, Income Taxes, our management has evaluated the positive and negative evidence bearing upon the realizability of our deferred tax assets, which are composed principally of net operating loss carryforwards and research and development credit carryforwards. Management has determined that it is more likely than not that we will not realize the benefits of our federal and state deferred tax assets and, as a result, a valuation allowance of $136.0 million and $138.0 million has been established at December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The change in the valuation allowance for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 was $1.9 million and $42.7 million, respectively. We recorded income tax expense of $2.2 million and $0.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
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Quarterly Results of Operations
The following tables summarize our selected unaudited quarterly results of operations data for each of the eight quarters in the period ended December 31, 2023. The information for each of these quarters has been prepared on the same basis as our audited annual consolidated financial statements and reflect, in the opinion of management, all adjustments of a normal, recurring nature that are necessary for the fair statement of the results of operations for these periods. This data should be read in conjunction with our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report. Historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full fiscal year or any other period.
| Three Months Ended | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services | $ | 68,655 | $ | 28,904 | $ | 29,352 | $ | 32,213 | $ | 47,819 | $ | 24,667 | $ | 30,011 | $ | 33,081 | ||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | 5,471 | 13,665 | 5,837 | 32,569 | 9,024 | 12,313 | 8,458 | 15,582 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total revenues | 74,126 | 42,569 | 35,189 | 64,782 | 56,843 | 36,980 | 38,469 | 48,663 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services(1) | 8,670 | 7,034 | 6,695 | 7,115 | 8,098 | 6,866 | 7,101 | 7,511 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery(1) | 7,906 | 11,896 | 14,684 | 11,974 | 10,041 | 12,913 | 14,234 | 13,169 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total cost of revenues | 16,576 | 18,930 | 21,379 | 19,089 | 18,139 | 19,779 | 21,335 | 20,680 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gross profit | 57,550 | 23,639 | 13,810 | 45,693 | 38,704 | 17,201 | 17,134 | 27,983 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating expenses: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Research and development(1) | 51,487 | 46,833 | 42,705 | 40,741 | 34,542 | 32,885 | 31,123 | 27,822 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing(1) | 9,950 | 9,109 | 9,022 | 9,145 | 9,382 | 7,161 | 7,428 | 6,671 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative(1) | 25,734 | 23,890 | 23,216 | 26,308 | 23,318 | 23,318 | 22,056 | 22,133 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total operating expenses | 87,171 | 79,832 | 74,943 | 76,194 | 67,242 | 63,364 | 60,607 | 56,626 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loss from operations | (29,621) | (56,193) | (61,133) | (30,501) | (28,538) | (46,163) | (43,473) | (28,643) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other (expense) income: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Loss) gain on equity investments | (109) | — | — | 147,322 | — | (3) | 11,828 | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Change in fair value | (8,408) | (14,522) | 40,654 | 35,737 | (1,493) | 5,273 | (15,700) | (6,164) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other income (expense) | 6,626 | 5,804 | 4,326 | 2,937 | 2,687 | 1,231 | (296) | 328 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total other (expense) income | (1,891) | (8,718) | 44,980 | 185,996 | 1,194 | 6,501 | (4,168) | (5,836) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Loss) income before income taxes | (31,512) | (64,911) | (16,153) | 155,495 | (27,344) | (39,662) | (47,641) | (34,479) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Income tax (benefit) expense | (842) | (2,887) | (20,431) | 26,359 | (136) | 194 | 33 | (28) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net (loss) income | (30,670) | (62,024) | 4,278 | 129,136 | (27,208) | (39,856) | (47,674) | (34,451) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net (loss) income attributable to noncontrolling interest | — | — | — | — | (1) | (3) | 12 | (11) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net (loss) income attributable to Schrödinger stockholders | $ | (30,670) | $ | (62,024) | $ | 4,278 | $ | 129,136 | $ | (27,207) | $ | (39,853) | $ | (47,686) | $ | (34,440) |
(1)Includes stock-based compensation as indicated in the table located further below.
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Revenues:
| Three Months Ended | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| On-premise software | $ | 53,947 | $ | 13,806 | $ | 16,814 | $ | 19,944 | $ | 33,627 | $ | 12,579 | $ | 16,595 | $ | 21,686 | ||||||||||||||
| Hosted software | 6,016 | 5,463 | 4,451 | 4,451 | 4,125 | 3,914 | 3,596 | 3,255 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software maintenance | 5,687 | 5,752 | 5,877 | 5,750 | 5,255 | 5,063 | 4,952 | 4,726 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Professional services | 3,005 | 2,083 | 2,210 | 2,068 | 4,812 | 3,111 | 3,868 | 3,414 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenue from contracts with customers | 68,655 | 27,104 | 29,352 | 32,213 | 47,819 | 24,667 | 29,011 | 33,081 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software contribution | — | 1,800 | — | — | — | — | 1,000 | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total software products and services revenue | 68,655 | 28,904 | 29,352 | 32,213 | 47,819 | 24,667 | 30,011 | 33,081 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery services | 4,955 | 12,730 | 5,232 | 31,803 | 8,450 | 11,717 | 8,019 | 15,241 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery contribution | 516 | 935 | 605 | 766 | 574 | 596 | 439 | 341 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total drug discovery revenue | 5,471 | 13,665 | 5,837 | 32,569 | 9,024 | 12,313 | 8,458 | 15,582 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total revenues | $ | 74,126 | $ | 42,569 | $ | 35,189 | $ | 64,782 | $ | 56,843 | $ | 36,980 | $ | 38,469 | $ | 48,663 |
Deferred Revenue:
| As of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deferred revenue | $ | 65,274 | $ | 55,415 | $ | 62,294 | $ | 71,926 | $ | 83,529 | $ | 65,897 | $ | 67,545 | $ | 78,353 |
Gross Margin:
| Three Months Ended | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | ||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | ||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services gross margin | 87 | % | 76 | % | 77 | % | 78 | % | 83 | % | 72 | % | 76 | % | 77 | % |
Stock-Based Compensation:
| Three Months Ended | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services | $ | 671 | $ | 654 | $ | 625 | $ | 600 | $ | 580 | $ | 596 | $ | 584 | $ | 485 | ||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | $ | 585 | $ | 580 | $ | 765 | $ | 699 | $ | 626 | $ | 764 | $ | 944 | $ | 803 | ||||||||||||||
| Research and development | $ | 4,070 | $ | 4,101 | $ | 3,807 | $ | 3,514 | $ | 3,231 | $ | 3,026 | $ | 2,977 | $ | 2,582 | ||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | $ | 935 | $ | 914 | $ | 941 | $ | 851 | $ | 867 | $ | 728 | $ | 699 | $ | 524 | ||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | $ | 6,272 | $ | 6,405 | $ | 5,635 | $ | 5,217 | $ | 4,902 | $ | 4,750 | $ | 5,223 | $ | 4,740 | ||||||||||||||
| Total stock-based compensation expense | $ | 12,533 | $ | 12,654 | $ | 11,773 | $ | 10,881 | $ | 10,206 | $ | 9,864 | $ | 10,427 | $ | 9,134 |
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Depreciation and Amortization:
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services | $ | 124 | $ | 109 | $ | 101 | $ | 112 | $ | 113 | $ | 106 | $ | 118 | $ | 99 | ||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | $ | 83 | $ | 110 | $ | 130 | $ | 116 | $ | 97 | $ | 117 | $ | 127 | $ | 112 | ||||||||||||||
| Research and development | $ | 710 | $ | 591 | $ | 525 | $ | 518 | $ | 425 | $ | 384 | $ | 351 | $ | 308 | ||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | $ | 151 | $ | 172 | $ | 141 | $ | 140 | $ | 114 | $ | 101 | $ | 118 | $ | 79 | ||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | $ | 286 | $ | 291 | $ | 268 | $ | 874 | $ | 393 | $ | 399 | $ | 412 | $ | 371 | ||||||||||||||
| Total depreciation and amortization expense | $ | 1,354 | $ | 1,273 | $ | 1,165 | $ | 1,760 | $ | 1,142 | $ | 1,107 | $ | 1,126 | $ | 969 |
Quarterly Revenue Trends
On-premise software revenue is subject to seasonality that generally favors the first and fourth quarter of each year, primarily due to the timing of customer renewals for on-premise software arrangements, for which revenue is recognized at a single point in time. Hosted software revenue grew more steadily over the periods presented, as existing customers and new customers increased their spend on hosted solutions, for which revenue is recognized ratably over the term of the contract. As a result, a portion of the software products and services revenue we reported in each period was attributable to sales we made in prior periods. Software maintenance revenue is related to on-premise software sales and also is recognized ratably over the term of the underlying agreement. Therefore, increases or decreases in customer sales, customer expansion, or renewals in a period may not be immediately reflected in revenue for the period. Our professional services arrangements are typically project-based and, therefore, fluctuated based on individual customer needs and ongoing project support. Drug discovery revenue fluctuated from period to period based on the achievement of specific collaboration milestones, as well as advancements of collaborative services.
Milestone payments typically increase in magnitude as a program advances.
Quarterly Deferred Revenue Trends
Deferred revenue consists of the unearned portion of customer billings, which is recognized as revenue in accordance with our revenue recognition policy, as well as the unearned portion of unbilled collaboration milestones that are deemed probable in advance of actual achievement. Deferred revenue balances have fluctuated based on the measurement of progress toward completion for service projects, the timing of sales, shifts in product mix, and fluctuations to the number and size of milestones that were deemed probable in advance of actual achievement.
Quarterly Gross Margin Trends
Our software products and services gross margin experienced fluctuations over the periods presented due to increased headcount and the product mix for software and services, as the cost of royalties due on sales of our hosted software is recognized upfront, while the associated revenue is recognized over the term of the related agreement. Currently, gross margin is less meaningful for measuring the operating results of our drug discovery business.
Quarterly Operating Expense Trends
Operating expenses generally increased during the periods presented due to increased headcount and personnel-related expenses involved in research and development, sales and marketing, general and administrative activities, and CRO costs related to our proprietary drug discovery programs. These increases in headcount across our operations have supported the overall growth and management of our business. CRO cost increases were driven by the expansion and progression of our proprietary drug discovery programs.
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Quarterly Other (Expense) Income Trends
Other (expense) income during the periods presented consisted primarily of fair value gains and losses related to our equity investments in Morphic and Structure Therapeutics, and, to a lesser degree, interest income.
Segment Information
The following tables summarize segment information for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022. See Note 16 – Segment Reporting in our audited consolidated financial statements for additional information regarding our segments.
Segment gross profit is derived by deducting operational expenditures, with the exception of research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administrative activities, from U.S. GAAP revenue. Operational expenditures are expenditures made that are directly attributable to the reportable segment. In many cases, these expenditures are allocated to the segments based on headcount. The reportable segment expenditures include compensation, supplies, and services from contract research organizations.
Certain cost items are not allocated to our reportable segments. These cost items primarily consist of non-drug discovery program related compensation and general operational expenses associated with our research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administrative activities. These costs are incurred by both segments and, due to the integrated nature of our software and drug discovery segments, any allocation methodology would be arbitrary and provide no meaningful analysis. Additionally, we report assets on a consolidated basis and do not allocate assets to our reportable segments for purposes of assessing segment performance or allocating resources.
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | |||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||
| Segment revenues: | ||||||
| Software | $ | 159,124 | $ | 135,578 | ||
| Drug discovery | 57,542 | 45,377 | ||||
| Total segment revenues | $ | 216,666 | $ | 180,955 | ||
| Segment gross profit: | ||||||
| Software | $ | 129,610 | $ | 106,002 | ||
| Drug discovery | 11,082 | (4,980) | ||||
| Total segment gross profit | $ | 140,692 | $ | 101,022 | ||
| Unallocated (expense) income: | ||||||
| Research and development | (181,766) | (126,372) | ||||
| Sales and marketing | (37,226) | (30,642) | ||||
| General and administrative | (99,148) | (90,825) | ||||
| Gain on equity investment | 147,213 | 11,825 | ||||
| Change in fair value | 53,461 | (18,084) | ||||
| Other income | 19,693 | 3,950 | ||||
| Income taxes | (2,199) | (63) | ||||
| Consolidated net income (loss) | $ | 40,720 | $ | (149,189) |
Liquidity, Capital Resources and Funding Requirements
We have a history of significant operating losses and have incurred negative cash flows from operations from inception through the year ended December 31, 2023. As of December 31, 2023, we had an accumulated deficit of $338.4 million.
We have funded our operations to date principally from the sale of our equity securities, including our initial public offering and our follow-on public offering, and to a lesser extent, from sales of our software solutions and from upfront payments, research funding and milestone payments from our drug discovery collaborations, and from distributions
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on account of, or proceeds from the sale of, our equity stakes in our collaborators. Our operating cash flows are impacted by the magnitude and timing of our software sales and by the magnitude and timing of our drug discovery milestone achievements and research funding fees.
On March 4, 2021, we filed a universal shelf registration statement on Form S-3 which allows us to offer and sell an indeterminate number of shares of common stock, preferred stock, depositary shares or warrants, or an indeterminate principal amount of debt securities, from time to time pursuant to one or more offerings at prices and terms to be determined at the time of the sale. As of December 31, 2023, no securities had been sold under the Form S-3.
In May 2023, we entered into a sales agreement with Leerink Partners LLC (formerly SVB Securities LLC), or Leerink Partners, as sales agent, with respect to an at-the-market offering program, or the ATM, under which we could offer and sell, from time to time pursuant to our Form S-3, shares of common stock, having an aggregate offering price of up to $250.0 million, through Leerink Partners. During the three months ended December 31, 2023, no shares of common stock were sold under the ATM and as of December 31, 2023, we had $250.0 million of common stock remaining available for sale under the ATM.
As of December 31, 2023, we had cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash, and marketable securities of $468.8 million.
We believe our existing cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities as of December 31, 2023 will be sufficient to fund our operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements through at least the next 24 months. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including the growth of our software revenue, the timing and extent of spending to support research and development efforts, the continued expansion of software sales and marketing activities, the timing and receipt of milestone payments from our collaborations, as well as spending to support, advance, and broaden our proprietary drug discovery programs. Furthermore, our capital requirements will also change depending on the timing and receipt of any distributions we may receive from our equity stakes in our drug discovery collaborators. The potential for these distributions, and the amounts which we may be entitled to receive, are difficult to predict due to the inherent uncertainty of the events which may trigger such distributions.
We plan to utilize the existing cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities on hand primarily to fund our software and drug discovery activities. With respect to our proprietary drug discovery programs, as part of our strategy we may choose to advance them into preclinical and clinical development ourselves, enter into collaborations to co-develop them with leading industry partners, or out-license them to maximize their clinical and commercial opportunities.
We may be required to seek additional equity or debt financing. In the event that we require additional financing, we may not be able to raise such financing on terms acceptable to us or at all. If we are unable to raise additional capital or generate cash flows necessary to maintain or expand our operations and invest in our platform, we may not be able to compete successfully, which would harm our business, operations and financial condition. In addition, we may seek additional capital due to favorable market conditions or strategic considerations, even if we believe we have sufficient funds for our current or future operating plans.
Our contractual obligations as of December 31, 2023 include lease obligations of $195.5 million, consisting of our continuing rent obligations through December 2037, primarily for our offices located in New York, New York for $145.4 million, Cambridge, Massachusetts for $16.4 million and Framingham, Massachusetts for $11.3 million, which expire in December 2037, June 2032 and March 2033, respectively. In December 2022, we entered into an agreement with a third-party to establish an exclusive integrated drug discovery dedicated facility in Hyderabad, India. The agreement contains a minimum payment obligation, which totals $21.8 million over five years after the date of first occupancy. In addition, see Note 7 – Commitments and Contingencies to our consolidated financial statements appearing in Item 8 of this Annual Report for more information relating to our operating lease obligations.
In December 2020, we entered into a five-year agreement with a third-party cloud provider for compute power. The agreement contains a minimum payment obligation, which totals $60 million over the five years after the date we entered into the agreement. There is no annual commitment.
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We also enter into agreements in the normal course of business with CRO vendors for research, preclinical studies, and clinical trials, professional consultants for expert advice, and other vendors for various products and services. These contracts do not contain any minimum purchase commitments and are cancellable at any time by us, generally upon 30 days prior written notice, and therefore we believe that our non-cancelable obligations under these agreements are not material. We have also agreed to pay volume-based royalties to third-parties for use of software functionality under various licensing and related agreements. See Note 2 - Significant Accounting Policies to our audited consolidated financial statements appearing in Item 8 of this Annual Report for more information relating to our royalty obligations.
Cash Flows
The following table presents a summary of our cash flows for the periods shown:
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| Net cash used in operating activities | $ | (136,733) | $ | (119,683) | ||
| Net cash provided by investing activities | 193,034 | 90,023 | ||||
| Net cash provided by financing activities | 9,048 | 2,110 | ||||
| Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash | $ | 65,349 | $ | (27,550) |
Operating activities
During the year ended December 31, 2023, operating activities used approximately $136.7 million in cash, due to a $147.2 million gain from equity investments, of which the cash received is included in investing activities, $53.5 million of non-cash gain on changes in fair value, $22.4 million in changes in our operating assets and liabilities, and $2.1 million of non-cash operating expenses. These items are offset by a net income of $40.7 million, including depreciation and investment accretion costs and $47.8 million in stock-based compensation.
During the year ended December 31, 2022, operating activities used approximately $119.7 million in cash primarily resulting from net loss of $149.2 million, which included an $11.8 million gain from equity investments, partially offset by $5.0 million of non-cash operating expenses included in net loss, including depreciation and investment accretion costs, $39.6 million in stock-based compensation, and $18.1 million of non-cash loss on changes in fair value. Changes in our operating assets and liabilities used cash of approximately $21.4 million.
Investing activities
During the year ended December 31, 2023, investing activities provided approximately $193.0 million of cash, consisting of $147.2 million cash distributions received, on account of our equity investment in Nimbus, from Nimbus in connection with Takeda’s acquisition of Nimbus Lakshmi, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nimbus, and its TYK2 inhibitor NDI-034858 and $63.3 million provided by marketable securities, net of purchases. These items are partially offset by $13.4 million in cash used for purchases of property and equipment, $4.1 million used for purchases of equity investments in Structure Therapeutics.
