Sera Prognostics Q3 2026 revenue $42K; loss widens
Florida Medicaid coverage adds a second state, while PreTRM test volume rose 54% sequentially.
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Sera Prognostics, Inc. reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $42,000, up 163% year over year, and a net loss of $8.053 million versus $7.814 million. Lower average selling prices amid a higher mix of low- or non-reimbursed tests affected revenue. Nine-month net loss was $25.591 million versus $24.047 million. PreTRM test volume rose 54% sequentially and almost five-fold from 1Q26; ordering providers rose 34% sequentially.
Florida added PreTRM to its covered biomarker test list and Medicaid laboratory fee schedule, making it the second state with Medicaid coverage; total covered Medicaid lives are approximately 7 million. Illinois added code 0247U to its Medicaid fee schedule at $525, with no prior authorization; credentialing is complete and managed-care contracting is underway.
Operating expenses fell 11% sequentially following June cost reductions, partly offset by commercial spending; third-quarter results included approximately $0.4 million in severance. Cash, cash equivalents and marketable investment securities totaled $72.8 million at September 30, 2026, and operating cash burn was $7.3 million for the quarter. A PRIME trial subgroup analysis reported a 22% reduction in NICU admissions among first-time mothers. Sera is starting the CE Mark submission process for PreTRM Global.
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- Minor pointPreTRM test revenue increased 163% year over year to $42,000.
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- Minor pointNine-month net loss was $25.591 million, versus $24.047 million.
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
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FORM 8-K
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Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition.
On November 4, 2026, Sera Prognostics, Inc. issued a press release announcing its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2026 and providing business highlights. The full text of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
The information in this Current Report on Form 8-K (including Exhibit 99.1) shall not be deemed to be “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 registration statement or other document pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or into any filing or other document pursuant to the Exchange Act, except to the extent required by applicable law or regulation or as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
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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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Exhibit 99.1
SERA PROGNOSTICS REPORTS THIRD QUARTER 2026 FINANCIAL RESULTS
Company Drives Significant Increases in Test Volume and Ordering Providers with Florida Becoming Second Medicaid State Covering Test
Salt Lake City – November 4, 2026 – Sera Prognostics Inc., The Pregnancy Company® (Nasdaq: SERA), focused on improving maternal and neonatal health by providing innovative pregnancy biomarker information to doctors and patients, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2026.
“The third quarter marked an important step forward as we continued our transition from evidence generation to commercial execution,” said Zhenya Lindgardt, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sera Prognostics. “We delivered strong growth in physician adoption and test volume, saw expanded reimbursement through a second state Medicaid coverage win in Florida, advanced our commercial payer initiatives, and continued to strengthen our clinical and health economic evidence base. Furthermore, following strong supporting evidence, we are working with our notified body to submit our CE Mark for our kit-based PreTRM® Global test. We believe these accomplishments further validate our strategy and position us well as we work toward establishing PreTRM as a foundational component of prenatal care.”
Fiscal Third Quarter 2026 Financial Highlights:
Fiscal Third Quarter 2026 Business Highlights:
Conference Call Information
Sera Prognostics will host a corresponding conference call and live webcast today to discuss third quarter 2026 operational highlights, financial results and recent business highlights at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Individuals interested in listening to the conference call may do so by dialing the following:
US domestic callers: (800) 836-8184
International callers: (646) 517-4150
Webcast Registration Link: https://app.webinar.net/wK8exGQrE0B
Live audio of the webcast will be available online from the Investors page of the Company’s website at www.sera.com. The webcast will be archived on the Investors page and will be available for one year.
About Sera Prognostics, Inc.
Sera Prognostics is a leading health diagnostics company dedicated to improving the lives of women and babies through precision pregnancy care. Sera’s mission is to provide early, pivotal pregnancy information to improve the health of mothers and newborns, resulting in reductions in the costs of healthcare delivery. Sera has a robust pipeline of innovative diagnostic tests focused on the early prediction of preterm birth risk and other complications of pregnancy. Sera’s precision medicine PreTRM® Test reports to a physician the individualized risk of spontaneous premature delivery in a pregnancy, enabling earlier proactive interventions in women with higher risk. Sera Prognostics is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
About Preterm Birth
Preterm birth is defined as any birth before 37 weeks’ gestation and is the leading cause of illness and death in newborns. The 2025 March of Dimes Report Card shows that, for the fourth consecutive year, the United States earned a D+ grade for preterm birth, marking the longest stretch of the lowest grade in Report Card history. Prematurity is associated with a significantly increased risk of major long-term medical complications, including learning disabilities, cerebral palsy, chronic respiratory illness, intellectual disability, seizures, and vision and hearing loss, and can generate significant costs throughout the lives of affected children. The annual health care costs to manage short- and long-term complications of prematurity in the United States were estimated to be approximately $25 billion for 2016.
