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FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
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Item 2.02 – Results of Operations and Financial Condition.
On May 9, 2023, Seer, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release (the “Press Release”) announcing results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023. A copy of the Press Release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this current report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein.
The information under Item 2.02 in this current report on Form 8-K and the related information in the exhibit attached hereto shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing.
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99.1 Press Release, dated May 9, 2023
104 Cover page from this Current Report on Form 8-K, formatted in Inline XBRL.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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| Date: May 9, 2023 | By: | /s/ David Horn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| David Horn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Seer Reports First Quarter 2023 Financial Results
Grew revenue 22% year-over-year with continued growth in installed base
and an increasing number of customer presentations and publications
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. May 9, 2023 – Seer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEER), a life sciences company commercializing a disruptive new platform for proteomics, today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023.
“We started the year off strong with continued growth in our installed base and progress against our strategic objectives. It is exciting to see the Proteograph enable breakthrough science, with increasing data demonstrating its power, extensibility, and catalyzation of new applications,” said Omid Farokhzad, CEO and President. “We are seeing more data being generated by our customers, the initiation of larger studies, and the first customer publications make their way through the peer-review process. We expect this momentum to continue throughout the year as more customers adopt the technology and scale their use of the platform.”
Recent Highlights
•Achieved revenue of $4.1 million for the first quarter of 2023, an increase of 22% over the prior year period
•Announced the first protein quantitative trait loci, or pQTL, customer manuscript, demonstrating the association of genetic variants with protein variants at peptide-level resolution in healthy and diabetic patients, now available as a pre-print on BioRxiv
•Announced a peer-reviewed article published in PLOS ONE, which shows the advantage of multiple peptide measurements per protein over single protein measurements, using them to identify examples of previously unknown differential protein isoform abundance in lung cancer vs. healthy controls
•Presented ten posters at the US Human Proteome Organization conference highlighting the Proteograph Product Suite, including customer data on COVID-19 vaccine response and a robust, high-throughput method for deep plasma proteomics
First Quarter 2023 Financial Results
Revenue was $4.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023, a 22% increase from $3.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022. The increase was primarily due to increased sales of consumable kits related to the Proteograph Product Suite. Product-related revenue for the first quarter of 2023 was $3.6 million, including $1.3 million of related party revenue, and consisted of sales of SP100 instruments, consumable kits and platform evaluations. Service revenue was $0.1 million and grant and other revenue was $0.3 million.
Gross profit, inclusive of grant and other revenue, was $2.1 million and gross margin was 51% for the first quarter of 2023.
Operating expenses were $29.5 million for the first quarter of 2023, including $8.7 million of stock-based compensation, an increase of 18%, as compared to $25.0 million, including $8.1 million of stock-based compensation, for the corresponding prior year period. The increase in expenses was driven by increased employee compensation and other
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related expenses, including stock-based compensation, product development efforts related to the Proteograph Product Suite, and expenses associated with build-out of expansion facilities.
Net loss was $24.0 million for the first quarter of 2023, as compared to $23.6 million for the corresponding prior year period.
Cash, cash equivalents and investments were $410.5 million as of March 31, 2023.
2023 Guidance
Seer continues to expect full year 2023 revenue to be in the range of $23 million to $25 million, representing growth of 48% - 61% over full year 2022.
Webcast Information
Seer will host a conference call to discuss the first quarter 2023 financial results on Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 1:30 pm Pacific Time / 4:30 pm Eastern Time. A webcast of the conference call can be accessed at http://investor.seer.bio. The webcast will be archived and available for replay for at least 90 days after the event.
About Seer
Seer™ is a life sciences company developing transformative products that open a new gateway to the proteome. Seer’s Proteograph™ Product Suite is an integrated solution that includes proprietary engineered nanoparticles, consumables, automation instrumentation and software to perform deep, unbiased proteomic analysis at scale in a matter of hours. Seer designed the Proteograph workflow to be efficient and easy to use, leveraging widely adopted laboratory instrumentation to provide a decentralized solution that can be incorporated by nearly any lab. Seer’s Proteograph Product Suite is for research use only and is not intended for diagnostic procedures. For more information, please visit www.seer.bio.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, that reflect the Company’s current views with respect to certain current and future events and financial performance. Words such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “projects,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimates,” variations of such words, and similar expressions are also intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are based on the Company’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to it on the date of this press release. Forward-looking statements may involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements regarding the Company’s outlook for fiscal year 2023. These and other risks are described more fully in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, to be filed with the SEC, and other documents the Company subsequently files with the SEC from time to time. Except to the extent required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.