During the year ended December 31, 2022, investing activities provided approximately $90.0 million of cash, consisting of $93.2 million provided by marketable securities, net of purchases and $11.8 million in cash from a third party, who previously acquired a collaborator in which we held an equity stake, in exchange for the termination of our rights to receive potential earnouts under the acquisition agreement. These items are partially offset by $8.0 million in cash used for purchases of property and equipment, $0.6 million used to make equity investments in Structure Therapeutics, and $6.4 million used to acquire XTAL, net of cash acquired.
Financing activities
During the year ended December 31, 2023, financing activities provided approximately $9.0 million of cash, primarily attributable to proceeds from stock option exercises.
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During the year ended December 31, 2022, financing activities provided approximately $2.1 million of cash, primarily attributable to proceeds from stock option exercises.
Seasonality
Generally, the first and fourth quarter of each year have typically been our largest quarters for software products and services revenue, primarily due to the timing of customer renewals of on-premise software arrangements, for which revenue is recognized at a single point in time. Seasonality has been a less significant factor for our hosted software arrangements, for which revenue is recognized ratably over time. Seasonality has not been a factor for our drug discovery revenues. Historical seasonality may not be indicative of future periods.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Critical accounting policies are those that are both most important to the portrayal of a company's financial condition and results, and that require management's most difficult, subjective, and complex judgments, often as a result of the need to make estimates about the effect of matters that are inherently uncertain. Our management’s discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations is based on our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of these consolidated financial statements requires us to make judgments and estimates that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities in our consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes. We base our estimates on historical experience, known trends and events, and our beliefs of what could occur in the future considering available information. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our judgments and estimates in light of changes in circumstances, facts, and experience. The effects of material revisions in estimates, if any, are reflected in the consolidated financial statements prospectively from the date of change in estimates.
While our significant accounting policies are described in more detail in Note 2 – Significant Accounting Policies to our consolidated financial statements appearing in Item 8 of this Annual Report, we believe the following critical accounting estimates used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements require the most difficult, subjective and complex judgments and estimates and have had, or are reasonably likely to have a material impact on our financial condition or results of operations.
Revenue
We recognize revenue in accordance with ASC Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, or Topic 606, except for contracts that are within the scope of other standards, such as contribution grants and certain collaboration arrangements. In accordance with Topic 606, we recognize revenue when our customer obtains control of promised goods or services, in an amount that reflects the consideration which we expect to receive in exchange for those goods or services. To determine revenue recognition for arrangements that we determine are within the scope of Topic 606, we perform the following five steps: (i) identify the contract(s) with a customer; (ii) identify the performance obligations in the contract; (iii) determine the transaction price; (iv) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; and (v) recognize revenue when or as we satisfy a performance obligation.
Significant management judgment is applied to determine the allocation of the transaction price and measurement of progress, including (1) the constraint on variable consideration, (2) the allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations using their standalone selling price, or SSP, and (3) the appropriate input or output based method to recognize collaboration revenue and the extent of progress to date.
Variable consideration: Our revenue may include upfront payments for the performance of services in the future, which have both fixed and variable consideration. We include the unconstrained amount of estimated variable consideration in the transaction price. The amount included in the transaction price is constrained to the amount for which it is probable that a significant reversal of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur. At the end of each subsequent reporting period, we re-evaluate the estimated variable consideration included in the transaction price and any related constraint and, if necessary, adjust our estimate of the overall transaction price.
Research and development, regulatory or commercial milestones in our collaboration agreements may include some, but not necessarily all, of the following types of events:
•completion of preclinical research and development work leading to selection of product candidates;
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•initiation of Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 clinical trials;
•filing of regulatory applications for marketing approval in the United States, Europe or Japan;
•marketing approval in major markets, such as the United States, Europe, or Japan;
•commercial milestones and/or commercial royalties; and
•achievement of certain other technical, scientific, or development criteria.
At the inception of each arrangement that includes research, development, or regulatory milestone payments, we evaluate whether the milestones are considered probable of being reached and estimate the amount to be included in the transaction price using the most likely amount method. If it is probable that a significant revenue reversal would not occur, the associated milestone value is included in the transaction price. Milestone payments that are not within our control or that of the licensee, such as regulatory approvals, are not considered probable of being achieved until those approvals are received. The transaction price is then allocated to each performance obligation on an SSP basis, for which we recognize revenue as or when the performance obligations under the contract are satisfied. At the end of each subsequent reporting period, we re-evaluate the probability of achievement of such development milestones and any related constraint, and if necessary, adjust our estimate of the overall transaction price. Any such adjustments are recorded on a cumulative catch-up basis, which may affect license, collaboration, and other revenues and earnings in the period of adjustment. The process of successfully achieving the criteria for the milestone payments is highly uncertain. Consequently, there is a risk that we may not earn all of the milestone payments from each of our collaborators. We recognized $27.7 million and $14.7 million from drug discovery milestones for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
Software performance obligations and transaction price allocation: At contract inception, we assess the goods or services promised within each contract that falls under the scope of Topic 606 to identify distinct performance obligations, which requires significant judgment based on the nature of each transaction. We allocate the transaction price to each distinct performance obligation on an SSP basis. We determine the SSP using information that includes historical discounting practices, market conditions, cost-plus analysis, and other observable inputs. We typically have more than one SSP for individual performance obligations due to the stratification of those items by classes of customers and circumstances. In these instances, we may use information such as the size and geographic region of the customer in determining the SSP. We may also estimate SSP based on management judgment by considering available data such as internal cost and margin objectives, pricing strategies, market/competitive conditions, historical profitability data, as well as other observable inputs. We establish SSP ranges for our products and services and reassesses them periodically. The determination of SSP required significant management judgment.
Collaboration agreement transaction price allocation and measurement of progress: At the inception of each arrangement, we utilize judgment to assess the nature of the performance obligations to determine whether they are distinct or a single combined performance obligation. We allocate the transaction price to each performance obligation based on the relative SSP of each performance obligation at inception, which will be determined based on each performance obligation’s estimated SSP. We determine the SSP at contract inception of the research activities based on internal estimates of the costs to perform the services, inclusive of a reasonable profit margin. Significant judgment is used to determine the inputs for total costs to perform the research activities, which may include the length of time required, the internal hours expected to be incurred on the services and the number and costs of various studies that will be performed by third-parties to complete the research plan. Revenue is recognized on a proportional performance basis over the period of service, using input-based measurements to estimate the performance. Changes to these assumptions may have a material effect on the amount and timing of revenue recognized. We recognized revenue of $52.2 million and $24.3 million related to collaboration agreements with proportional performance measurement for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
See Note 2 – Significant Accounting Policies to our consolidated financial statements appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report for a discussion of recently issued accounting pronouncements.
FY 2022 10-K MD&A
SEC filing source: 0001490978-23-000024.
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations together with our consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report. Some of the information contained in this discussion and analysis or set forth elsewhere in this Annual Report, including information with respect to our plans and strategy for our business and related financing, includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations covers fiscal 2022 and fiscal 2021 items and year-over-year comparisons between fiscal 2022 and fiscal 2021. Discussions of fiscal 2020 items and year-over-year comparisons between fiscal 2021 and 2020 that are not included in this Form 10-K can be found in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Part II, Item 7 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, that was filed with the SEC on February 24, 2022.
As a result of many factors, including those factors set forth in “Risk Factors” of this Annual Report, our actual results could differ materially from the results described in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in the following discussion and analysis. For further information regarding our forward-looking statements, see “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Industry Data” in this Annual Report.
Overview
We are transforming the way therapeutics and materials are discovered. Our differentiated, physics-based computational platform enables discovery of high-quality, novel molecules for drug development and materials applications more rapidly and at a lower cost, compared to traditional methods. Our software platform is licensed by biopharmaceutical and industrial companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories around the world. We are applying our computational platform to discover and advance a broad pipeline of development programs in collaboration with leading biopharmaceutical companies. In addition, we use our platform to advance a pipeline of partnered and wholly-owned drug discovery programs, which we refer to collectively as our proprietary drug discovery programs.
Since our founding, we have been primarily focused on developing our computational platform, which is capable of predicting critical properties of molecules with a high degree of accuracy, as well as advancing drug discovery programs both with our collaborators and on our own. We have devoted substantially all of our resources to introducing new capabilities and refining our software, conducting research and development activities, recruiting skilled personnel, and providing general and administrative support for these operations.
Over the last decade, we have entered into a number of collaborations with biopharmaceutical companies that have provided us with significant income and have the potential to produce additional milestone payments, option fees, and future royalties. In 2018, we began to develop a pipeline of wholly-owned drug discovery programs with the goal of using our platform to produce a portfolio of novel, high value therapeutics. We submitted an investigational new drug
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application, or IND, for our MALT1 inhibitor, which we refer to as SGR-1505, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, cleared the IND in June 2022. We recently initiated a Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-1505 in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell lymphomas and currently have clinical trial sites open for screening and enrollment, but we have not yet dosed any patients with SGR-1505. In addition, we continue to advance other wholly-owned programs through IND-enabling studies. We expect to submit an IND application to the FDA for our CDC7 inhibitor, which we refer to as SGR-2921, in the first half of 2023 and an IND application to the FDA for our WEE1 inhibitor, which we refer to as SGR-3515, in 2024, subject to favorable data from IND-enabling studies. In addition, we plan to initiate a Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-2921 in the second half of 2023, subject to receipt of regulatory clearance.
We have funded our operations to date principally from the sale of our equity securities, including our initial public offering and our follow-on public offering, and to a lesser extent, from sales of our software solutions and from upfront payments, research funding and milestone payments from our drug discovery collaborations, and from distributions on account of, or proceeds from the sale of, our equity stakes in our collaborators.
We currently conduct our operations through two reportable segments: software and drug discovery. The software segment is focused on selling our software to transform drug discovery across the life sciences industry, as well as to customers in materials science industries. The drug discovery segment is focused on generating revenue from a diverse portfolio of preclinical and clinical programs, internally and through collaborations, that have advanced to various stages of discovery and development.
Our software segment generates revenue from software product licenses, hosted software subscriptions, software maintenance, professional services, and contributions. The revenue we generate through our software solutions from each of our customers varies largely depending on the number of software licenses our customers purchase from us. The licenses that our customers purchase from us provide them the ability to perform a certain number of calculations used in the design of molecules for drug discovery or materials science. We deliver our software through either (i) a product license that permits our customers to install the software solution directly on their own in-house hardware and use it for a specified term, or (ii) a subscription that allows our customers to access our cloud-based software solution on their own hardware without taking control of licenses.
We currently generate drug discovery revenue from our collaborations, including upfront payments, research funding payments and discovery and development milestones. In the future, we may also derive drug discovery revenue from our collaborations from option fees, the achievement of commercial milestones, and royalties on commercial drug sales. In addition to revenue from our collaborations, we may also derive drug discovery revenue from collaborating on or out-licensing our wholly-owned drug discovery programs when we believe it will help maximize clinical and commercial opportunity for the program.
In November 2020, we entered into an exclusive, worldwide collaboration and license agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, or BMS, pursuant to which we and BMS agreed to collaborate in the discovery, research and development of small molecule compounds for biological targets in the oncology, neurology and immunology therapeutic areas. The initial collaboration targets included HIF-2 alpha and SOS1/KRAS, which were two of our wholly-owned pipeline programs. In November 2021, we and BMS mutually agreed to replace the HIF-2 alpha target with another precision oncology target. Following the replacement election, all rights to the HIF-2 alpha target program reverted to us. In September 2022, BMS elected not to proceed with further development of another target and all rights to this program reverted to us. In December 2022, we and BMS entered into an amendment to the agreement to include an additional target in neurology on terms similar to the original agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, as amended, we received an upfront payment of $55.0 million from BMS in November 2020 and an additional upfront payment in December 2022, and we are eligible to receive up to $2.7 billion in total milestone payments across all potential targets, as well as a tiered percentage royalty on net sales of each product commercialized by BMS ranging from mid-single digits to low-double digits, subject to certain specified reductions. See “Collaboration and License Agreement” in Note 3 to our consolidated financial statements for additional information relating to this agreement.
In August 2021, we entered into a global discovery, development and commercialization collaboration with Zai Lab Limited focused on a novel program in oncology targeting DNA damage response. Under the terms of the agreement, we received an upfront payment to help fund our share of research costs, and if we elect to co-fund clinical development of a product candidate under the collaboration, we will be entitled to receive 50% of any profits from the commercialization of an approved therapeutic in the United States. We are also eligible to receive up to approximately $338.0 million in preclinical, clinical, regulatory and sales-based milestone payments from Zai Lab Limited for any product candidate developed under the collaboration, and we are entitled to receive tiered royalties on net sales outside the United States.
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In January 2022, we acquired XTAL BioStructures, Inc., or XTAL, a company that provides structural biology services, including biophysical methods, protein production and purification, and X-ray crystallography, which we believe will augment our ability to produce high quality target structures for our drug discovery programs. See “Business Acquisition” in Note 5 to our consolidated financial statements for additional information relating to this acquisition.
In September 2022, we entered into a collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company, or Lilly, under which we are responsible for the discovery and optimization of small molecule compounds addressing a specific target. Lilly will be responsible for the completion of preclinical development, clinical development and commercialization. Under the terms of the agreement we received an upfront payment and we are eligible to receive up to $425 million in discovery, development and commercial milestone payments. We are also eligible to receive low single- to low double-digit royalties on net sales of any products emerging from the collaboration in all markets.
We generated revenue of $181.0 million and $137.9 million in 2022 and 2021, respectively, representing year-over-year growth of 31%. Our net losses were $149.2 million and $101.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Business Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic
In order to safeguard the health of our employees in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, in early March 2020 we implemented a company-wide work-from-home policy. Beginning in June 2020, we began limited re-openings of certain of our offices in the United States and abroad. All of our offices are currently open, though we may take future actions that alter our operations as may be required by federal, state, or local authorities, or which we determine are in our best interests.
We did not see material impacts to our business from the COVID-19 pandemic during 2022. While we do not expect the COVID-19 pandemic to have future material impacts on our business, the full extent of the future impact will depend on many factors outside of our control, including, without limitation, the extent, trajectory and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, the development, availability and distribution of effective treatments and vaccines, the imposition of protective public safety measures, the emergence of new strains and variants of COVID-19 and the effectiveness of vaccines against such strains and variants, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy. For instance, with respect to our software business, some of our customers may experience increasing budgetary pressures as a result of downturns or uncertainty in their respective businesses, which may cause them to delay or reduce purchases. Relative to our and our collaborators’ drug discovery programs, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in, and may in the future result in, disruptions in current and future IND-enabling studies and clinical trials, manufacturing disruptions, trial site disruptions and impact the ability to obtain necessary institutional review board, institutional biosafety committee, or other necessary site approvals. These disruptions have caused, and may in the future cause, delays in certain of our and our collaborators’ drug discovery programs. For example, our contract manufacturing organizations, or CMOs, and our contract research organizations, or CROs, have experienced reductions in the capacity to undertake research-scale production and delays in executing some preclinical studies, including our IND-enabling studies for SGR-2921. We expect to submit the IND application to the FDA for SGR-2921 in the first half of 2023 and to initiate a Phase 1 clinical trial in the second half of 2023, subject to regulatory clearance. In addition, the recent resurgence of COVID-19 in certain cities in China, and related subsequent lockdowns, have also reduced the capacity of a number of CROs that we work with in those affected areas. We, together with our CMOs and CROs, are closely monitoring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on these operations, and we are actively working to add supplemental or substitute capacity to minimize the impact of these reduced operations. Furthermore, if our collaborators experience similar delays with their drug discovery and development programs, that could cause additional delays in our achievement of milestones and related revenue. While there remains uncertainty about the extent of the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, we do not envision a long-term impact from the COVID-19 pandemic on our ability to execute on our strategy.
Management is actively monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic and its possible effects on our financial condition, liquidity, operations, customers, contractors, and workforce. For additional information on risks posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, please see “Risk Factors – Risks Related to Our Operations – A widespread outbreak of an illness or other health issue, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, could negatively affect various aspects of our business and make it more difficult to meet our obligations to our customers, and could result in reduced demand from our customers as well as delays in our drug discovery and development programs,” included elsewhere in this Annual Report.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have joined a multi-company philanthropic effort to discover and develop novel small-molecule antiviral therapeutics to address COVID-19. The intent of the alliance, which to date also includes Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Novartis AG, Alphabet, Inc., Gilead Sciences, Inc., and WuXi
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AppTec, Inc., is to make any discoveries from this alliance available to the public. There is no expectation that this effort will generate revenue for any of the companies involved in the alliance, including us.
Key Factors Affecting Our Performance
Ability to drive additional revenue from our software solutions from existing customers
Our large existing base of customers represents a significant opportunity for us to expand our revenue through increased utilization of our software. The revenue that we generate through our software solutions from each of our customers varies depending on the number of licenses for each software solution that each customer purchases from us. Accordingly, we work with our customers to improve their experience and increase the utility of our platform in order to expand the scale at which they deploy our platform in their business. Biopharmaceutical companies are increasingly adopting our software at a larger scale, and we anticipate that this scaling-up will drive future revenue growth. Our ability to expand within our customer base is demonstrated by the increasing number of our customers with an annual contract value, or ACV, of over $100,000. We had 227 and 190 of these customers for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. This subset of customers represented approximately 82% and 80% of our total ACV for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. In addition, we had 18 and 15 customers with an ACV of over $1.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. We also had four customers with an ACV in excess of $5.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, compared to two such customers for the year ended December 31, 2021.
With respect to contracts that have a duration of one year or less, or contracts of more than one year in duration that are billed annually, we define ACV as the contract value billed during the applicable period. For contracts with a duration of more than one year that are billed upfront, ACV in each period represents the total billed contract value divided by the term. ACV should be viewed independently of revenue and does not represent revenue calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, or U.S. GAAP, on an annualized basis, as it is an operating metric that can be impacted by contract execution start and end dates and renewal rates. ACV is not intended to be a replacement for, or forecast of, revenue. Our ACV was $140.6 million and $112.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Another important driver of our ability to expand our customer relationships is the retention of our customers with an ACV over $100,000. For the year ended December 31, 2022, our year-over-year customer retention rate for such customers was 96% and was 96% or higher for each of the previous nine fiscal years. We calculate year-over-year customer retention for our customers with an ACV over $100,000 by starting with the number of such customers we had in the previous fiscal year. We then calculate how many of these customers were active customers in the current fiscal year. We then divide this number by the number of customers with an ACV over $100,000 we had in the previous fiscal year to arrive at the year-over-year customer retention rate for such customers. We aim to continue to grow our software sales by increasing the adoption of our software by our existing customers and identifying and adding new customers. If we are unable to continue to increase revenue from existing customers or identify new customers, our financial performance will be adversely impacted.
