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Gritstone bio, Inc.

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No Longer Reporting

The company has not filed an annual or quarterly report since its Q2 FY2024 10-Q, filed Aug 13, 2024. Its latest SEC filing is a 4 from Apr 8, 2025.

The sections below describe the company as of the FY2023 annual report.

What Did They Do?

Develops vaccine-based immunotherapy candidates for cancer and infectious diseases, including personalized and off-the-shelf cancer vaccines and vaccines targeting viral diseases.

How Did They Make Money?

Grant providers fund research as qualifying research costs arise. Collaboration and license partners may pay upfront fees, payments tied to development, regulatory and commercial milestones, manufacturing-service fees, and royalties on licensed products.

revenue
SegmentShareRevenue
Collaboration and license revenues
8.1%
FY2020: 86%
Grant revenues
Recurring

92%
FY2020: 14%

Who Were Their Customers?

Research funders and pharmaceutical partners support vaccine development through grants, contracts and collaborations; named counterparts include Gilead, CEPI, the Gates Foundation and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.

Did Revenues Turn Into Profits?

No. It lost $138.5M in FY2023.

Operating income, FY2023
−854% of revenue
▲ +16% (Loss) vs FY2022 (−$120.4M, −604%)
Net income, FY2023
−847% of revenue
▲ +16% (Loss) vs FY2022 (−$119.7M, −600%)
Free cash flow, FY2023
−772% of revenue
▲ +4% (Loss) vs FY2022 (−$121.8M, −611%)

How Were They Changing?

Since the FY2023 annual report
Latest quarter: Q2 FY2024, the three months to Jun 30, 2024
Revenue
▼ −53%
vs $2M in Q2 FY2023
Grant Revenues share of revenue vs 79.5% in Q2 FY2023
  • Apr 4, 2025 Bankruptcy reorganization took effect and canceled the old common shares The company emerged as the reorganized debtor; holders of canceled equity interests received no property under the plan.
  • Jan 3, 2025 Sold substantially all assets and its CEO resigned The asset sale closed, and Andrew Allen resigned as president and CEO effective the next day.
  • Oct 16, 2024 Nasdaq determined the common stock would be delisted The company did not intend to appeal the determination.
  • Oct 10, 2024 Filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection The company filed a voluntary petition and began a Chapter 11 case.

Grew. Revenue grew 3.7x in 4 years, from $4.4M in FY2019 to $16.3M in FY2023, about 39% a year.

More manufacturing moved in-house The older report described in-house facilities as part of vaccine manufacturing. The latest says the company moved most manufacturing steps that had been outsourced in-house.

Revenue over time
Collaboration and license revenues Grant revenues
$50M$25M$0

Who Did They Compete With?

Competes with BioNTech, Genentech, Moderna Therapeutics, Merck, Achilles Therapeutics, Astrazeneca, Evaxion Biotech, NousCom, Nykode Therapeutics, Transgene, Geneos Therapeutics, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Novavax, Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline, Arcturus Therapeutics, CureVac, Replicate Bioscience, and HDT Bio

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