Company: BOLT
Filing Date: 2025-03-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-043873
Chunk: 214

Company: Bolt Biotherapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 214
---
 due to $236.2 million maturities of marketable securities, offset by $165.0 million in purchases of marketable securities and $0.2 million in purchases of property and equipment. 

Financing Activities 

Net cash provided by financing activities was $0.1 million and $0.3 million for 2024 and 2023, respectively. The net cash provided by financing activities for 2024 was due to net proceeds from the issuance of common stock from our employee stock purchase plan. The net cash provided by financing activities for the same period in 2023 was due to the net proceeds from the issuance of common stock from our employee stock purchase plan and exercise of stock options. 

Funding Requirements 

Based upon our current operating plans, which includes assumptions regarding collaboration revenue and sublease income, we believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities should be sufficient to fund our operations only through mid-2026. As a result of the risks inherent in budgeting for early-stage drug development, we have concluded that there is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. 

80

See Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional information on our assessment. Similarly, our independent registered public accounting firm included an explanatory paragraph in its report on our financial statements, as of and for the year ended, December 31, 2024, describing the existence of substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.

We will need to raise additional capital to continue the advancement of our programs. In the near term, our primary uses of cash will be to fund the completion of key milestones for clinical programs and to fund our operations, including research and development activities and employee salaries. This includes significant costs relating to clinical trials and manufacturing our product candidates. Our uses of cash in the long term will be similar as we advance our research and development activities and pay employee salaries. Most pharmaceutical products require larger clinical trials as development progresses, and we expect our funding requirements to grow with the advancement of our programs. Our long-term funding requirements will depend on many factors, which are uncertain but include our portfolio prioritization decisions and the success of our collaborations. In turn, our ability to raise additional capital through equity or partnering will depend on the general economic environment in which we operate and our ability to achieve key milestones. Our forecast of the period of time through which our financial resources will be adequate to support our operations is a forward-looking statement that involves risks