Ability to increase our customer base for our software solutions
We believe that we have significant opportunity to continue to increase the number of customers who use our solutions. We had 1,748 and 1,647 active customers for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. We define the number of active customers as the number of customers who had an ACV of at least $1,000 in the fiscal year. We use $1,000 as a threshold for defining our active customers as this amount will generally exclude customers who only license our PyMOL software, which is our open-source molecular visualization system broadly available at low cost.
While we have significantly penetrated the pharmaceutical industry, with all of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies, measured by 2021 revenue, licensing our software in 2022, our strategy is to grow our customer base. We believe there remains a large opportunity for growth as there are thousands of biopharmaceutical companies that could benefit from our solutions. Additionally, since the physics underlying the properties of drug molecules and materials is the same, we have been able to extend our computational platform to materials science applications in fields such as aerospace, energy, semiconductors, and electronic displays.
We sell our software solutions to a growing number of materials science customers, and we believe materials science industries are only beginning to recognize the potential of computational methods. We continue to provide education and information to increase the awareness of our computational platform across different industries. As part of our strategy, we have driven the adoption of our software by researchers, and we had more than 1,720 academic institutions
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across the world using our software in 2022. We believe that by introducing the benefits of our computational software at the academic stage, we will drive brand awareness and expand the use of our platform to industries that have historically relied on traditional methods for discovery of molecules. Our ability to continue to grow our customer base is dependent upon our ability to educate the market and support the business through investment in our sales and marketing efforts and the ongoing enhancement of our software solutions.
Advancement of our collaborative programs
We have entered into a number of collaborations with various biopharmaceutical companies to advance drug discovery. We will seek to enter into additional collaboration agreements, driven by the synergies we expect to achieve between our platform and the capabilities and expertise of our potential collaborators. We believe that our collaborations will be a significant driver of value for us in the form of equity stakes, research fees, preclinical, clinical, and commercial milestone payments, and option fees, as well as royalties on any potential future sales of products, if approved. We continue to work with our current collaborators to advance existing programs through discovery research stages and initiate additional programs. However, we do not generally exercise control over the development programs of our collaborators and often rely on decisions of the management of such companies with respect to clinical development and commercialization. Our ability to continue to derive value from our collaborations will be driven by both our capability to make progress in these programs as well as whether our collaborators successfully advance such programs beyond the discovery stage. We track the aggregate number of collaborative and partnered programs for which we are eligible to receive any amount of royalties on sales and as of December 31, 2022, we had an aggregate of 15 collaborative and partnered programs for which we are eligible to receive future royalties compared to 13 collaborative and partnered programs as of December 31, 2021.
Ability to progress our proprietary drug discovery programs
We are advancing our pipeline of proprietary drug discovery programs through extensive application of our software platform. Our initial programs were focused on discovering and developing inhibitors for targets in DNA damage response pathways and genetically defined cancers. Since then, we have expanded into other therapeutic areas, including in the areas of immunology and neurology. We recently initiated a Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-1505 in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell lymphomas and currently have clinical trial sites open for screening and enrollment, but we have not yet dosed any patients with SGR-1505. In addition, we continue to advance other wholly-owned programs through IND-enabling studies. We expect to submit an IND application to the FDA for SGR-2921 in the first half of 2023 and for SGR-3515 in 2024, subject to favorable data from IND-enabling studies. In addition, we plan to initiate a Phase 1 clinical trial of SGR-2921 in the second half of 2023, subject to receipt of regulatory clearance.
As we progress these programs, we will strategically evaluate on a program-by-program basis advancing them into preclinical and clinical development ourselves, entering into collaborations to co-develop them with leading industry partners, or out-licensing them to maximize their probability of clinical and commercial success. As part of this strategy, we entered into an exclusive, worldwide collaboration and license agreement with BMS in November 2020, as well as collaboration agreements with Zai Lab Limited in August 2021 and Lilly in September 2022. We will need to continue to devote substantial resources to develop and expand our proprietary drug discovery programs. Our ability to advance and build value in our proprietary drug discovery programs will impact our financial performance, especially as we increasingly shift our focus to these programs.
Components of Results of Operations
Software Products and Services Revenue
Our software business generates revenue from five sources: (i) on-premise software license fees, (ii) hosted software subscription fees, (iii) software maintenance fees, (iv) professional services fees, and (v) contributions.
On-premise software. Our on-premise software license arrangements grant customers the right to use our software on their own in-house servers or their own cloud instances for a specified term, typically for one year. We recognize revenue for on-premise software license fees upfront, either upon delivery of the license or the effective date of the agreement, whichever is later.
Hosted software. Hosted software revenue consists primarily of fees to provide our customers with hosted licenses, which allows these customers to access our cloud-based software solution on their own hardware without taking control of the licenses, and is recognized ratably over the term of the arrangement, which is typically one year. When a
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customer enters into a hosted arrangement for which revenue is recognized over time, the amount paid upfront that is not recognized in the current period is included in deferred revenue in our statement of financial position until the period in which it is recognized.
Software maintenance. Software maintenance includes technical support, updates, and upgrades related to our on-premise software licenses. Software maintenance revenue is recognized ratably over the term of the arrangement. Software maintenance activities are performed in connection with the use of our on-premise software, and may fluctuate from period to period.
Professional services. Professional services include training, technical setup, installation or assisting customers with modeling and structural biology services, where we use our software to perform tasks such as virtual screening and homology modeling on behalf of our customers. These services are generally not related to the core functionality of our software and are recognized as revenue when resources are consumed. Since each professional services agreement represents a unique, ad hoc engagement, professional services revenue may fluctuate from period to period.
Software contribution revenue. Software contribution revenue consists of funds received under a non-reciprocal agreement with Gates Ventures, LLC entered into in June 2020. The agreement is an unconditional non-exchange contribution without restrictions. Revenue was recognized upon execution of the agreement and on the first anniversary of the agreement when invoiced, in accordance with Accounting Standard Codification, or ASC Topic 958, Not-for-Profit Entities as the agreement is not an exchange transaction.
Drug Discovery Revenue
Drug discovery services. We currently generate drug discovery revenue from discovery collaboration arrangements, including research and development payments and discovery and development milestones. We expect our drug discovery revenue to trend higher over time as collaboration arrangements advance and we receive additional revenue from research funding payments, the achievement of discovery, development, and commercial milestones, option fees, and royalties on commercial drug sales. The majority of our current collaborations are in the discovery stage. Milestone payments typically increase in magnitude as a program advances. In addition to revenue from our collaborations, we may also derive drug discovery revenue from out-licensing our wholly-owned drug discovery programs when we believe it will help maximize the probability of clinical and commercial success of the program. Accordingly, in November 2020, we entered into an exclusive, worldwide collaboration and license agreement with BMS, pursuant to which we received an upfront payment of $55.0 million from BMS, of which approximately $22.1 million and $13.7 million were included in our drug discovery revenue for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Overall, we expect that our drug discovery revenue will fluctuate from period to period due to the inherently uncertain nature of the timing of milestone achievement and our dependence on the program decisions of our collaborators.
Drug discovery contribution revenue. Contribution revenue consists of funds received under an agreement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on a cost reimbursement basis, to perform services aimed at accelerating drug discovery in women’s health. Revenue is recognized as conditions are met in accordance with ASC Topic 958, Not-for-Profit Entities.
Cost of Revenues
Software products and services. Cost of revenues for software includes personnel-related expenses (comprised of salaries, benefits, and stock-based compensation) for employees directly involved in the delivery of software solutions, maintenance and professional services, royalties paid for products sold and services performed using third-party licensed software functionality, and allocated overhead (facilities and information technology support) costs. Pursuant to various third-party arrangements, we license technology that is used in our software. These arrangements require us to pay royalties based on sales volume, and such royalty payments represented 4.8% and 7.1% of software revenues in the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Drug discovery. Costs of revenue for drug discovery includes personnel-related expenses and costs of third-party contract research organizations, or CROs, that support discovery activities in our collaborations, royalties paid for services performed using third-party licensed software functionality, allocated compute capacity and overhead costs. While we have incurred costs associated with discovery efforts since late 2017, we have recognized and expect to continue to recognize revenues in the future if and when milestones are achieved. Generally, drug discovery costs of revenue for collaborations are incurred in advance of the revenue milestone achievement.
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Royalty payments to third-parties represented 4.8% and 4.6% of drug discovery revenues in the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. We expect our drug discovery costs of revenue to trend higher over time as our discovery collaborations advance.
Gross Profit and Gross Margin
Gross profit represents revenue less cost of revenues. Gross margin is gross profit expressed as a percentage of revenue. Our software products and services gross margin may fluctuate from period to period as our revenue fluctuates, and as a result of changes in sales mix between on-premise and hosted software solutions. For example, the cost of royalties due for sales of our hosted software arrangements are recognized upfront, whereas the associated revenue is recognized over the term of the underlying agreement. Currently, gross margin is less meaningful for measuring the operating results of our drug discovery business.
Research and Development Expense
Research and development expense accounts for a significant portion of our operating expenses. We recognize research and development expense as incurred. Research and development expense consists of drug discovery and development program costs and costs incurred for continuous development of the technology and science that supports our computational platform, primarily:
•personnel-related expenses, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation for employees engaged in research and development functions;
•expenses incurred under agreements with third-party CROs and consultants involved in our proprietary drug discovery and development programs; and
•allocated compute capacity on our internal discovery and development programs and overhead (facilities and information technology support) costs.
We expect our research and development expense to increase substantially in absolute dollars for the foreseeable future as we continue to invest in activities related to discovery and development of our proprietary drug discovery programs, in advancing our computational platform, and as we incur expenses associated with hiring additional personnel directly involved in such efforts. At this time, we do not know, nor can we reasonably estimate, the nature, timing, or costs of the efforts that will be necessary to complete the development of any of our proprietary drug discovery programs. Since our proprietary drug discovery efforts are in the early stages, currently we do not track research and development expense on a program-by-program basis.
Sales and Marketing Expense
Sales and marketing expense consists primarily of personnel-related costs for our sales and marketing staff and application scientists supporting our sales efforts, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation. Other sales and marketing costs include promotional events that promote and expand knowledge of our company and platform, including industry conferences and events and our annual user group meetings in the United States and Europe, advertising, and allocated overhead costs. Due to the inherent scientific complexity of our software solutions, a high level of scientific expertise is needed to support our sales and marketing efforts. We plan to make focused investments in sales and marketing over the foreseeable future to foster the growth of our business as we aim to expand software sales to existing customers and increase our customer base.
General and Administrative Expense
General and administrative expense consists of personnel-related expenses associated with our executive, legal, finance, human resources, information technology, and other administrative functions, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation. General and administrative expense also includes professional fees for external legal, accounting and other consulting services, allocated overhead costs, and other general operating expenses.
We expect to increase the size of our general and administrative staff to support the anticipated growth of our business. We expect to continue to incur additional expenses as a result of operating as a public company, including costs to comply with the rules and regulations applicable to companies listed on a U.S. securities exchange and costs related to compliance and reporting obligations pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. In addition, as a public company, we expect to continue to incur increased expenses such as insurance and
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professional services. As a result, we expect the dollar amount of our general and administrative expense to increase for the foreseeable future.
Gain (Loss) on Equity Investments
Gain (loss) on equity investments consists of realized gains in the form of cash distributions received from our equity investments offset by realized losses on the sale of equity.
Change in Fair Value
Fair value gains and losses consist of adjustments to the fair value of our equity investments, including Nimbus Therapeutics, Inc., or Nimbus, Structure Therapeutics Inc., formerly known as ShouTi Inc., or Structure Therapeutics, Eonix, LLC, or Eonix, and Morphic Holding, Inc., or Morphic. We remeasure our investments at each period end.
We expect that fair value gains and losses will fluctuate significantly in future periods.
Other Income
Other income consists of interest earned on our cash equivalents and marketable securities, interest expense, and transactional foreign exchange gains and losses.
Income Tax Expense
Income tax expense consists of U.S. federal and state income taxes and income taxes in certain foreign jurisdictions in which we conduct business. We maintain a full valuation allowance on our federal and state deferred tax assets as we have concluded that it is not more likely than not that the deferred tax assets will be realized.
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Results of Operations
Comparison of the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021
The following table summarizes our results of operations data for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021:
| Year Ended December 31, | Change | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2021 | $ | % | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||
| Revenues: | |||||||||||||
| Software products and services | $ | 135,578 | $ | 113,236 | $ | 22,342 | 20% | ||||||
| Drug discovery | 45,377 | 24,695 | 20,682 | 84% | |||||||||
| Total revenues | 180,955 | 137,931 | 43,024 | 31% | |||||||||
| Cost of revenues: | |||||||||||||
| Software products and services | 29,576 | 26,495 | 3,081 | 12% | |||||||||
| Drug discovery | 50,357 | 45,816 | 4,541 | 10% | |||||||||
| Total cost of revenues | 79,933 | 72,311 | 7,622 | 11% | |||||||||
| Gross profit | 101,022 | 65,620 | 35,402 | 54% | |||||||||
| Operating expenses: | |||||||||||||
| Research and development | 126,372 | 90,904 | 35,468 | 39% | |||||||||
| Sales and marketing | 30,642 | 22,150 | 8,492 | 38% | |||||||||
| General and administrative | 90,825 | 64,009 | 26,816 | 42% | |||||||||
| Total operating expenses | 247,839 | 177,063 | 70,776 | 40% | |||||||||
| Loss from operations | (146,817) | (111,443) | (35,374) | 32% | |||||||||
| Other income (expense): | |||||||||||||
| Gain (loss) on equity investments | 11,825 | (1,781) | 13,606 | ||||||||||
| Change in fair value | (18,084) | 11,359 | (29,443) | ||||||||||
| Other income | 3,950 | 1,057 | 2,893 | ||||||||||
| Total other (expense) income | (2,309) | 10,635 | (12,944) | ||||||||||
| Loss before income taxes | (149,126) | (100,808) | (48,318) | ||||||||||
| Income tax expense | 63 | 411 | (348) | ||||||||||
| Net loss | (149,189) | (101,219) | (47,970) | ||||||||||
| Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest | (3) | (826) | 823 | ||||||||||
| Net loss attributable to Schrödinger stockholders | $ | (149,186) | $ | (100,393) | $ | (48,793) |
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Revenues
| Year Ended December 31, | Change | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2021 | $ | % | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||
| Revenues: | |||||||||||||
| Software | |||||||||||||
| On-premise software | $ | 84,487 | $ | 74,598 | $ | 9,889 | 13% | ||||||
| Hosted software | 14,890 | 11,076 | 3,814 | 34% | |||||||||
| Software maintenance | 19,996 | 17,294 | 2,702 | 16% | |||||||||
| Professional services | 15,205 | 9,268 | 5,937 | 64% | |||||||||
| Software contribution | 1,000 | 1,000 | — | —% | |||||||||
| Total software products and services | 135,578 | 113,236 | 22,342 | 20% | |||||||||
| Drug Discovery | |||||||||||||
| Drug discovery services | 43,427 | 24,584 | 18,843 | 77% | |||||||||
| Drug discovery contribution | 1,950 | 111 | 1,839 | 1657% | |||||||||
| Total drug discovery | 45,377 | 24,695 | 20,682 | 84% | |||||||||
| Total revenues | $ | 180,955 | $ | 137,931 | $ | 43,024 | 31% |
Software Products and Services Revenue
On-premise software. The increase in revenues for on-premise software during the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021 was primarily attributable to growth from existing customers, new customer growth, and an increase in multi-year arrangements for which revenue was recognized ahead of annual billings during the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021.
Hosted software. The increase in revenues for hosted software during the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021 was primarily due to increased spend from existing hosted customers, as well as growth in new customers purchasing hosted software subscriptions, for which revenue is recognized ratably over time.
Software maintenance. The increase in revenues for software maintenance during the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021 was primarily due to the increase in on-premise software sales in current and previous years. Software maintenance revenue is recognized ratably over time.
Professional services. The increase in revenues from professional services during the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021 was primarily due to the addition of XTAL service revenue subsequent to the acquisition, and the increased sales and timing of technology and modeling service projects.
Software contribution revenue. Contribution revenue during the year ended December 31, 2022 and the year ended December 31, 2021 was due to funds received under an agreement with Gates Ventures, LLC, which began in June 2020.
Drug Discovery Revenue
Drug discovery services. The increase in revenues for drug discovery services during the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021 was primarily due to the progress of existing and new collaborations accomplished during the period, the timing and amount of collaboration milestones achieved, as well as research funding received during 2022 as compared to 2021. We expect that our revenue will fluctuate from period to period due to the inherently uncertain nature of the timing of milestone achievement and our dependence on the program decisions of our collaborators.
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Drug discovery contribution revenue. Contribution revenue during the year ended December 31, 2022 was due to services performed under an agreement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, aimed at accelerating drug discovery in women’s health, which began in November 2021.
Cost of Revenues
| Year Ended December 31, | Change | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2021 | $ | % | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||
| Cost of revenues: | |||||||||||||
| Software products and services | $ | 29,576 | $ | 26,495 | $ | 3,081 | 12% | ||||||
| Gross margin | 78 | % | 77 | % | |||||||||
| Drug discovery | 50,357 | 45,816 | 4,541 | 10% |
Software products and services. The increase in cost of revenues for software products and services during the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021 was attributable to increases of approximately $3.3 million in personnel-related expense and approximately $1.5 million in other expenses, offset by decreases of approximately $1.5 million in royalty expense and approximately $0.2 million in cloud computing expense.
Software products and services gross margin. The increase in software gross margin during the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021 was primarily due to the reduction of $0.7 million in royalty expense as a result of replacing third-party licensed code with internally built functionality, as well as the sales mix.