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Investor Contact:
Carrie Mendivil
investor@seer.bio
Media Contact:
Karen Possemato
pr@seer.bio
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UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)
| Three Months Ended March 31, | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | |||||||||||||
| Revenue: | ||||||||||||||
| Product | $ 2,343 | $ 2,149 | ||||||||||||
| Service | 69 | 79 | ||||||||||||
| Related party | 1,306 | 1,070 | ||||||||||||
| Grant and other | 335 | 14 | ||||||||||||
| Total revenue | 4,053 | 3,312 | ||||||||||||
| Cost of revenue: | ||||||||||||||
| Product | 1,436 | 1,660 | ||||||||||||
| Service | 7 | 14 | ||||||||||||
| Related party | 478 | 394 | ||||||||||||
| Grant and other | 64 | — | ||||||||||||
| Total cost of revenue | 1,985 | 2,068 | ||||||||||||
| Gross profit | 2,068 | 1,244 | ||||||||||||
| Operating expenses: | ||||||||||||||
| Research and development | 14,474 | 10,732 | ||||||||||||
| Selling, general and administrative | 15,039 | 14,298 | ||||||||||||
| Total operating expenses | 29,513 | 25,030 | ||||||||||||
| Loss from operations | (27,445) | (23,786) | ||||||||||||
| Other income (expense): | ||||||||||||||
| Interest income | 3,717 | 144 | ||||||||||||
| Other expense | (231) | (4) | ||||||||||||
| Total other income | 3,486 | 140 | ||||||||||||
| Net loss | $ (23,959) | $ (23,646) | ||||||||||||
| Other comprehensive loss: | ||||||||||||||
Unrealized gain (loss) on available-for-sale securities | 1,158 | (1,691) | ||||||||||||
| Comprehensive loss | $ (22,801) | $ (25,337) | ||||||||||||
Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted | $ (0.38) | $ (0.38) | ||||||||||||
Weighted-average common shares outstanding, basic and diluted | 63,543,094 | 62,003,504 | ||||||||||||
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CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)
| March 31, | December 31, | |||||||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | |||||||||||||
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| ASSETS | ||||||||||||||
| Current assets: | ||||||||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ 48,386 | $ 53,208 | ||||||||||||
| Short-term investments | 303,708 | 368,031 | ||||||||||||
| Accounts receivable, net | 4,735 | 4,315 | ||||||||||||
| Related party receivables | 1,383 | 1,804 | ||||||||||||
| Other receivables | 1,065 | 899 | ||||||||||||
| Inventory | 3,718 | 4,627 | ||||||||||||
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 4,380 | 2,098 | ||||||||||||
| Total current assets | 367,375 | 434,982 | ||||||||||||
| Long-term investments | 58,416 | 5,157 | ||||||||||||
| Operating lease right-of-use assets | 26,944 | 27,003 | ||||||||||||
| Property and equipment, net | 18,675 | 19,408 | ||||||||||||
| Restricted cash | 524 | 524 | ||||||||||||
| Other assets | 853 | 855 | ||||||||||||
| Total assets | $ 472,787 | $ 487,929 | ||||||||||||
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY | ||||||||||||||
| Current liabilities: | ||||||||||||||
| Accounts payable | $ 1,956 | $ 2,104 | ||||||||||||
| Accrued expenses | 7,175 | 8,298 | ||||||||||||
| Deferred revenue | 263 | 133 | ||||||||||||
| Operating lease liabilities, current | 2,188 | 1,842 | ||||||||||||
| Other current liabilities | 172 | 207 | ||||||||||||
| Total current liabilities | 11,754 | 12,584 | ||||||||||||
| Operating lease liabilities, net of current portion | 27,684 | 28,032 | ||||||||||||
| Other noncurrent liabilities | 360 | 320 | ||||||||||||
| Total liabilities | 39,798 | 40,936 | ||||||||||||
| Commitments and contingencies | ||||||||||||||
| Stockholders’ equity: | ||||||||||||||
Preferred stock, $0.00001 par value; 5,000,000 shares authorized as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022; zero shares issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022 | — | — | ||||||||||||
Class A common stock, $0.00001 par value; 94,000,000 shares authorized as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022; 59,694,350 and 59,366,077 shares issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Class B common stock, $0.00001 par value; 6,000,000 shares authorized as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022; 4,044,969 and 4,044,969 shares issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively | — | — | ||||||||||||
| Additional paid-in capital | 676,536 | 667,739 | ||||||||||||
| Accumulated other comprehensive loss | (93) | (1,251) | ||||||||||||
| Accumulated deficit | (243,455) | (219,496) | ||||||||||||
| Total stockholders’ equity | 432,989 | 446,993 | ||||||||||||
| Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity | $ 472,787 | $ 487,929 | ||||||||||||
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