About the PreTRM® Test
The PreTRM® Test is the only broadly validated, commercially available blood-based biomarker test that provides an early, accurate and individualized risk prediction for spontaneous preterm birth in asymptomatic singleton pregnancies. The PreTRM® Test measures and analyzes proteins in the blood that are highly predictive of preterm birth. The PreTRM® Test permits physicians to identify, during the weeks 18 to 21 of pregnancy, which women are at increased risk for preterm birth and its complications, enabling more informed, personalized clinical decisions based on each woman’s individual risk. The PreTRM® Test is ordered by a medical professional.
Sera, Sera Prognostics, the Sera Prognostics logo, The Pregnancy Company, and PreTRM are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sera Prognostics, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements relating to the date and time and content of the Company’s quarterly earnings release and conference call; availability of a recording of the conference call on the Company’s website; the application for a CE Mark for the Company’s kit-based PreTRM® Global test in Europe; establishing PreTRM as a foundational component of prenatal care; contracting with Medicaid managed care plans in Illinois; discussions with one of the largest commercial insurers regarding a large multi-state, multi-thousand-patient pilot with planned initiation in fiscal year 2027; and the Company’s strategic directives under the caption “About
Sera Prognostics, Inc.” These “forward-looking statements” are based on management’s current expectations of future events and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those set forth in or implied by forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: net losses, cash generation, and the potential need to raise more capital; revenues from the PreTRM Test representing substantially all Company revenues to date; the need for broad scientific and market acceptance of the PreTRM Test; a concentrated number of material customers; our ability to introduce new products; potential competition; our proprietary biobank; critical suppliers; estimates of total addressable market opportunity and forecasts of market growth; potential third-party payer coverage and reimbursement; new reimbursement methodologies applicable to the PreTRM Test, including new CPT codes and payment rates for those codes; changes in FDA regulation of laboratory-developed tests; the intellectual property rights protecting our tests and market position; and other factors discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as any updates to those risk factors filed from time to time in our periodic and current reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All information in this press release is as of the date of the release, and the Company undertakes no duty to update this information unless required by law.
Contacts:
Investor Contact
Scott Gleason
sgleason@sera.com
+1 (801) 657-9803
Media Contact
Nicole Kaplan at Allison Worldwide
sera@allisonworldwide.com
+1 (847) 721-6033
SERA PROGNOSTICS, INC.
Condensed Statements of Operations
(unaudited)
(in thousands, except share and per share data)
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Three Months Ended |
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Nine Months Ended |
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September 30, |
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2026 |
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2025 |
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2026 |
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2025 |
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Revenue |
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$ |
42 |
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$ |
16 |
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$ |
86 |
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$ |
71 |
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Operating expenses: |
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Cost of revenue |
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61 |
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41 |
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153 |
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122 |
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Research and development |
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2,722 |
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3,284 |
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9,245 |
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9,955 |
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Selling and marketing |
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2,252 |
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1,592 |
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6,507 |
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4,883 |
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General and administrative |
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3,894 |
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4,079 |
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12,432 |
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12,661 |
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Total operating expenses |
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8,929 |
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8,996 |
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28,337 |
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27,621 |
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Loss from operations |
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(8,887 |
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(8,980 |
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(28,251 |
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(27,550 |
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Interest expense |
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(2 |
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(2 |
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(5 |
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(8 |
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Other income, net |
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836 |
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1,168 |
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2,665 |
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3,511 |
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Net loss |
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$ |
(8,053 |
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$ |
(7,814 |
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$ |
(25,591 |
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$ |
(24,047 |
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Net loss per share, basic and diluted |
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$ |
(0.16 |
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$ |
(0.16 |
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$ |
(0.51 |
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$ |
(0.51 |
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Weighted-average shares outstanding, basic and diluted |
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50,790,038 |
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49,525,108 |
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50,510,533 |
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46,880,876 |
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SERA PROGNOSTICS, INC.