Drug discovery. The increase in cost of revenues for drug discovery during the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021 was attributable to increases of approximately $1.3 million in third-party CRO costs associated with the expansion and progression of collaboration drug discovery programs, approximately $1.3 million in personnel-related expense, approximately $1.0 million in royalty expense, approximately $0.1 million in cloud computing expense, and approximately $0.8 million in other expenses.
Research and Development Expense
| Year Ended December 31, | Change | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2021 | $ | % | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||
| Research and development | $ | 126,372 | $ | 90,904 | $ | 35,468 | 39% |
The increase in research and development expense during the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021 was attributable to increases of approximately $21.8 million in personnel-related expense, approximately $5.4 million in CRO costs associated with the expansion and progression of our proprietary drug discovery programs, approximately $4.0 million in cloud computing expense, approximately $2.0 million related to office rent, and approximately $2.3 million in other expenses.
Sales and Marketing Expense
| Year Ended December 31, | Change | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2021 | $ | % | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | $ | 30,642 | $ | 22,150 | $ | 8,492 | 38% |
The increase in sales and marketing expense during the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021 was attributable to increases of approximately $4.9 million in personnel-related expense,
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approximately $1.3 million in travel and entertainment expenses, approximately $0.7 million in cloud computing expense, and approximately $1.6 million in other expenses.
General and Administrative Expense
| Year Ended December 31, | Change | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2021 | $ | % | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||
| General and administrative | $ | 90,825 | $ | 64,009 | $ | 26,816 | 42% |
The increase in general and administrative expense during the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021 was attributable to increases of approximately $16.6 million of personnel-related expense, approximately $2.6 million related to professional services, approximately $1.3 million related to one-time non-recurring state and local tax items, approximately $1.2 million in travel and entertainment expense, approximately $1.2 million in cloud computing expense, approximately $1.2 million related to office rent, and approximately $2.7 million in other expenses, primarily reflecting costs necessary to build and maintain a public company infrastructure.
Gain (Loss) on Equity Investments
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2021 | Change | ||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||
| Gain (loss) on equity investments | $ | 11,825 | $ | (1,781) | $ | 13,606 |
The gain on equity investments during the year ended December 31, 2022 was due to cash received from a third party, who previously acquired a collaborator in which we held an equity stake, in exchange for the termination of our rights to receive potential earnouts under the acquisition agreement. The loss on equity investments during the year ended December 31, 2021 was primarily due to the realized loss on the disposal of our equity stake in Relay Therapeutics, or Relay.
Change in Fair Value
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2021 | Change | ||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||
| Change in fair value | $ | (18,084) | $ | 11,359 | $ | (29,443) |
The change in fair value during the year ended December 31, 2022 was primarily due to a loss on our investment in Morphic. The change in fair value during the year ended December 31, 2021 was primarily due to a gain on our investment in Morphic.
Other Income
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2021 | Change | ||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||
| Other income | $ | 3,950 | $ | 1,057 | $ | 2,893 |
The increase in other income during the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021 was attributable to an increase in interest rates on our investment portfolio offset by exchange rate variances.
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Income Tax Expense
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2021 | Change | ||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||
| Income tax expense | $ | 63 | $ | 411 | $ | (348) |
Due to the full valuation allowance on our U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets, income tax expense represents our income tax obligations in certain states and taxes in foreign jurisdictions in which we conduct business.
At December 31, 2022, we had federal and state net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $270.9 million and $170.0 million, respectively. These carryforwards, with the exception of federal net operating losses generated post 2017, will expire between 2023 and 2042 if not used by us to reduce income taxes payable in future periods. Utilization of post-2017 federal net operating loss carryforwards is limited to 80% of taxable income generated in a given tax year and carry forward indefinitely. At December 31, 2022, we had federal and state research and development tax credit carryforwards of approximately $19.5 million and $1.3 million, respectively. These carryforwards will expire between 2023 and 2042 if not used by us to reduce income taxes payable in future periods.
As required by ASC Topic 740, Income Taxes, our management has evaluated the positive and negative evidence bearing upon the realizability of our deferred tax assets, which are composed principally of net operating loss carryforwards and research and development credit carryforwards. Management has determined that it is more likely than not that we will not realize the benefits of our federal and state deferred tax assets and, as a result, a valuation allowance of $138.0 million and $95.3 million has been established at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. The change in the valuation allowance for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021 was $42.7 million and $37.1 million, respectively. We recorded income tax expense of $0.1 million and $0.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Quarterly Results of Operations
The following tables summarize our selected unaudited quarterly results of operations data for each of the eight quarters in the period ended December 31, 2022. The information for each of these quarters has been prepared on the same basis as our audited annual consolidated financial statements and reflect, in the opinion of management, all adjustments of a normal, recurring nature that are necessary for the fair statement of the results of operations for these periods. This data should be read in conjunction with our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report.
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Historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full fiscal year or any other period.
| Three Months Ended | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services | $ | 47,819 | $ | 24,667 | $ | 30,011 | $ | 33,081 | $ | 38,564 | $ | 24,280 | $ | 24,052 | $ | 26,340 | ||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | 9,024 | 12,313 | 8,458 | 15,582 | 7,606 | 5,570 | 5,732 | 5,787 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total revenues | 56,843 | 36,980 | 38,469 | 48,663 | 46,170 | 29,850 | 29,784 | 32,127 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services(1) | 8,098 | 6,866 | 7,101 | 7,511 | 8,337 | 6,611 | 5,641 | 5,906 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery(1) | 10,041 | 12,913 | 14,234 | 13,169 | 11,472 | 12,124 | 12,163 | 10,057 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total cost of revenues | 18,139 | 19,779 | 21,335 | 20,680 | 19,809 | 18,735 | 17,804 | 15,963 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gross profit | 38,704 | 17,201 | 17,134 | 27,983 | 26,361 | 11,115 | 11,980 | 16,164 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating expenses: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Research and development(1) | 34,542 | 32,885 | 31,123 | 27,822 | 25,145 | 23,219 | 21,092 | 21,448 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing(1) | 9,382 | 7,161 | 7,428 | 6,671 | 5,975 | 5,556 | 5,380 | 5,239 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative(1) | 23,318 | 23,318 | 22,056 | 22,133 | 17,756 | 17,014 | 15,850 | 13,389 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total operating expenses | 67,242 | 63,364 | 60,607 | 56,626 | 48,876 | 45,789 | 42,322 | 40,076 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loss from operations | (28,538) | (46,163) | (43,473) | (28,643) | (22,515) | (34,674) | (30,342) | (23,912) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other (expense) income: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Loss) gain on equity investments | — | (3) | 11,828 | — | — | — | — | (1,781) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Change in fair value | (1,493) | 5,273 | (15,700) | (6,164) | (7,920) | (627) | (4,918) | 24,824 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other income (expense) | 2,687 | 1,231 | (296) | 328 | (6) | 286 | 357 | 420 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total other income (expense) | 1,194 | 6,501 | (4,168) | (5,836) | (7,926) | (341) | (4,561) | 23,463 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loss before income taxes | (27,344) | (39,662) | (47,641) | (34,479) | (30,441) | (35,015) | (34,903) | (449) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Income tax (benefit) expense | (136) | 194 | 33 | (28) | 274 | (4) | 67 | 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | (27,208) | (39,856) | (47,674) | (34,451) | (30,715) | (35,011) | (34,970) | (523) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net (loss) income attributable to noncontrolling interest | (1) | (3) | 12 | (11) | (2) | (4) | (326) | (494) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss attributable to Schrödinger stockholders | $ | (27,207) | $ | (39,853) | $ | (47,686) | $ | (34,440) | $ | (30,713) | $ | (35,007) | $ | (34,644) | $ | (29) |
(1)Includes stock-based compensation as indicated in the table located further below.
Revenues:
| Three Months Ended | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| On-premise software | $ | 33,627 | $ | 12,579 | $ | 16,595 | $ | 21,686 | $ | 27,295 | $ | 15,496 | $ | 14,452 | $ | 17,355 | ||||||||||||||
| Hosted software | 4,125 | 3,914 | 3,596 | 3,255 | 3,088 | 2,684 | 2,704 | 2,600 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software maintenance | 5,255 | 5,063 | 4,952 | 4,726 | 4,612 | 4,401 | 4,176 | 4,105 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Professional services | 4,812 | 3,111 | 3,868 | 3,414 | 3,569 | 1,699 | 1,720 | 2,280 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenue from contracts with customers | 47,819 | 24,667 | 29,011 | 33,081 | 38,564 | 24,280 | 23,052 | 26,340 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software contribution | — | — | 1,000 | — | — | — | 1,000 | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total software products and services revenue | 47,819 | 24,667 | 30,011 | 33,081 | 38,564 | 24,280 | 24,052 | 26,340 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery services | 8,450 | 11,717 | 8,019 | 15,241 | 7,495 | 5,570 | 5,732 | 5,787 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery contribution | 574 | 596 | 439 | 341 | 111 | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total drug discovery | 9,024 | 12,313 | 8,458 | 15,582 | 7,606 | 5,570 | 5,732 | 5,787 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total revenues | $ | 56,843 | $ | 36,980 | $ | 38,469 | $ | 48,663 | $ | 46,170 | $ | 29,850 | $ | 29,784 | $ | 32,127 |
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Deferred Revenue:
| As of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deferred revenue | $ | 83,529 | $ | 65,897 | $ | 67,545 | $ | 78,353 | $ | 85,432 | $ | 76,318 | $ | 78,526 | $ | 78,115 |
Gross Margin:
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| Software products and services gross margin | 83 | % | 72 | % | 76 | % | 77 | % | 78 | % | 73 | % | 77 | % | 78 | % |
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| Software products and services | $ | 580 | $ | 596 | $ | 584 | $ | 485 | $ | 389 | $ | 396 | $ | 382 | $ | 229 | ||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | $ | 626 | $ | 764 | $ | 944 | $ | 803 | $ | 626 | $ | 669 | $ | 738 | $ | 428 | ||||||||||||||
| Research and development | $ | 3,231 | $ | 3,026 | $ | 2,977 | $ | 2,582 | $ | 2,157 | $ | 2,130 | $ | 1,925 | $ | 1,228 | ||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | $ | 867 | $ | 728 | $ | 699 | $ | 524 | $ | 331 | $ | 370 | $ | 362 | $ | 218 | ||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | $ | 4,902 | $ | 4,750 | $ | 5,223 | $ | 4,740 | $ | 3,953 | $ | 4,087 | $ | 3,609 | $ | 2,263 | ||||||||||||||
| Total stock-based compensation expense | $ | 10,206 | $ | 9,864 | $ | 10,427 | $ | 9,134 | $ | 7,456 | $ | 7,652 | $ | 7,016 | $ | 4,366 |
Depreciation and Amortization:
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| Software products and services | $ | 113 | $ | 106 | $ | 118 | $ | 99 | $ | 61 | $ | 56 | $ | 68 | $ | 86 | ||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | $ | 97 | $ | 117 | $ | 127 | $ | 112 | $ | 82 | $ | 106 | $ | 167 | $ | 232 | ||||||||||||||
| Research and development | $ | 425 | $ | 384 | $ | 351 | $ | 308 | $ | 212 | $ | 163 | $ | 195 | $ | 247 | ||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | $ | 114 | $ | 101 | $ | 118 | $ | 79 | $ | 65 | $ | 59 | $ | 57 | $ | 66 | ||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | $ | 393 | $ | 399 | $ | 412 | $ | 371 | $ | 232 | $ | 197 | $ | 240 | $ | 256 | ||||||||||||||
| Total depreciation and amortization expense | $ | 1,142 | $ | 1,107 | $ | 1,126 | $ | 969 | $ | 652 | $ | 581 | $ | 727 | $ | 887 |
Quarterly Revenue Trends
On-premise software revenue is subject to seasonality that generally favors the first and fourth quarter of each year, primarily due to the timing of customer renewals for on-premise software arrangements, for which revenue is recognized at a single point in time. Hosted software revenue grew more steadily over the periods presented, as existing
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customers and new customers increased their spend on hosted solutions, for which revenue is recognized over time. As a result, a portion of the software products and services revenue we reported in each period was attributable to sales we made in prior periods. Software maintenance revenue is related to on-premise software sales and also is recognized ratably over the term of the underlying agreement. Therefore, increases or decreases in customer sales, customer expansion, or renewals in a period may not be immediately reflected in revenue for the period. Our professional services arrangements are typically project-based and, therefore, fluctuated based on individual customer needs and ongoing project support. Drug discovery revenue fluctuated from period to period based on the achievement of specific collaboration milestones, as well as advancements of collaborative services. The majority of our current collaborations are in the discovery stage. Milestone payments typically increase in magnitude as a program advances.
Quarterly Deferred Revenue Trends
Deferred revenue consists of the unearned portion of customer billings, which is recognized as revenue in accordance with our revenue recognition policy, as well as the unearned portion of unbilled collaboration milestones that are deemed probable in advance of actual achievement. Deferred revenue balances have fluctuated based on the timing of sales, shifts in product mix, fluctuations to the number and size of milestones that were deemed probable in advance of actual achievement, and the measurement of progress toward completion for service projects.
Quarterly Gross Margin Trends
Our software products and services gross margin experienced fluctuations over the periods presented due to increased headcount and the product mix for software and services, as the cost of royalties due on sales of our hosted software is recognized upfront, while the associated revenue is recognized over the term of the related agreement. Currently, gross margin is less meaningful for measuring the operating results of our drug discovery business.
Quarterly Operating Expense Trends
Operating expenses generally increased during the periods presented due to increased headcount and personnel-related expenses involved in research and development, sales and marketing, general and administrative activities, and CRO costs related to our proprietary drug discovery programs. These increases in headcount across our operations have supported the overall growth and management of our business. CRO cost increases were driven by the expansion and progression of our proprietary drug discovery programs.
Quarterly Other Income (Expense) Trends
Other income (expense) during the periods presented consisted primarily of fair value gains and losses related to our equity investments in Morphic and Structure Therapeutics, and, to a lesser degree, interest income.
Segment Information
The following tables summarize segment information for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021. See Note 16 – Segment Reporting in our audited consolidated financial statements for additional information regarding our segments.
Segment gross profit is derived by deducting operational expenditures, with the exception of research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administrative activities, from U.S. GAAP revenue. Operational expenditures are expenditures made that are directly attributable to the reportable segment. In many cases, these expenditures are allocated to the segments based on headcount. The reportable segment expenditures include compensation, supplies, and services from contract research organizations.
Certain cost items are not allocated to our reportable segments. These cost items primarily consist of compensation and general operational expenses associated with our research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administrative activities. These costs are incurred by both segments and, due to the integrated nature of our software and drug discovery segments, any allocation methodology would be arbitrary and provide no meaningful analysis.
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Additionally, we report assets on a consolidated basis and do not allocate assets to our reportable segments for purposes of assessing segment performance or allocating resources.
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| Software | $ | 135,578 | $ | 113,236 | ||
| Drug discovery | 45,377 | 24,695 | ||||
| Total segment revenues | $ | 180,955 | $ | 137,931 | ||
| Segment gross profit: | ||||||
| Software | $ | 106,002 | $ | 86,741 | ||
| Drug discovery | $ | (4,980) | $ | (21,121) | ||
| Total segment gross profit | $ | 101,022 | $ | 65,620 | ||
| Unallocated (expense) income: | ||||||
| Research and development | (126,372) | (90,904) | ||||
| Sales and marketing | (30,642) | (22,150) | ||||
| General and administrative | (90,825) | (64,009) | ||||
| Gain (loss) on equity investment | 11,825 | (1,781) | ||||
| Change in fair value | (18,084) | 11,359 | ||||
| Interest | 3,950 | 1,057 | ||||
| Income taxes | (63) | (411) | ||||
| Consolidated net loss | $ | (149,189) | $ | (101,219) |
Liquidity, Capital Resources and Funding Requirements
We have a history of significant operating losses and have incurred negative cash flows from operations from inception through the year ended December 31, 2022. As of December 31, 2022, we had an accumulated deficit of $379.1 million.
We have funded our operations to date principally from the sale of our equity securities, including our initial public offering and our follow-on public offering, and to a lesser extent, from sales of our software solutions and from upfront payments, research funding and milestone payments from our drug discovery collaborations, and from distributions on account of, or proceeds from the sale of, our equity stakes in our collaborators. Our operating cash flows are impacted by the magnitude and timing of our software sales and by the magnitude and timing of our drug discovery milestone achievements and research funding fees.
As of December 31, 2022, we had cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash, and marketable securities of $456.3 million. On February 13, 2023, on account of our equity stake in Nimbus, we received a $111.3 million cash distribution from Nimbus in connection with Takeda’s acquisition of Nimbus Lakshmi, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nimbus, and its TYK2 inhibitor NDI-034858.
On March 4, 2021, we filed a universal shelf registration statement on Form S-3 which allows us to offer and sell an indeterminate number of shares of common stock, preferred stock, depositary shares or warrants, or an indeterminate principal amount of debt securities, from time to time pursuant to one or more offerings at prices and terms to be determined at the time of the sale. As of December 31, 2022, no securities had been sold under the Form S-3.
We believe our existing cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities as of December 31, 2022, together with the $111.3 million cash distribution received from Nimbus in February 2023, will be sufficient to fund our operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements through at least the next 24 months. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including the growth of our software revenue, the timing and extent of spending to support research and development efforts, the continued expansion of software sales and marketing activities, the timing and receipt of milestone payments from our collaborations, as well as spending to support, advance, and broaden our
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proprietary drug discovery programs. Furthermore, our capital requirements will also change depending on the timing and receipt of any distributions we may receive from our equity stakes in our drug discovery collaborators and partners. The potential for these distributions, and the amounts which we may be entitled to receive, are difficult to predict due to the inherent uncertainty of the events which may trigger such distributions.
We plan to utilize the existing cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities on hand primarily to fund our software and drug discovery activities. With respect to our wholly-owned programs, as part of our strategy we may choose to advance them into preclinical and clinical development ourselves, enter into collaborations to co-develop them with leading industry partners, or out-license them to maximize their clinical and commercial opportunities.
