Company: BOLT
Filing Date: 2025-03-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-043873
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Company: Bolt Biotherapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1B
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pecific ISAC product candidate concepts with the potential to identify up to three clinical candidates for development. In August 2021, we entered into an oncology research and development collaboration with Innovent to leverage Innovent’s proprietary therapeutic antibody portfolio and antibody discovery capability against undisclosed oncology targets in combination with our Boltbody ISAC technology and myeloid biology expertise to create new candidates for cancer treatments. The Innovent collaboration was amended in March 2024, when we secured exclusive worldwide rights to ISAC programs utilizing specified antibodies against two tumor antigen targets. We expect our collaborations with Toray and Genmab to add additional novel ISACs to our pipeline.

In October 2024, we established a wholly-owned subsidiary in Australia, Bolt Biotherapeutics Australia PTY LTD, to expand our global footprint and better serve our research and development programs in the region. We expect this strategic move to enhance our ability to deliver localized solutions, strengthen partnerships, and accelerate growth in the Australian life sciences market, which offers a supportive environment for research and development initiatives, including a tax regime that provides certain eligible companies with tax benefits.

We have incurred operating losses since our inception. Our net losses were $63.1 million and $69.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. As of December 31, 2024, we had an accumulated deficit of $427.4 million. Substantially all of our net losses have resulted from costs incurred in connection with our research and development programs and from general and administrative costs associated with our operations. We expect to continue to incur significant expenses and increasing operating losses for the foreseeable future as we: 

•conduct our ongoing and planned clinical trials; 

•continue our research and development programs; 

•continue our clinical, regulatory, quality and manufacturing capabilities;

•seek regulatory approvals for our product candidates; and

•operate as a public company. 

Our net losses may fluctuate significantly from year-to-year, depending on the timing of our planned clinical trials and preclinical studies, and our expenditures on other research and development activities. 

Business Conditions and Macroeconomic Factors

Macroeconomic factors, such as increased inflation and interest rates, financial and credit market fluctuations, changes in economic policy, global supply chain constraints, and recent and potential disruptions in access to bank deposits due to bank failures, have had, and we believe will continue to have, an impact on our business and results of operations. Similar, and perhaps more severe, disruptions in