Condensed Balance Sheets
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(in thousands)
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September 30, |
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December 31, |
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2026 |
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2025 |
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Assets |
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Current assets: |
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Cash and cash equivalents |
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$ |
3,986 |
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$ |
3,944 |
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Marketable securities |
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40,103 |
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35,257 |
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Accounts receivable |
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17 |
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12 |
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Prepaid expenses and other current assets |
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2,114 |
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1,557 |
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Total current assets |
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46,220 |
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40,770 |
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Property and equipment, net |
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1,723 |
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1,149 |
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Long-term marketable securities |
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28,741 |
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56,579 |
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Intangible assets, net |
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859 |
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910 |
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Other assets |
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2,437 |
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2,525 |
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Total assets |
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$ |
79,980 |
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$ |
101,933 |
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Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity |
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Current liabilities: |
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Accounts payable |
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$ |
1,164 |
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$ |
862 |
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Accrued and other current liabilities |
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3,095 |
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3,009 |
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Finance lease obligation, current portion |
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— |
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2 |
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Deferred revenue |
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20,268 |
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20,315 |
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Total current liabilities |
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24,527 |
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24,188 |
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Operating lease obligation, net of current portion |
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3,017 |
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2,337 |
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Total liabilities |
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27,544 |
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26,525 |
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Commitments and contingencies |
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Stockholders’ equity: |
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Common stock, Class A and Class B |
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4 |
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4 |
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Additional paid-in capital |
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390,013 |
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386,864 |
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Accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income |
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(268 |
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262 |
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Accumulated deficit |
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(337,313 |
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(311,722 |
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Total stockholders' equity |
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52,436 |
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75,408 |
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Total liabilities and stockholders' equity |
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$ |
79,980 |
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$ |
101,933 |
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SERA PROGNOSTICS, INC.
Condensed Statements of Cash Flows
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Nine Months Ended |
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September 30, |
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2026 |
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2025 |
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Cash flows from operating activities |
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Net loss |
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$ |
(25,591 |
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$ |
(24,047 |
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Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities: |
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Depreciation and amortization |
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576 |
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696 |
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Stock-based compensation |
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2,939 |
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4,091 |
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Non-cash lease expense |
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212 |
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426 |
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Non-cash investment income, net |
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53 |
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72 |
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Other |
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(18 |
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(5 |
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Changes in operating assets and liabilities: |
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Accounts receivable |
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(5 |
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20 |
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Other receivables |
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— |
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19 |
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Prepaid expenses and other assets |
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(607 |
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115 |
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Accounts payable |
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277 |
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(915 |
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Accrued and other current liabilities |
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(172 |
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(71 |
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Deferred revenue |
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(47 |
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96 |
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Net cash used in operating activities |
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(22,383 |
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(19,503 |
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Cash flows from investing activities |
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Purchases of marketable securities |
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(13,699 |
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(79,832 |
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Proceeds from maturities and sales of marketable securities |
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36,110 |
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45,836 |
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Purchases of property and equipment |
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(158 |
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(396 |
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Purchase of intangible assets |
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(36 |
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— |
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Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities |
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22,217 |
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(34,392 |
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Cash flows from financing activities |
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Proceeds from public offering of common stock, net of issuance costs |
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— |
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53,610 |
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Proceeds from exercise of stock options |
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111 |
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441 |
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Proceeds from employee stock purchase plan |
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99 |
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75 |
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Finance lease principal payments |
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(2 |
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(193 |
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Net cash provided by financing activities |
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208 |
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53,933 |
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Net increase in cash and cash equivalents |
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42 |
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38 |
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Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period |
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3,944 |
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4,043 |
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Cash and cash equivalents at end of period |
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$ |
3,986 |
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$ |
4,081 |
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Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information |
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Cash paid for interest |
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$ |
5 |
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$ |
7 |
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Supplemental disclosure of non-cash investing and financing information |
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Purchases of property and equipment in accounts payable and accrued and other current liabilities |
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$ |
42 |
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$ |
6 |
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