We may be required to seek additional equity or debt financing. In the event that we require additional financing, we may not be able to raise such financing on terms acceptable to us or at all. If we are unable to raise additional capital or generate cash flows necessary to maintain or expand our operations and invest in our platform, we may not be able to compete successfully, which would harm our business, operations and financial condition. In addition, we may seek additional capital due to favorable market conditions or strategic considerations, even if we believe we have sufficient funds for our current or future operating plans.
Our contractual obligations as of December 31, 2022 include operating lease obligations of $187.1 million, consisting of our continuing rent obligations through December 2037, primarily for our principal offices located in New York, New York for $152.2 million, Cambridge, Massachusetts for $18.1 million and Portland, Oregon for $5.0 million, which expire in December 2037, June 2032 and September 2026, respectively. In addition, see Note 7 – Commitments and Contingencies to our consolidated financial statements appearing in Item 8 of this Annual Report for more information relating to our operating lease obligations.
In December 2022, we entered into an agreement with a third-party to establish an exclusive integrated drug discovery dedicated facility. The agreement contains a minimum payment obligation, which totals $21.8 million over five years after the date of first occupancy.
In June 2022, we entered into an agreement with a third-party CRO to provide approximately $10.5 million of services, with an estimated service period extending through March 2025.
In June 2022, we entered into a non-cancelable contract to purchase laboratory equipment of $4.2 million, with payment terms extending through June 2023.
In December 2020, we entered into a five-year agreement with a third-party cloud provider for compute power. The agreement contains a minimum payment obligation, which totals $60 million over the five years after the date we entered into the agreement. There is no annual commitment.
We also enter into agreements in the normal course of business with CRO vendors for research, preclinical studies, and clinical trials, professional consultants for expert advice, and other vendors for various products and services. These contracts do not contain any minimum purchase commitments and are cancellable at any time by us, generally upon 30 days prior written notice, and therefore we believe that our non-cancelable obligations under these agreements are not material. We have also agreed to pay volume-based royalties to third-parties for use of software functionality under various licensing and related agreements. See Note 2 - Significant Accounting Policies to our audited consolidated financial statements appearing in Item 8 of this Annual Report for more information relating to our royalties.
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Cash Flows
The following table presents a summary of our cash flows for the periods shown:
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| Net cash used in operating activities | $ | (119,683) | $ | (70,669) | ||
| Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities | 90,023 | (16,812) | ||||
| Net cash provided by financing activities | 2,110 | 7,952 | ||||
| Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash | $ | (27,550) | $ | (79,529) |
Operating activities
During the year ended December 31, 2022, operating activities used approximately $119.7 million in cash primarily resulting from net loss of $149.2 million, which included an $11.8 million gain from equity investments, partially offset by $5.0 million of non-cash operating expenses included in net loss, including depreciation and investment accretion costs, $39.6 million in stock-based compensation, and $18.1 million of non-cash loss on changes in fair value. Changes in our operating assets and liabilities used cash of approximately $21.4 million.
During the year ended December 31, 2021, operating activities used approximately $70.7 million in cash primarily resulting from net loss of $101.2 million, which included an $11.4 million non-cash gain from changes in fair value, $26.5 million in stock-based compensation costs and $9.0 million of other non-cash operating expenses included in net loss, including depreciation and investment accretion costs, and a $1.8 million loss on equity investment that is classified as an investing activity. Changes in our operating assets and liabilities provided cash of approximately $4.7 million.
Investing activities
During the year ended December 31, 2022, investing activities provided approximately $90.0 million of cash, consisting of $93.2 million provided by marketable securities, net of purchases and $11.8 million in cash from a third party, who previously acquired a collaborator in which we held an equity stake, in exchange for the termination of our rights to receive potential earnouts under the acquisition agreement. These items are partially offset by $8.0 million in cash used for purchases of property and equipment, $0.6 million used to make equity investments in Structure Therapeutics, and $6.4 million used to acquire XTAL, net of cash acquired.
During the year ended December 31, 2021, investing activities used approximately $16.8 million of cash, consisting of $22.1 million used for purchases of marketable securities, net of maturities, $7.2 million used for purchases of property and equipment and $3.7 million used to make equity investments in Ajax Therapeutics, Inc. and Structure Therapeutics, partially offset by $15.7 million provided by the sale of our equity stake in Relay and $0.4 million provided by the distribution of funds from Petra Pharma Corporation in connection with its acquisition by a third party.
Financing activities
During the year ended December 31, 2022, financing activities provided approximately $2.1 million of cash, primarily attributable to proceeds from stock option exercises.
During the year ended December 31, 2021, financing activities provided approximately $8.0 million of cash, primarily attributable to proceeds from stock option exercises.
Seasonality
Generally, the first and fourth quarter of each year have typically been our largest quarters for software products and services revenue, primarily due to the timing of customer renewals of on-premise software arrangements, for which revenue is recognized at a single point in time. Seasonality has been a less significant factor for our hosted software arrangements, for which revenue is recognized ratably over time. Seasonality has not been a factor for our drug discovery revenues. Historical seasonality may not be indicative of future periods.
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Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Critical accounting policies are those that are both most important to the portrayal of a company's financial condition and results, and that require management's most difficult, subjective, and complex judgments, often as a result of the need to make estimates about the effect of matters that are inherently uncertain. Our management’s discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations is based on our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of these consolidated financial statements requires us to make judgments and estimates that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities in our consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes. We base our estimates on historical experience, known trends and events, and our beliefs of what could occur in the future considering available information. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our judgments and estimates in light of changes in circumstances, facts, and experience. The effects of material revisions in estimates, if any, are reflected in the consolidated financial statements prospectively from the date of change in estimates.
While our significant accounting policies are described in more detail in Note 2 – Significant Accounting Policies to our consolidated financial statements appearing in Item 8 of this Annual Report, we believe the following critical accounting estimates used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements require the most difficult, subjective and complex judgments and estimates and have had, or are reasonably likely to have a material impact on our financial condition or results of operations.
Revenue
We recognize revenue in accordance with ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, except for contracts that are within the scope of other standards, such as contribution grants and certain collaboration arrangements. In accordance with ASC 606, we recognize revenue when our customer obtains control of promised goods or services, in an amount that reflects the consideration which we expect to receive in exchange for those goods or services. To determine revenue recognition for arrangements that we determine are within the scope of ASC 606, we perform the following five steps: (i) identify the contract(s) with a customer; (ii) identify the performance obligations in the contract; (iii) determine the transaction price; (iv) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; and (v) recognize revenue when or as we satisfy a performance obligation.
Significant management judgment is applied to determine the allocation of the transaction price and measurement of progress, including (1) the constraint on variable consideration, (2) the allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations using their standalone selling price, or SSP, and (3) the appropriate input or output based method to recognize collaboration revenue and the extent of progress to date.
Variable consideration: Our revenue may include upfront payments for the performance of services in the future, which have both fixed and variable consideration. We include the unconstrained amount of estimated variable consideration in the transaction price. The amount included in the transaction price is constrained to the amount for which it is probable that a significant reversal of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur. At the end of each subsequent reporting period, we re-evaluate the estimated variable consideration included in the transaction price and any related constraint and, if necessary, adjust our estimate of the overall transaction price.
Research and development, regulatory or commercial milestones in our collaboration agreements may include some, but not necessarily all, of the following types of events:
•completion of preclinical research and development work leading to selection of product candidates;
•initiation of Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 clinical trials;
•filing of regulatory applications for marketing approval in the United States, Europe or Japan;
•marketing approval in major markets, such as the United States, Europe, or Japan;
•commercial milestones and/or commercial royalties; and
•achievement of certain other technical, scientific, or development criteria.
At the inception of each arrangement that includes research, development, or regulatory milestone payments, we evaluate whether the milestones are considered probable of being reached and estimate the amount to be included in the transaction price using the most likely amount method. If it is probable that a significant revenue reversal would not occur,
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the associated milestone value is included in the transaction price. Milestone payments that are not within our control or that of the licensee, such as regulatory approvals, are not considered probable of being achieved until those approvals are received. The transaction price is then allocated to each performance obligation on an SSP basis, for which we recognize revenue as or when the performance obligations under the contract are satisfied. At the end of each subsequent reporting period, we re-evaluate the probability of achievement of such development milestones and any related constraint, and if necessary, adjust our estimate of the overall transaction price. Any such adjustments are recorded on a cumulative catch-up basis, which may affect license, collaboration, and other revenues and earnings in the period of adjustment. The process of successfully achieving the criteria for the milestone payments is highly uncertain. Consequently, there is a risk that we may not earn all of the milestone payments from each of our collaborators. We recognized $14.7 million and $6.3 million from drug discovery milestones for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Software performance obligations and transaction price allocation: At contract inception, we assess the goods or services promised within each contract that falls under the scope of ASC 606 to identify distinct performance obligations, which requires significant judgment based on the nature of each transaction. We allocate the transaction price to each distinct performance obligation on an SSP basis. We determine the SSP using information that includes historical discounting practices, market conditions, cost-plus analysis, and other observable inputs. We typically have more than one SSP for individual performance obligations due to the stratification of those items by classes of customers and circumstances. In these instances, we may use information such as the size and geographic region of the customer in determining the SSP. We may also estimate SSP based on management judgment by considering available data such as internal cost and margin objectives, pricing strategies, market/competitive conditions, historical profitability data, as well as other observable inputs. We establish SSP ranges for our products and services and reassesses them periodically. The determination of SSP required significant management judgment.
Collaboration agreement transaction price allocation and measurement of progress: At the inception of each arrangement, we utilize judgment to assess the nature of the performance obligations to determine whether they are distinct or a single combined performance obligation. We allocate the transaction price to each performance obligation based on the relative SSP of each performance obligation at inception, which will be determined based on each performance obligation’s estimated SSP. We determine the SSP at contract inception of the research activities based on internal estimates of the costs to perform the services, inclusive of a reasonable profit margin. Significant judgment is used to determine the inputs for total costs to perform the research activities, which may include the length of time required, the internal hours expected to be incurred on the services and the number and costs of various studies that will be performed by third-parties to complete the research plan. Revenue is recognized on a proportional performance basis over the period of service, using input-based measurements to estimate the performance. Changes to these assumptions may have a material effect on the amount and timing of revenue recognized. We recognized revenue of $24.3 million and $14.6 million related to collaboration agreements with proportional performance measurement for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
See Note 2 – Significant Accounting Policies to our consolidated financial statements appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report for a discussion of recently issued accounting pronouncements.
FY 2021 10-K MD&A
SEC filing source: 0001564590-22-006713.
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations together with our consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report. Some of the information contained in this discussion and analysis or set forth elsewhere in this Annual Report, including information with respect to our plans and strategy for our business and related financing, includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. As a result of many factors, including those factors set forth in “Risk Factors” of this Annual Report, our actual results could differ materially from the results described in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in the following discussion and analysis. For further information regarding our forward-looking statements, see “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” in this Annual Report.
Overview
We are transforming the way therapeutics and materials are discovered. Our differentiated, physics-based software platform enables discovery of high-quality, novel molecules for drug development and materials applications more rapidly, at lower cost, and with, we believe, a higher likelihood of success compared to traditional methods. Our software platform is used by biopharmaceutical and industrial companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories around the world. Our multidisciplinary drug discovery team also leverages our software platform to advance collaborative drug discovery and development programs and our own pipeline of novel therapeutics to address unmet medical needs.
Since our founding, we have been primarily focused on developing our computational platform, which is capable of predicting critical properties of molecules with a high degree of accuracy, as well as advancing drug discovery programs both with our collaborators and internally. We have devoted substantially all of our resources to introducing new capabilities and refining our software, conducting research and development activities, recruiting skilled personnel, and providing general and administrative support for these operations.
We are using our computational platform for both collaborative and internal drug discovery programs. Over the last decade, we have entered into a number of collaborations with biopharmaceutical companies that have provided us with significant income and have the potential to produce additional milestone payments, option fees, and future royalties. Furthermore, in mid-2018, we launched a pipeline of internal, wholly-owned programs. We continue to advance multiple internal programs through investigational new drug, or IND, -enabling studies. We expect to submit an IND application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, for our MALT1 program in the first half of 2022, subject to receiving regulatory clearance, we expect to initiate a Phase 1 clinical trial of our MALT1 inhibitor in patients with relapsed and resistant lymphoma in the second half of 2022. We also plan to submit IND applications to the FDA for our CDC7 program in early 2023 and our WEE1 program in 2023, subject to favorable data from IND-enabling studies. In addition, we plan to initiate a Phase 1 clinical trial of our CDC7 inhibitor in 2023, subject to receipt of regulatory clearance.
We have funded our operations to date principally from the sale of our equity securities, including our initial public offering and our follow-on public offering, and to a lesser extent, from sales of our software solutions and from upfront payments, research funding and milestone payments from our drug discovery collaborations, and from distributions on account of, or proceeds from the sale of, our equity stakes in our collaborators.
We currently conduct our operations through two reportable segments: software and drug discovery. The software segment is focused on selling our software to transform drug discovery across the life sciences industry, as well as to customers in materials science industries. The drug discovery segment is focused on generating revenue from a diverse portfolio of preclinical and clinical programs, internally and through collaborations, that have advanced to various stages of discovery and development.
Our software segment generates revenue from software product licenses, hosted software subscriptions, software maintenance, professional services, and contributions. The revenue we generate through our software solutions from each of our customers varies largely depending on the number of software licenses our customers purchase from us. The licenses that our customers purchase from us provide them the ability to perform a certain number of calculations used in the design of molecules for drug discovery or materials science. We deliver our software through either (i) a product license that permits our customers to install the software solution directly on their own in-house hardware and use it for a specified term, or (ii) a subscription that allows our customers to access our cloud-based software solution on their own hardware without taking control of licenses.
We currently generate drug discovery revenue from our collaborations, including upfront payments, research funding payments and discovery and development milestones. In the future, we may also derive drug discovery revenue from our collaborations from option fees, the achievement of commercial milestones, and royalties on commercial drug sales. In addition to revenue from our
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collaborations, we may also derive drug discovery revenue from collaborating on or out-licensing our internal drug discovery programs when we believe it will help maximize the commercial potential of the program. In November 2020, we entered into an exclusive, worldwide collaboration and license agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, or BMS, pursuant to which we and BMS agreed to collaborate in the discovery, research and development of small molecule compounds for biological targets in the oncology, neurology and immunology therapeutic areas. The initial collaboration targets included HIF-2 alpha and SOS1/KRAS, which were two of our internal pipeline programs. In November 2021, we and BMS mutually agreed to replace the HIF-2 alpha target with another precision oncology target. Following the replacement election, all rights to the HIF-2 alpha target program reverted to us. Under the terms of the agreement, we received an upfront payment of $55.0 million, and we are eligible to receive up to $2.7 billion in total milestone payments across all potential targets, as well as a tiered percentage royalty on net sales of each product commercialized by BMS ranging from mid-single digits to low-double digits, subject to certain specified reductions. See “Business—Collaboration Agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company” for additional information relating to this agreement.
In August 2021, we entered into a global discovery, development and commercialization collaboration with Zai Lab Limited focused on a novel program in oncology targeting DNA damage response. Under the terms of the agreement, we are entitled to receive an upfront payment to help fund our share of research costs, and if we elect to co-fund clinical development of a product candidate under the collaboration, we will be entitled to receive 50% of any profits from the commercialization of an approved therapeutic in the United States. We are also eligible to receive up to approximately $338 million in preclinical, clinical, regulatory and sales-based milestone payments from Zai Lab Limited for any product candidate developed under the collaboration, and we are entitled to receive tiered royalties on net sales outside the United States.
We generated revenue of $137.9 million, $108.1 million, and $85.5 million in 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively, representing year-over-year growth of 28% and 26%, respectively. Our net loss was $101.2 million, $26.6 million, and $25.7 million for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively.
Business Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic
In order to safeguard the health of our employees in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, in early March 2020 we implemented a company-wide work-from-home policy. Beginning in June 2020, we began limited re-openings of certain of our offices in the United States and abroad. Our re-openings are being conducted on a limited basis and are voluntary for all of our employees. We have continued to phase-in the re-opening of our offices as our management and federal, state, or local authorities advise, and we may take further actions that alter our operations as may be required by federal, state, or local authorities, or which we determine are in our best interests.
We did not see material impacts to our business from the COVID-19 pandemic during 2021. While we do not expect the COVID-19 pandemic to have future material impacts on our business, the full extent of the future impact will depend on many factors outside of our control, including, without limitation, the extent, trajectory and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, the development, availability and distribution of effective treatments and vaccines, the imposition of protective public safety measures, the emergence of new strains and variants of COVID-19 and the effectiveness of vaccines against such strains and variants, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy. For instance, with respect to our software business, some of our customers may experience increasing budgetary pressures as a result of downturns or uncertainty in their respective businesses, which may cause them to delay or reduce purchases. In addition, due to the restrictions related to COVID-19, our sales force has limited in-person interactions, and their ability to attend events that promote and expand knowledge of our company and platform, including industry conferences and events, has been hampered. Relative to our and our collaborators’ drug discovery programs, the COVID-19 pandemic could delay the progress of certain programs, particularly ones that are in preclinical studies and clinical trials. Such COVID-19-related delays may result in disruptions in current and future IND-enabling studies and clinical trials, manufacturing disruptions, trial site disruptions and impact the ability to obtain necessary institutional review board, or IRB, institutional biosafety committee, or IBC, or other necessary site approvals. For example, our contract manufacturing organizations, or CMOs, and our contract research organizations, or CROs, have experienced reductions in the capacity to undertake research-scale production and delays in executing some preclinical studies, including our IND-enabling studies for our CDC7 program. We now expect to submit the IND application to the FDA for our CDC7 program in early 2023 and to initiate a Phase 1 clinical trial in 2023. Such reductions could cause disruptions related to our current and future IND-enabling studies and clinical trials arising from delays in preclinical studies, manufacturing disruptions, and the ability to obtain necessary institutional review board, or IRB, institutional biosafety committee, or IBC, or other necessary site approvals, as well as other delays at clinical trial sites. We, together with our CMOs and CROs, are closely monitoring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on these operations. Furthermore, if our collaborators experience similar delays with their drug discovery and development programs, that could delay our achievement of milestones and related revenue. While there remains uncertainty about the extent of the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, we do not envision a long-term impact from the COVID-19 pandemic on our ability to execute on our strategy.
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Management is actively monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic and its possible effects on our financial condition, liquidity, operations, customers, contractors, and workforce. For additional information on risks posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, please see “Risk Factors – Risks Related to Our Operations – A widespread outbreak of an illness or other health issue, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, could negatively affect various aspects of our business and make it more difficult to meet our obligations to our customers, and could result in reduced demand from our customers as well as delays in our drug discovery and development programs,” included elsewhere in this Annual Report.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have joined a multi-company philanthropic effort to discover and develop novel small-molecule antiviral therapeutics to address COVID-19. The intent of the alliance, which to date also includes Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Novartis AG, Alphabet, Inc., Gilead Sciences, Inc., and WuXi AppTec, Inc., is to make any discoveries from this alliance available to the public. There is no expectation that this effort will generate revenue for any of the companies involved in the alliance, including us.
Key Factors Affecting Our Performance
Ability to drive additional revenue from our software solutions from existing customers
Our large existing base of customers represents a significant opportunity for us to expand our revenue through increased utilization of our software. The revenue that we generate through our software solutions from each of our customers varies depending on the number of licenses for each software solution that each customer purchases from us. Accordingly, we work with our customers to improve their experience and increase the utility of our platform in order to expand the scale at which they deploy our platform in their business. Biopharmaceutical companies are increasingly adopting our software at a larger scale, and we anticipate that this scaling-up will drive future revenue growth. Our ability to expand within our customer base is demonstrated by the increasing number of our customers with an annual contract value, or ACV, of over $100,000. We had 190, 153, and 131 of these customers for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively. This subset of customers represented approximately 80%, 79%, and 78% of our total ACV for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively. In addition, we had 15, 16, and 10 customers with an ACV of over $1.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively.
With respect to contracts that have a duration of one year or less, or contracts of more than one year in duration that are billed annually, we define ACV as the contract value billed during the applicable period. For contracts with a duration of more than one year that are billed upfront, ACV in each period represents the total billed contract value divided by the term. ACV should be viewed independently of revenue and does not represent revenue calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, or U.S. GAAP, on an annualized basis, as it is an operating metric that can be impacted by contract execution start and end dates and renewal rates. ACV is not intended to be a replacement for, or forecast of, revenue. Our ACV was $112.1 million, $92.1 million, and $75.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively.
Another important driver of our ability to expand our customer relationships is the retention of our customers with an ACV over $100,000. For the year ended December 31, 2021, our year-over-year customer retention rate for such customers was 98% and was 96% or higher for each of the previous eight fiscal years. We calculate year-over-year customer retention for our customers with an ACV over $100,000 by starting with the number of such customers we had in the previous fiscal year. We then calculate how many of these customers were active customers in the current fiscal year. We then divide this number by the number of customers with an ACV over $100,000 we had in the previous fiscal year to arrive at the year-over-year customer retention rate for such customers. We intend to leverage our existing relationships with our customers to drive larger-scale adoption of our software solutions. If we are unable to continue to increase revenue from existing customers, our financial performance will be adversely impacted.
Ability to increase our customer base for our software solutions
We believe that we have significant opportunity to continue to increase the number of customers who use our solutions. We had 1,647, 1,463, and 1,266 active customers for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively. We define the number of active customers as the number of customers who had an ACV of at least $1,000 in the fiscal year. We use $1,000 as a threshold for defining our active customers as this amount will generally exclude customers who only license our PyMOL software, which is our open-source molecular visualization system broadly available at low cost.
While we have significantly penetrated the pharmaceutical industry, with all of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies, measured by 2020 revenue, licensing our software in 2021, our strategy is to grow our customer base. We believe there remains a large opportunity for growth as there are thousands of biopharmaceutical companies that could benefit from our solutions. Additionally, since the physics underlying the properties of drug molecules and materials is the same, we have been able to extend our computational platform to materials science applications in fields such as aerospace, energy, semiconductors, and electronic displays.
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We sell our software solutions to a growing number of materials science customers, and we believe materials science industries are only beginning to recognize the potential of computational methods. We continue to promote the education and recognition of our computational platform across industries. As part of our strategy, we have driven the adoption of our software by researchers, and we had more than 1,714 academic institutions across the world using our software in 2021. We believe that by introducing the benefits of our computational software at the academic stage, we will drive brand awareness and expand the use of our platform to industries that have historically relied on traditional methods for discovery of molecules. Our ability to continue to grow our customer base is dependent upon our ability to educate the market and support the business through investment in our sales and marketing efforts and the ongoing enhancement of our software solutions.
Advancement of our collaborations
We have entered into a number of collaborations with various biopharmaceutical companies to advance drug discovery. We will seek to enter into additional collaboration agreements, driven by the synergies we expect to achieve between our platform and the capabilities and expertise of our potential collaborators. We believe that our collaborations will be a significant driver of value for us in the form of equity stakes, research fees, preclinical, clinical, and commercial milestone payments, and option fees, as well as royalties on any potential future sales of products, if approved. We continue to work with our current collaborators to advance existing programs through discovery research stages and initiate additional programs. However, we do not generally exercise control over the development programs of our collaborators and often rely on decisions of the management of such companies with respect to clinical development and commercialization. Our ability to continue to derive value from our collaborations will be driven by both our capability to make progress in these programs as well as whether our collaborators successfully advance such programs beyond the discovery stage.
Ability to develop and expand our internal proprietary drug discovery pipeline
We are advancing our pipeline of internal drug discovery programs through extensive application of our software platform. Our initial programs are focused on discovering and developing inhibitors for targets in DNA damage response pathways and genetically defined cancers. Since then, we have expanded into other therapeutic areas, including in the areas of immunology and neurology. We continue to advance multiple internal programs through investigational new drug, or IND, -enabling studies. We expect to submit an IND application for our MALT1 program in the first half of 2022, and subject to receiving regulatory clearance, we expect to initiate a Phase 1 clinical trial of our MALT1 inhibitor in patients with relapsed and resistant lymphoma in the second half of 2022. We also plan to submit IND applications to the FDA for our CDC7 program in early 2023 and our WEE1 program in 2023, subject to favorable data from IND-enabling studies. In addition, we plan to initiate a Phase 1 clinical trial of our CDC7 inhibitor in 2023, subject to receipt of regulatory clearance. As we progress these programs, we will strategically evaluate on a program-by-program basis entering into preclinical and clinical development ourselves, entering into collaborations, or out-licensing programs to maximize commercial opportunities. As part of this strategy, in November 2020, we entered into an exclusive, worldwide collaboration and license agreement with BMS pursuant to which we and BMS agreed to collaborate in the discovery, research and development of small molecule compounds for biological targets in the oncology, neurology and immunology therapeutic areas. Furthermore, in August 2021, we entered into a global discovery, development and commercialization collaboration with Zai Lab Limited focused on a novel program in oncology targeting DNA damage response. We will need to continue to devote substantial resources to develop and expand our internal pipeline. Our ability to advance and build value in our internal drug discovery programs will impact our financial performance, especially as we increasingly shift our focus to these programs.
Components of Results of Operations
Software Products and Services Revenue
Our software business generates revenue from five sources: (i) on-premise software license fees, (ii) hosted software subscription fees, (iii) software maintenance fees, (iv) professional services fees, and (v) contributions.
On-premise software. Our on-premise software license arrangements grant customers the right to use our software on their own in-house servers or their own cloud instances for a specified term, typically for one year. We recognize revenue for on-premise software license fees upfront, either upon delivery of the license or the effective date of the agreement, whichever is later.
Hosted software. Hosted software revenue consists primarily of fees to provide our customers with hosted licenses, which allows these customers to access our cloud-based software solution on their own hardware without taking control of the licenses, and is recognized ratably over the term of the arrangement, which is typically one year. When a customer enters into a hosted arrangement for which revenue is recognized over time, the amount paid upfront that is not recognized in the current period is included in deferred revenue in our statement of financial position until the period in which it is recognized.
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Software maintenance. Software maintenance includes technical support, updates, and upgrades related to our on-premise software licenses. Software maintenance revenue is recognized ratably over the term of the arrangement. Software maintenance activities are performed in connection with the use of our on-premise software, and may fluctuate from period to period.
Professional services. Professional services, such as training, technical setup, installation or modeling services, where we use our software to perform tasks such as virtual screening and homology modeling on behalf of our customers, generally are not related to the core functionality of our software and are recognized as revenue when resources are consumed. Since each professional services agreement represents a unique, ad hoc engagement, professional services revenue may fluctuate from period to period.
Software contribution revenue. Contribution revenue consists of funds received under a non-reciprocal agreement with Gates Ventures, LLC entered into June 2020. The agreement is an unconditional non-exchange contribution without restrictions and the initial contribution was invoiced upon execution of the agreement. Revenue was recognized upon execution of the agreement and on the first anniversary of the agreement when invoiced, in accordance with Accounting Standard Codification, or ASC Topic 958, Not-for-Profit Entities as the agreement is not an exchange transaction. Additional revenue is expected to be recognized on the second anniversary of the agreement.
Drug Discovery Revenue
Drug discovery services. We currently generate drug discovery revenue from discovery collaboration arrangements, including research funding payments and discovery and development milestones. We expect our drug discovery revenue to trend higher over time as collaboration arrangements advance and we receive additional revenue from research funding payments, the achievement of discovery, development, and commercial milestones, option fees, and royalties on commercial drug sales. The majority of our current collaborations are in the discovery stage. Milestone payments typically increase in magnitude as a program advances. In addition to revenue from our collaborations, we may also derive drug discovery revenue from entering into collaborations or out-licensing our internal drug discovery programs when we believe it will help maximize the commercial potential of the program. For example, in November 2020, we entered into an exclusive, worldwide collaboration and license agreement with BMS, pursuant to which we received an upfront payment of $55.0 million from BMS, of which approximately $13.7 million and $1.0 million were included in our drug discovery revenue for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. However, we expect that our revenue will fluctuate from period to period due to the inherently uncertain nature of the timing of milestone achievement and our dependence on the program decisions of our collaborators.
Drug discovery contribution revenue. Contribution revenue consists of funds received under an agreement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on a cost reimbursement basis, to perform services aimed at accelerating drug discovery in women’s health. Revenue is recognized as conditions are met in accordance with ASC Topic 958, Not-for-Profit Entities.
Cost of Revenues
Software products and services. Cost of revenues for software includes personnel-related expenses (comprised of salaries, benefits, and stock-based compensation) for employees directly involved in the delivery of software solutions, maintenance and professional services, royalties paid for products sold and services performed using third-party licensed software functionality, and allocated overhead (facilities and information technology support) costs. Pursuant to various third-party arrangements, we license technology that is used in our software. These arrangements require us to pay royalties based on sales volume, and such royalty payments represented 7.1%, 6.3%, and 6.7% of software revenues in the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively.
Drug discovery. Costs of revenue for drug discovery includes personnel-related expenses and costs of third-party contract research organizations, or CROs, that support discovery activities in our collaborations, royalties paid for services performed using third-party licensed software functionality, and allocated compute capacity and overhead costs. While we have incurred costs associated with discovery efforts since late 2017, we have recognized and expect to continue to recognize revenues in the future if and when milestones are achieved. Generally, drug discovery costs of revenue for collaborations are incurred in advance of the revenue milestone achievement.
Royalty payments to third-parties represented 4.6%, 11.2%, and 6.7% of drug discovery revenues in the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively. We expect our drug discovery costs of revenue to trend higher over time as our discovery collaborations advance.
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Gross Profit and Gross Margin
Gross profit represents revenue less cost of revenues. Gross margin is gross profit expressed as a percentage of revenue. Our software products and services gross margin may fluctuate from period to period as our revenue fluctuates, and as a result of changes in sales mix between on-premise and hosted software solutions. For example, the cost of royalties due for sales of our hosted software arrangements are recognized upfront, whereas the associated revenue is recognized over the term of the underlying agreement. Currently, gross margin is not meaningful for measuring the operating results of our drug discovery business.
Research and Development Expense
Research and development expense accounts for a significant portion of our operating expenses. We recognize research and development expense as incurred. Research and development expense consists of internal drug discovery and development program costs and costs incurred for continuous development of the technology and science that supports our computational platform, primarily:
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| • | personnel-related expenses, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation for employees engaged in research and development functions; |
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| • | allocated compute capacity on our internal discovery and development programs and overhead (facilities and information technology support) costs. |
We expect our research and development expense to increase substantially in absolute dollars for the foreseeable future as we continue to invest in activities related to discovery and development of our internal drug discovery programs, in advancing our platform, and as we incur expenses associated with hiring additional personnel directly involved in such efforts. At this time, we do not know, nor can we reasonably estimate, the nature, timing, or costs of the efforts that will be necessary to complete the development of any of our internal drug discovery programs. Since our internal drug discovery efforts are in the early stages, currently we do not track research and development expense on a program-by-program basis.
Sales and Marketing Expense
Sales and marketing expense consists primarily of personnel-related costs for our sales and marketing staff and application scientists supporting our sales efforts, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation. Other sales and marketing costs include promotional events that promote and expand knowledge of our company and platform, including industry conferences and events and our annual user group meetings in the United States and Europe, advertising, and allocated overhead costs. Due to the inherent scientific complexity of our software solutions, a high level of scientific expertise is needed to support our sales and marketing efforts. We plan to make focused investments in sales and marketing over the foreseeable future to foster the growth of our business as we aim to expand software sales to existing customers and increase our customer base.
General and Administrative Expense
General and administrative expense consists of personnel-related expenses associated with our executive, legal, finance, human resources, information technology, and other administrative functions, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation. General and administrative expense also includes professional fees for external legal, accounting and other consulting services, allocated overhead costs, and other general operating expenses.
We expect to increase the size of our general and administrative staff to support the anticipated growth of our business. We expect to continue to incur additional expenses as a result of operating as a public company, including costs to comply with the rules and regulations applicable to companies listed on a U.S. securities exchange and costs related to compliance and reporting obligations pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. In addition, as a public company, we expect to continue to incur increased expenses such as insurance and professional services. As a result, we expect the dollar amount of our general and administrative expense to increase for the foreseeable future.
(Loss) Gain on Equity Investments
(Loss) gain on equity investments consists of realized gains in the form of cash distributions received from our equity investments offset by realized losses on the sale of equity.
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Change in Fair Value
Fair value gains and losses consist of adjustments to the fair value of our equity investments, including Nimbus Therapeutics, Inc., or Nimbus, ShouTi Inc., or ShouTi, Relay Therapeutics, Inc., or Relay, and Morphic Holding, Inc., or Morphic. We remeasure our investments at each period end.
In January 2021, we disposed of our equity stake in Relay for aggregate consideration of $15.7 million.
We expect that fair value gains and losses will fluctuate significantly in future periods.
Interest Income
Interest income consists of interest earned on our cash equivalents and marketable securities.
Income Tax Expense (Benefit)
Income tax expense (benefit) consists of U.S. federal and state income taxes and income taxes in certain foreign jurisdictions in which we conduct business. We maintain a full valuation allowance on our federal and state deferred tax assets as we have concluded that it is not more likely than not that the deferred tax assets will be realized.
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Results of Operations
Comparison of the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019
The following table summarizes our results of operations data for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019:
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| Software products and services | $ | 113,236 | $ | 92,530 | $ | 20,706 | 22% | $ | 66,735 | $ | 25,795 | 39% | |||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | 24,695 | 15,565 | 9,130 | 59% | 18,808 | (3,243 | ) | -17% | |||||||||||||||||
| Total revenues | 137,931 | 108,095 | 29,836 | 28% | 85,543 | 22,552 | 26% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of revenues: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services | 26,495 | 18,003 | 8,492 | 47% | 13,646 | 4,357 | 32% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | 45,816 | 26,620 | 19,196 | 72% | 22,804 | 3,816 | 17% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Total cost of revenues | 72,311 | 44,623 | 27,688 | 62% | 36,450 | 8,173 | 22% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Gross profit | 65,620 | 63,472 | 2,148 | 3% | 49,093 | 14,379 | 29% | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Research and development | 90,904 | 64,695 | 26,209 | 41% | 39,404 | 25,291 | 64% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | 22,150 | 17,795 | 4,355 | 24% | 21,364 | (3,569 | ) | -17% | |||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | 64,009 | 41,898 | 22,111 | 53% | 27,040 | 14,858 | 55% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Total operating expenses | 177,063 | 124,388 | 52,675 | 42% | 87,808 | 36,580 | 42% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Loss from operations | (111,443 | ) | (60,916 | ) | (50,527 | ) | 83% | (38,715 | ) | (22,201 | ) | 57% | |||||||||||||
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| (Loss) gain on equity investments | (1,781 | ) | 4,108 | (5,889 | ) | 943 | 3,165 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Change in fair value | 11,359 | 28,263 | (16,904 | ) | 9,922 | 18,341 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Interest income | 1,057 | 2,253 | (1,196 | ) | 1,878 | 375 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total other income | 10,635 | 34,624 | (23,989 | ) | 12,743 | 21,881 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Loss before income taxes | (100,808 | ) | (26,292 | ) | (74,516 | ) | (25,972 | ) | (320 | ) | |||||||||||||||
| Income tax expense (benefit) | 411 | 345 | 66 | (291 | ) | 636 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | (101,219 | ) | (26,637 | ) | (74,582 | ) | (25,681 | ) | (956 | ) | |||||||||||||||
| Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest | (826 | ) | (2,174 | ) | 1,348 | (1,110 | ) | (1,064 | ) | ||||||||||||||||
| Net loss attributable to Schrödinger stockholders | $ | (100,393 | ) | $ | (24,463 | ) | $ | (75,930 | ) | $ | (24,571 | ) | $ | 108 |
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| On-premise software | $ | 74,598 | $ | 58,311 | $ | 16,287 | 28% | $ | 42,647 | $ | 15,664 | 37% | |||||||||||||||
| Hosted software | 11,076 | 9,192 | 1,884 | 20% | 7,418 | 1,774 | 24% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Software maintenance | 17,294 | 14,465 | 2,829 | 20% | 11,643 | 2,822 | 24% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Professional services | 9,268 | 9,562 | (294 | ) | -3% | 5,027 | 4,535 | 90% | |||||||||||||||||||
| Software contribution | 1,000 | 1,000 | — | 0% | — | 1,000 | — | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total software products and services | 113,236 | 92,530 | 20,706 | 22% | 66,735 | 25,795 | 39% | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Drug discovery services | 24,584 | 15,565 | 9,019 | 58% | 18,808 | (3,243 | ) | -17% | |||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery contribution | 111 | - | 111 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total drug discovery | 24,695 | 15,565 | 9,130 | 59% | 18,808 | (3,243 | ) | -17% | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total revenues | $ | 137,931 | $ | 108,095 | $ | 29,836 | 28% | $ | 85,543 | $ | 22,552 | 26% |
Software Products and Services Revenue
On-premise software. The increase in revenues for on-premise software was primarily attributable to existing and new customer growth, and an increase in multi-year arrangements during the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020 and during the year ended December 31, 2020 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2019.
Hosted software. The increase in revenues for hosted software was primarily due to increased spend from existing hosted customers, as well as new customers purchasing hosted software subscriptions, for which revenue is recognized ratably over time.
Software maintenance. The increase in revenues for software maintenance was primarily due to the increase in on-premise software sales in current and previous years. Software maintenance revenue is recognized over time.
Professional services. The decrease in revenues from professional services during the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020 was primarily due to the completion of a significant technology service project in 2020 that resulted in an increase to recurring on-premise software revenue upon renewal, as well as the timing of technology and modeling service projects.
The increase in revenues from professional services during the year ended December 31, 2020 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2019 was primarily due to revenue from significant technology service projects that began in late 2019, as well as an increased number of modeling service contracts.
Software contribution revenue. Contribution revenue during the year ended December 31, 2021 and the year ended December 31, 2020 was due to funds received under an agreement with Gates Ventures, LLC, which began in June 2020.
Drug Discovery Revenue
Drug discovery services. The increase in revenues for drug discovery services during the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020 was primarily due to the BMS collaboration services that began in November 2020, the timing and amount of collaboration milestones achieved, as well as research funding received during 2021 as compared to 2020. We expect that our revenue will fluctuate from period to period due to the inherently uncertain nature of the timing of milestone achievement and our dependence on the program decisions of our collaborators.
The decrease in revenues for drug discovery services during the year ended December 31, 2020 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2019 was primarily due to the timing and amount of collaboration milestones achieved during 2020 as compared to 2019.
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Drug discovery contribution revenue. Contribution revenue during the year ended December 31, 2021 was due to services performed under an agreement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, aimed at accelerating drug discovery in women’s health, which began in November 2021.
Cost of Revenues
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| Software products and services | $ | 26,495 | $ | 18,003 | $ | 8,492 | 47% | $ | 13,646 | $ | 4,357 | 32% | |||||||||||||
| Gross margin | 77 | % | 81 | % | 80 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | 45,816 | 26,620 | 19,196 | 72% | 22,804 | 3,816 | 17% |
Software products and services. The increase in cost of revenues for software products and services during the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020 was attributable to increases of approximately $5.5 million in personnel-related expense, approximately $2.3 million in royalty expense due to higher sales levels, and approximately $0.7 million in other expenses.
The increase in cost of revenues for software products and services during the year ended December 31, 2020 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2019 was attributable to increases of approximately $2.6 million in personnel-related expense, approximately $1.5 million in royalty expense due to higher sales levels, and approximately $0.4 million in other expenses, offset by a decrease of approximately $0.2 million in travel and entertainment expense due to COVID-19.
Software products and services gross margin. The decrease in software gross margin during the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020 reflects our investment to support the rollout of large-scale deployments of our platform, as well as an increase in royalty fees. The increase in software gross margin during the year ended December 31, 2020 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2019 was primarily attributable to sales mix.
Drug discovery. The increase in cost of revenues for drug discovery during the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020 was attributable to increases of approximately $12.6 million in third-party CRO costs associated with the expansion and progression of collaboration drug discovery programs, including the BMS collaboration, approximately $6.7 million in personnel-related expense, and approximately $0.3 million in royalty expense, offset by a decrease of approximately $0.3 million in cloud computing expenses and approximately $0.1 million in other expenses.
The increase in cost of revenues for drug discovery during the year ended December 31, 2020 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2019 was attributable to increases of approximately $3.3 million in personnel-related expense, approximately $0.7 million in cloud computing expenses, and approximately $0.4 million in royalty expense, offset by a decrease of approximately $0.6 million in third-party CRO costs to support collaborations.
Research and Development Expense
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| 2021 vs. 2020 | 2020 vs. 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2020 | Change | % | 2019 | Change | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Research and development | $ | 90,904 | $ | 64,695 | $ | 26,209 | 41% | $ | 39,404 | $ | 25,291 | 64% |
The increase in research and development expense during the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020 was attributable to increases of approximately $16.3 million in personnel-related expense, approximately $6.0 million in CRO costs associated with the expansion and progression of internal drug discovery programs, approximately $3.0 million in cloud computing expenses, and approximately $0.9 million in other expenses.
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The increase in research and development expense during the year ended December 31, 2020 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2019 was attributable to increases of approximately $11.7 million in personnel-related expense, approximately $10.1 million in CRO costs associated with the expansion and progression of internal drug discovery programs, approximately $2.3 million in cloud computing expenses, and approximately $1.1 million in other expenses.
Sales and Marketing Expense
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| 2021 vs. 2020 | 2020 vs. 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2020 | Change | % | 2019 | Change | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | $ | 22,150 | $ | 17,795 | $ | 4,355 | 24% | $ | 21,364 | $ | (3,569 | ) | -17% |
The increase in sales and marketing expense during the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020 was attributable to increases of approximately $3.6 million in personnel-related expense, approximately $0.4 million in travel and entertainment expenses, and approximately $0.4 million in other expenses.
The decrease in sales and marketing expense during the year ended December 31, 2020 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2019 was attributable to a decrease of approximately $2.7 million in personnel-related expense and a decrease of approximately $1.2 million in travel and entertainment expenses due to COVID-19, partially offset by an increase of $0.3 million in other expenses.
General and Administrative Expense
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| 2021 vs. 2020 | 2020 vs. 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2020 | Change | % | 2019 | Change | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | $ | 64,009 | $ | 41,898 | $ | 22,111 | 53% | $ | 27,040 | $ | 14,858 | 55% |
The increase in general and administrative expense during the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020 was attributable to increases of approximately $16.5 million of personnel-related expense, approximately $5.1 million in other expenses, primarily reflecting costs necessary to build and maintain a public company infrastructure, and approximately $0.5 million in non-comparable costs related to the disposal of our equity stake in Relay.
The increase in general and administrative expense during the year ended December 31, 2020 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2019 was attributable to an increase of approximately $10.5 million of personnel-related expense, and an increase of approximately $7.5 million in other expenses, primarily reflecting costs necessary to build a public company infrastructure, partially offset by a $3.3 million reduction for non-comparable items recognized during 2019.
(Loss) Gain on Equity Investments
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| 2021 vs. 2020 | 2020 vs. 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2020 | Change | 2019 | Change | |||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||||||||
| (Loss) gain on equity investments | $ | (1,781 | ) | $ | 4,108 | $ | (5,889 | ) | $ | 943 | $ | 3,165 |
The loss on equity investments during the year ended December 31, 2021 was primarily due to the realized loss on the disposal of our equity stake in Relay. The gain on equity investments during the year ended December 31, 2020 represents realized gains in the form of a cash distribution received from the Petra Pharma Corporation, or Petra, merger in May 2020 on account of our equity stake in Petra. The gain on equity investments during the year ended December 31, 2019 represents realized gains in the form of a cash distribution received from our Nimbus investment.
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Change in Fair Value
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| 2021 vs. 2020 | 2020 vs. 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2020 | Change | 2019 | Change | |||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Change in fair value | $ | 11,359 | $ | 28,263 | $ | (16,904 | ) | $ | 9,922 | $ | 18,341 |
The change in fair value during the year ended December 31, 2021 was primarily due to a gain on our investment in Morphic. The change in fair value during the year ended December 31, 2020 was due to a gain on our investment in Relay of $17.6 million and a gain on our investment in Morphic of $13.7 million, offset by a loss on our investment in Nimbus of $3.0 million. The change in fair value during the year ended December 31, 2019 was due to a $14.1 million gain on our investment in Morphic, offset by a $4.2 million loss on our investment in Nimbus.
Interest Income
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| 2021 vs. 2020 | 2020 vs. 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2020 | Change | 2019 | Change | |||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Interest income | $ | 1,057 | $ | 2,253 | $ | (1,196 | ) | $ | 1,878 | $ | 375 |
The decrease in interest income during the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020 was attributable to an overall decline in interest rates on our investment portfolio.
The increase in interest income during the year ended December 31, 2020 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2019 was attributable to increased earnings on our investment portfolio balance, which increased significantly year-over-year due to the investment of proceeds from our initial public offering in February 2020 and our follow-on public offering in August 2020, partially offset by a significant reduction in interest rates year-over-year.
Income Tax Expense (Benefit)
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| 2021 vs. 2020 | 2020 vs. 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2020 | Change | 2019 | Change | |||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Income tax expense (benefit) | $ | 411 | $ | 345 | $ | 66 | $ | (291 | ) | $ | 636 |
Due to the full valuation allowance on our U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets, income tax expense (benefit) represents our income tax obligations in certain states and taxes in foreign jurisdictions in which we conduct business. The income tax benefit during the year ended December 31, 2019 is due to alternative minimum tax credits previously utilized that are refundable under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
At December 31, 2021, we had federal and state net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $283.3 million and $148.1 million, respectively. These carryforwards, with the exception of federal net operating losses generated post 2017, will expire between 2022 and 2041 if not used by us to reduce income taxes payable in future periods. Utilization of post-2017 federal net operating loss carryforwards is limited to 80% of taxable income generated in a given tax year and carry forward indefinitely. At December 31, 2021, we had federal and state research and development tax credit carryforwards of approximately $15.5 million and $1.0 million, respectively. These carryforwards will expire between 2022 and 2041 if not used by us to reduce income taxes payable in future periods.
As required by ASC Topic 740, Income Taxes, our management has evaluated the positive and negative evidence bearing upon the realizability of our deferred tax assets, which are composed principally of net operating loss carryforwards and research and development credit carryforwards. Management has determined that it is more likely than not that we will not realize the benefits of our federal and state deferred tax assets and, as a result, a valuation allowance of $95.3 million, $58.2 million, and $35.3 million has been established at December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively. The change in the valuation allowance for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019 was $37.1 million, $22.9 million, and $7.7 million, respectively. We recorded income tax
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expense of $0.4 million and $0.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. We recorded an income tax benefit of $0.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2019.
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Quarterly Results of Operations
The following tables summarize our selected unaudited quarterly results of operations data for each of the eight quarters in the period ended December 31, 2021. The information for each of these quarters has been prepared on the same basis as our audited annual consolidated financial statements and reflect, in the opinion of management, all adjustments of a normal, recurring nature that are necessary for the fair statement of the results of operations for these periods. This data should be read in conjunction with our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report. Historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full fiscal year or any other period.
| Three Months Ended | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services | $ | 38,564 | $ | 24,280 | $ | 24,052 | $ | 26,340 | $ | 24,957 | $ | 22,861 | $ | 20,900 | $ | 23,812 | ||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | 7,606 | 5,570 | 5,732 | 5,787 | 8,075 | 2,936 | 2,192 | 2,362 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total revenues | 46,170 | 29,850 | 29,784 | 32,127 | 33,032 | 25,797 | 23,092 | 26,174 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services(1) | 8,337 | 6,611 | 5,641 | 5,906 | 5,806 | 4,334 | 3,862 | 4,001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery(1) | 11,472 | 12,124 | 12,163 | 10,057 | 8,234 | 6,191 | 5,647 | 6,548 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total cost of revenues | 19,809 | 18,735 | 17,804 | 15,963 | 14,040 | 10,525 | 9,509 | 10,549 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gross profit | 26,361 | 11,115 | 11,980 | 16,164 | 18,992 | 15,272 | 13,583 | 15,625 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating expenses: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Research and development(1) | 25,145 | 23,219 | 21,092 | 21,448 | 17,319 | 17,019 | 16,657 | 13,700 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing(1) | 5,975 | 5,556 | 5,380 | 5,239 | 4,675 | 3,969 | 4,362 | 4,789 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative(1) | 17,756 | 17,014 | 15,850 | 13,389 | 13,582 | 9,729 | 9,651 | 8,936 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total operating expenses | 48,876 | 45,789 | 42,322 | 40,076 | 35,576 | 30,717 | 30,670 | 27,425 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loss from operations | (22,515 | ) | (34,674 | ) | (30,342 | ) | (23,912 | ) | (16,584 | ) | (15,445 | ) | (17,087 | ) | (11,800 | ) | ||||||||||||||||
| Other (expense) income: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Loss) gain on equity investment | — | — | — | (1,781 | ) | (48 | ) | — | 4,156 | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Change in fair value | (7,920 | ) | (627 | ) | (4,918 | ) | 24,824 | 4,750 | 18,233 | 8,359 | (3,079 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest (expense) income | (6 | ) | 286 | 357 | 420 | 521 | 463 | 570 | 699 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total other (expense) income | (7,926 | ) | (341 | ) | (4,561 | ) | 23,463 | 5,223 | 18,696 | 13,085 | (2,380 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| (Loss) income before income taxes | (30,441 | ) | (35,015 | ) | (34,903 | ) | (449 | ) | (11,361 | ) | 3,251 | (4,002 | ) | (14,180 | ) | |||||||||||||||||
| Income tax expense (benefit) | 274 | (4 | ) | 67 | 74 | 225 | (35 | ) | 64 | 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net (loss) income | (30,715 | ) | (35,011 | ) | (34,970 | ) | (523 | ) | (11,586 | ) | 3,286 | (4,066 | ) | (14,271 | ) | |||||||||||||||||
| Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest | (2 | ) | (4 | ) | (326 | ) | (494 | ) | (447 | ) | (566 | ) | (716 | ) | (445 | ) | ||||||||||||||||
| Net (loss) income attributable to Schrodinger stockholders | $ | (30,713 | ) | $ | (35,007 | ) | $ | (34,644 | ) | $ | (29 | ) | $ | (11,139 | ) | $ | 3,852 | $ | (3,350 | ) | $ | (13,826 | ) |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
|---|---|---|
| (1) | Includes stock-based compensation as indicated in the table located further below. |
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Revenues:
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenues: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| On-premise software | $ | 27,295 | $ | 15,496 | $ | 14,452 | $ | 17,355 | $ | 16,542 | $ | 15,064 | $ | 11,105 | $ | 15,600 | |||||||||||||||
| Hosted software | 3,088 | 2,684 | 2,704 | 2,600 | 2,373 | 2,374 | 2,312 | 2,133 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software maintenance | 4,612 | 4,401 | 4,176 | 4,105 | 3,841 | 3,536 | 3,551 | 3,537 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Professional services | 3,569 | 1,699 | 1,720 | 2,280 | 2,201 | 1,887 | 2,932 | 2,542 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenue from contracts with customers | 38,564 | 24,280 | 23,052 | 26,340 | 24,957 | 22,861 | 19,900 | 23,812 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software contribution | - | - | 1,000 | - | - | - | 1,000 | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total software products and services revenue | 38,564 | 24,280 | 24,052 | 26,340 | 24,957 | 22,861 | 20,900 | 23,812 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery services | 7,495 | 5,570 | 5,732 | 5,787 | 8,075 | 2,936 | 2,192 | 2,362 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery contribution | 111 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total drug discovery | 7,606 | 5,570 | 5,732 | 5,787 | 8,075 | 2,936 | 2,192 | 2,362 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total revenues | $ | 46,170 | $ | 29,850 | $ | 29,784 | $ | 32,127 | $ | 33,032 | $ | 25,797 | $ | 23,092 | $ | 26,174 |
Deferred Revenue:
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deferred revenue | $ | 85,432 | $ | 76,318 | $ | 78,526 | $ | 78,115 | $ | 86,567 | $ | 21,659 | $ | 25,117 | $ | 23,835 |
Gross Margin:
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services gross margin | 78 | % | 73 | % | 77 | % | 78 | % | 77 | % | 81 | % | 82 | % | 83 | % |
Stock-Based Compensation:
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of revenues: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services | $ | 389 | $ | 396 | $ | 382 | $ | 229 | $ | 152 | $ | 169 | $ | 124 | $ | 85 | |||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | 626 | 669 | 738 | 428 | 276 | 230 | 181 | 168 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Research and development | 2,157 | 2,130 | 1,925 | 1,228 | 863 | 857 | 822 | 508 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | 331 | 370 | 362 | 218 | 141 | 165 | 116 | 93 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | 3,953 | 4,087 | 3,609 | 2,263 | 1,571 | 1,617 | 1,486 | 921 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total stock-based compensation expense | $ | 7,456 | $ | 7,652 | $ | 7,016 | $ | 4,366 | $ | 3,003 | $ | 3,038 | $ | 2,729 | $ | 1,775 |
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Depreciation:
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| December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | December 31, | September 30, | June 30, | March 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Depreciation: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of revenues: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software products and services | $ | 61 | $ | 56 | $ | 68 | $ | 86 | $ | 67 | $ | 62 | $ | 48 | $ | 43 | |||||||||||||||
| Drug discovery | 82 | 106 | 167 | 232 | 226 | 213 | 205 | 193 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Research and development | 212 | 163 | 195 | 247 | 222 | 212 | 200 | 176 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | 65 | 59 | 57 | 66 | 39 | 30 | 39 | 34 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | 232 | 197 | 240 | 256 | 457 | 372 | 388 | 432 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total depreciation expense | $ | 652 | $ | 581 | $ | 727 | $ | 887 | $ | 1,011 | $ | 889 | $ | 880 | $ | 878 |
Quarterly Revenue Trends
On-premise software revenue is subject to seasonality that generally favors the first and fourth quarter of each year, primarily due to the timing of customer renewals for on-premise software arrangements, for which revenue is recognized at a single point in time. Hosted software revenue grew more steadily in the periods presented, as existing customers and new customers increased their spend on hosted solutions, for which revenue is recognized over time. As a result, a portion of the software products and services revenue we reported in each period was attributable to sales we made in prior periods. Software maintenance revenue is related to on-premise software sales and also is recognized ratably over the term of the underlying agreement. Therefore, increases or decreases in customer sales, customer expansion, or renewals in a period may not be immediately reflected in revenue for the period. Our professional services arrangements are typically project-based and, therefore, fluctuated based on individual customer needs and ongoing project support. Drug discovery revenue fluctuated from period to period based on the achievement of specific collaboration milestones, including advancement of BMS collaborative services. The majority of our current collaborations are in the discovery stage. Milestone payments typically increase in magnitude as a program advances.
Quarterly Deferred Revenue Trends
Deferred revenue consists of the unearned portion of customer billings, which is recognized as revenue in accordance with our revenue recognition policy, as well as the unearned portion of unbilled collaboration milestones that are deemed probable in advance of actual achievement. Deferred revenue balances have fluctuated based on the timing of sales, shifts in product mix, fluctuations to the number and size of milestones that were deemed probable in advance of actual achievement, and the measurement of progress toward completion for service projects.
Quarterly Gross Margin Trends
Our software products and services gross margin experienced fluctuations over the periods presented due to increased headcount and the product mix for software and services, as the cost of royalties due on sales of our hosted software is recognized upfront, while the associated revenue is recognized over the term of the related agreement. Currently, gross margin is not meaningful for measuring the operating results of our drug discovery business.
Quarterly Operating Expense Trends
Operating expenses generally increased during the periods presented due to increased headcount and personnel-related expenses involved in research and development, sales and marketing, general and administrative activities, and CRO costs related to our internal drug discovery programs. These increases in headcount across our operations have supported the overall growth and management of our business. CRO cost increases were driven by the expansion and progression of our internal drug discovery programs.
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Quarterly Other (Expense) Income Trends
Other (expense) income during the periods presented consisted primarily of fair value gains and losses related to our equity investments in Nimbus, Morphic, ShouTi and Relay, a loss on the disposal of our equity stake in Relay, a gain from the Petra merger, and, to a lesser degree, interest income.
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Segment Information
The following tables summarize segment information for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019. See Note 15 in our audited consolidated financial statements for additional information regarding our segments.
Segment gross profit is derived by deducting operational expenditures, with the exception of research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administrative activities, from U.S. GAAP revenue. Operational expenditures are expenditures made that are directly attributable to the reportable segment. In many cases, these expenditures are allocated to the segments based on headcount. The reportable segment expenditures include compensation, supplies, and services from contract research organizations.
Certain cost items are not allocated to our reportable segments. These cost items primarily consist of compensation and general operational expenses associated with our research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administrative activities. These costs are incurred by both segments and, due to the integrated nature of our software and drug discovery segments, any allocation methodology would be arbitrary and provide no meaningful analysis. Additionally, we report assets on a consolidated basis and do not allocate assets to our reportable segments for purposes of assessing segment performance or allocating resources.
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| 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||||||
| Segment revenues: | ||||||||||||
| Software | $ | 113,236 | $ | 92,530 | $ | 66,735 | ||||||
| Drug discovery | 24,695 | 15,565 | 18,808 | |||||||||
| Total segment revenues | $ | 137,931 | $ | 108,095 | $ | 85,543 | ||||||
| Segment gross profit: | ||||||||||||
| Software | $ | 86,741 | $ | 74,527 | $ | 53,089 | ||||||
| Drug discovery | (21,121 | ) | (11,055 | ) | (3,996 | ) | ||||||
| Total segment gross profit | 65,620 | 63,472 | 49,093 | |||||||||
| Unallocated (expense) income: | ||||||||||||
| Research and development | (90,904 | ) | (64,695 | ) | (39,404 | ) | ||||||
| Sales and marketing | (22,150 | ) | (17,795 | ) | (21,364 | ) | ||||||
| General and administrative | (64,009 | ) | (41,898 | ) | (27,040 | ) | ||||||
| (Loss) gain on equity investment | (1,781 | ) | 4,108 | 943 | ||||||||
| Change in fair value | 11,359 | 28,263 | 9,922 | |||||||||
| Interest | 1,057 | 2,253 | 1,878 | |||||||||
| Income taxes | (411 | ) | (345 | ) | 291 | |||||||
| Consolidated net loss | $ | (101,219 | ) | $ | (26,637 | ) | $ | (25,681 | ) |
Liquidity, Capital Resources and Funding Requirements
We have a history of significant operating losses, and incurred negative cash flows from operations since inception through December 31, 2019, and again in the year ended December 31, 2021. As of December 31, 2021, we had an accumulated deficit of $230.0 million.
We have funded our operations to date principally from the sale our equity securities, including our initial public offering and our follow-on public offering, and to a lesser extent, from sales of our software solutions and from upfront payments, research funding and milestone payments from our drug discovery collaborations, and from distributions on account of, or proceeds from the sale of, our equity stakes in our collaborators. Our operating cash flows are impacted by the magnitude and timing of our software sales and by the magnitude and timing of our drug discovery milestone achievements and research funding fees.
As of December 31, 2021, we had cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $579.5 million.
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On February 10, 2020, we closed our initial public offering of our common stock, in which we sold 13,664,704 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $17.00 per share, resulting in net proceeds to us of $209.6 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses borne by us.
On August 17, 2020, we closed a follow-on public offering, in which we sold 5,250,000 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $66.00 per share, resulting in net proceeds to us of $325.6 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses borne by us.
On March 4, 2021, we filed a universal shelf registration statement on Form S-3 which allows us to offer and sell an indeterminate number of shares of common stock, preferred stock, depositary shares or warrants, or an indeterminate principal amount of debt securities, from time to time pursuant to one or more offerings at prices and terms to be determined at the time of the sale. As of December 31, 2021, no securities had been sold under the Form S-3.
We believe our existing cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities will be sufficient to fund our operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements through at least the next 24 months. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including the growth of our software revenue, the timing and extent of spending to support research and development efforts, the continued expansion of software sales and marketing activities, the timing and receipt of milestone payments from our collaborations, as well as spending to support, advance, and broaden our internal programs. Furthermore, our capital requirements will also change depending on the timing and receipt of any distributions we may receive from our equity stakes in our drug discovery collaborators and partners. The potential for these distributions, and the amounts which we may be entitled to receive, are difficult to predict due to the inherent uncertainty of the events which may trigger such distributions.
We plan to utilize the existing cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities on hand primarily to fund our software and drug discovery activities. With respect to our internal programs, as part of our strategy we may choose to enter into collaborations or pursue out-licensing arrangements when we believe it will help maximize the commercial value of any such program.
We may be required to seek additional equity or debt financing. In the event that we require additional financing, we may not be able to raise such financing on terms acceptable to us or at all. If we are unable to raise additional capital or generate cash flows necessary to maintain or expand our operations and invest in our platform, we may not be able to compete successfully, which would harm our business, operations and financial condition. In addition, we may seek additional capital due to favorable market conditions or strategic considerations, even if we believe we have sufficient funds for our current or future operating plans.
Our contractual obligations as of December 31, 2021 include operating lease obligations of $132.2 million, consisting of our continuing rent obligations through December 2037, primarily for our principal offices located in New York, New York and Portland, Oregon, which expire in December 2037 and September 2026, respectively. In addition, see Note 6 – Commitments and Contingencies to our consolidated financial statements appearing in Item 8 of this Annual Report for information relating to executed leases that have not yet commenced.
In December 2020, we entered into a five-year agreement with a third-party cloud provider for compute power. The agreement contains a minimum payment obligation, which totals $60 million over the five years after the date we entered into the agreement. There is no annual commitment.
We enter into agreements in the normal course of business with CRO vendors for research and preclinical studies, professional consultants for expert advice, and other vendors for various products and services. These contracts do not contain any minimum purchase commitments and are cancelable at any time by us, generally upon 30 days prior written notice, and therefore we believe that our non-cancelable obligations under these agreements are not material. We have also agreed to pay volume-based royalties to third-parties for use of software functionality under various licensing and related agreements.
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Cash Flows
The following table presents a summary of our cash flows for the periods shown:
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| Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities | $ | (70,669 | ) | $ | 16,757 | $ | (26,059 | ) | ||||
| Net cash used in investing activities | (16,812 | ) | (381,721 | ) | (53,855 | ) | ||||||
| Net cash provided by financing activities | 7,952 | 541,274 | 28,684 | |||||||||
| Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash | $ | (79,529 | ) | $ | 176,310 | $ | (51,230 | ) |
Operating activities
During the year ended December 31, 2021, operating activities used approximately $70.7 million in cash primarily resulting from net loss of $101.2 million, which included an $11.4 million non-cash gain from changes in fair value, $26.5 million in stock-based compensation costs and $9.0 million of other non-cash operating expenses included in net loss, including depreciation and investment accretion costs, and a $1.8 million loss on equity investment that is classified as an investing activity. Changes in our operating assets and liabilities provided cash of approximately $4.7 million.
During the year ended December 31, 2020, operating activities provided approximately $16.8 million of cash. Cash provided by operating activities increased primarily from changes in our operating assets and liabilities, which provided cash of approximately $59.2 million primarily due to an increase of $59.7 million in deferred revenue, of which approximately $54.0 million is related to our agreement with BMS, and $12.5 million of non-cash operating expenses included in net loss, including depreciation and stock-based compensation costs. These increases are partially offset by our net loss of $26.6 million and $28.3 million non-cash gain from changes in fair value.
During the year ended December 31, 2019, operating activities used approximately $26.1 million of cash, primarily resulting from net loss of $25.7 million, which included a $9.9 million non-cash gain from changes in fair value and a $0.9 million gain on equity investment that is classified as an investing activity, partially offset by $6.2 million of non-cash operating expenses included in net loss, including depreciation and stock-based compensation costs. Changes in our operating assets and liabilities provided cash of approximately $4.2 million.
Investing activities
During the year ended December 31, 2021, investing activities used approximately $16.8 million of cash, consisting of $22.1 million used for purchases of marketable securities, net of maturities, $7.2 million used for purchases of property and equipment and $3.7 million used to make equity investments in Ajax Therapeutics, Inc. and ShouTi, partially offset by $15.7 million provided by the sale of our equity stake in Relay and $0.4 million provided by the distribution of funds from Petra in connection with the Petra merger.
During the year ended December 31, 2020, investing activities used approximately $381.7 million of cash, primarily for purchases of marketable securities.
During the year ended December 31, 2019, investing activities used approximately $53.9 million of cash, primarily for purchases of marketable securities.
Financing activities
During the year ended December 31, 2021, financing activities provided approximately $8.0 million of cash, primarily attributable to proceeds from stock option exercises.
During the year ended December 31, 2020, financing activities provided approximately $541.3 million of cash, primarily attributable to proceeds from issuances of our common stock in our initial public and follow-on offerings.
During the year ended December 31, 2019, financing activities provided approximately $28.7 million of cash, primarily attributable to proceeds from issuances of our Series E preferred stock.
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Seasonality
Generally, the first and fourth quarter of each year have typically been our largest quarters for software products and services revenue, primarily due to the timing of customer renewals of on-premise software arrangements, for which revenue is recognized at a single point in time. Seasonality has been a less significant factor for our hosted software arrangements, for which revenue is recognized ratably over time. Seasonality has not been a factor for our drug discovery revenues. Historical seasonality may not be indicative of future periods.
Critical Accounting Policies and Significant Judgments and Critical Accounting Estimates
Critical accounting policies are those that are both most important to the portrayal of a company's financial condition and results, and that require management's most difficult, subjective, and complex judgments, often as a result of the need to make estimates about the effect of matters that are inherently uncertain. Our management’s discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations is based on our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of these consolidated financial statements requires us to make judgments and estimates that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities in our consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes. We base our estimates on historical experience, known trends and events, and our beliefs of what could occur in the future considering available information. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our judgments and estimates in light of changes in circumstances, facts, and experience. The effects of material revisions in estimates, if any, are reflected in the consolidated financial statements prospectively from the date of change in estimates.
While our significant accounting policies are described in more detail in Note 2 – Significant Accounting Policies to our consolidated financial statements appearing in Item 8 of this Annual Report, we believe the following critical accounting estimates used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements require the most difficult, subjective and complex judgments and estimates and have had, or are reasonably likely to have a material impact on our financial condition or results of operations.
Revenue
We recognize revenue in accordance with ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, except for contracts that are within the scope of other standards, such as contribution grants and collaboration arrangements. In accordance with ASC 606, we recognize revenue when our customer obtains control of promised goods or services, in an amount that reflects the consideration which we expect to receive in exchange for those goods or services. To determine revenue recognition for arrangements that we determine are within the scope of ASC 606, we perform the following five steps: (i) identify the contract(s) with a customer; (ii) identify the performance obligations in the contract; (iii) determine the transaction price; (iv) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; and (v) recognize revenue when or as we satisfy a performance obligation.
Significant management judgment is applied to determine the allocation of the transaction price and measurement of progress, including (1) the constraint on variable consideration, (2) the allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations using their standalone selling price, or SSP, basis, and (3) the appropriate input or output based method to recognize collaboration revenue and the extent of progress to date.
Variable consideration: Our revenue may include upfront payments for the performance of services in the future, which have both fixed and variable consideration. We include the unconstrained amount of estimated variable consideration in the transaction price. The amount included in the transaction price is constrained to the amount for which it is probable that a significant reversal of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur. At the end of each subsequent reporting period, we re-evaluate the estimated variable consideration included in the transaction price and any related constraint and, if necessary, adjust our estimate of the overall transaction price.
Research and development, regulatory or commercial milestones in our collaboration agreements may include some, but not necessarily all, of the following types of events:
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
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| • | completion of preclinical research and development work leading to selection of product candidates; |
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| • | initiation of Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 clinical trials; |
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| • | filing of regulatory applications for marketing approval in the United States, Europe or Japan; |
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| • | marketing approval in major markets, such as the United States, Europe, or Japan; |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
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| • | commercial milestones and/or commercial royalties; and |
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| • | achievement of certain other technical, scientific, or development criteria. |
At the inception of each arrangement that includes research, development, or regulatory milestone payments, we evaluate whether the milestones are considered probable of being reached and estimate the amount to be included in the transaction price using the most likely amount method. If it is probable that a significant revenue reversal would not occur, the associated milestone value is included in the transaction price. Milestone payments that are not within our control or that of the licensee, such as regulatory approvals, are not considered probable of being achieved until those approvals are received. The transaction price is then allocated to each performance obligation on an SSP basis, for which we recognize revenue as or when the performance obligations under the contract are satisfied. At the end of each subsequent reporting period, we re-evaluate the probability of achievement of such development milestones and any related constraint, and if necessary, adjust our estimate of the overall transaction price. Any such adjustments are recorded on a cumulative catch-up basis, which may affect license, collaboration, and other revenues and earnings in the period of adjustment. The process of successfully achieving the criteria for the milestone payments is highly uncertain. Consequently, there is a risk that we may not earn all of the milestone payments from each of our collaborators. We recognized $6.3 million, $11.9 million, and $12.1 million from drug discovery milestones for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively.
Software performance obligations and transaction price allocation: At contract inception, we assess the goods or services promised within each contract that falls under the scope of ASC 606 to identify distinct performance obligations, which requires significant judgment based on the nature of each transaction. We allocate the transaction price to each distinct performance obligation on an SSP basis. We determine the SSP using information that includes historical discounting practices, market conditions, cost-plus analysis, and other observable inputs. We typically have more than one SSP for individual performance obligations due to the stratification of those items by classes of customers and circumstances. In these instances, we may use information such as the size and geographic region of the customer in determining the SSP. We may also estimate SSP based on management judgment by considering available data such as internal cost and margin objectives, pricing strategies, market/competitive conditions, historical profitability data, as well as other observable inputs. We establish SSP ranges for our products and services and reassesses them periodically. The determination of SSP required significant management judgment.
Collaboration agreement transaction price allocation and measurement of progress: At the inception of each arrangement, we utilize judgment to assess the nature of the performance obligations to determine whether they are distinct or a single combined performance obligation. We allocate the transaction price to each performance obligation based on the relative SSP of each performance obligation at inception, which will be determined based on each performance obligation’s estimated SSP. We determine the SSP at contract inception of the research activities based on internal estimates of the costs to perform the services, inclusive of a reasonable profit margin. Significant judgment is used to determine the inputs for total costs to perform the research activities, which may include the length of time required, the internal hours expected to be incurred on the services and the number and costs of various studies that will be performed by third-parties to complete the research plan. Revenue is recognized on a proportional performance basis over the period of service, using input-based measurements to estimate the performance. Changes to these assumptions may have a material effect on the amount and timing of revenue recognized. We recognized revenue of $14.6 million, $1.0 million, and zero related to collaboration agreements with proportional performance measurement for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively.
Stock-Based Compensation
Compensation expense related to stock-based transactions, including employee, consultant, and non-employee director stock option awards, is measured and recognized in the consolidated financial statements based on fair value. The fair value of each option award is estimated on the grant date using the Black Scholes option-pricing model. Expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the vesting period of the award. Forfeitures are accounted for in the period in which the awards are forfeited.
We estimate the fair value of our option awards to employees, directors and non-employees using the Black-Scholes option pricing model, which requires the input of subjective assumptions, including the expected stock price volatility and the calculation of expected term of the award. Due to the lack of complete company-specific historical and implied volatility data for the full expected term of the stock-based awards, we base our estimate of expected volatility on a representative group of publicly traded companies. For these analyses, we selected companies with comparable characteristics to our own, including enterprise value, risk profiles, position within the industry and with historical share price information sufficient to meet the expected life of the stock-based awards. We compute historical volatility data using the daily closing prices for the selected companies’ shares during the equivalent period of the calculated expected term of the stock-based awards. We will continue to apply this process until a sufficient amount of historical information regarding the volatility of our own stock price becomes available. We have estimated the expected term of our employee stock option using historical exercise data.
Our weighted average volatility was, 59%, 60% and 57% for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively, and our expected term was 4.66, 4.49 and 6.05 for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively.
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We will continue to use judgment in evaluating the assumptions related to our stock-based compensation on a prospective basis. As we continue to accumulate additional data related to our common stock, we may have refinements to our estimates, which could materially impact our future stock-based compensation expense.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
See Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report for a discussion of recently issued accounting pronouncements.