Quarterly report [Sections 13 or 15(d)]

Description of the Business and Financial Condition

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Description of the Business and Financial Condition
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Description Of Business And Liquidity [Abstract]  
Description of the Business and Financial Condition

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Description of the Business and Financial Condition

ClearPoint Neuro, Inc. (the “Company”) is a commercial-stage medical device company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative platforms for performing minimally invasive surgical procedures in the brain. From the Company’s inception in 1998, the Company has deployed significant resources to fund its efforts to develop the capabilities for enabling neurosurgery interventions, building an intellectual property portfolio, and identifying and building out commercial applications for the technologies it develops. In 2021, the Company’s efforts expanded beyond the MRI suite to encompass development and commercialization of new neurosurgical device products for the operating room setting. In 2022, the Company commercialized the ClearPoint Prism Neuro Laser Therapy System as its first therapy product offering. The Company has exclusive global commercialization rights to the ClearPoint Prism Neuro Laser Therapy System through its Swedish partner, Clinical Laserthermia Systems (“CLS”).

Since 2021, a growing part of the Company’s revenue is derived from consulting services to pharmaceutical and biotech companies, academic institutions, and contract research organizations having a focus on biologics and drug delivery. The Company’s services include protocol consultation and solutions for pre-clinical study design and execution for the delivery of pharmaceutical agents to the brain. Currently, the Company has more than 60 biologics and drug delivery customers who are evaluating or using its products and services in trials to inject gene and cell therapies directly into the brain. These relationships involve drug development programs that are at various stages of development ranging from preclinical research to late-stage regulatory trials for multiple distinct disease states. This part of the Company’s business potentially represents the largest opportunity for growth; however, the Company’s ability to grow in this market is dependent on its ability to maintain and establish new relationships with customers, such customers' continuation of research and product development plans, and such customers' achievement of success in completion of clinical trials and subsequent regulatory approvals of their biologics and drugs.

Macroeconomic Trends

 

The Company continues to monitor the impacts of various macroeconomic trends, such as inflationary pressure, changes in monetary policy, decreasing consumer confidence and spending, the introduction of or changes in tariffs or trade barriers, and global or local recession. Such changes in domestic and global macroeconomic conditions may lead to increased costs for the business. Additionally, these macroeconomic trends could adversely affect the Company’s customers, which could impact their willingness to spend on the Company’s products and services, or their ability to make payments, which could harm the collection of accounts receivable and financial results. The world’s financial markets remain susceptible to significant stresses, resulting in reductions in available credit and government spending, economic downturn or stagnation, foreign currency fluctuations and volatility in the valuations of securities generally. As a result, the Company’s ability to access capital markets and other funding sources in the future may not be available on commercially reasonable terms, if at all. The rapid development and fluidity of these situations precludes any prediction as to the ultimate impact they will have on the Company’s business, financial condition, results of operation and cash flows, which will depend largely on future developments.

Liquidity

The Company has incurred net losses since its inception, which has resulted in a cumulative deficit at March 31, 2025 of $197.4 million. In addition, the Company’s use of cash from operations amounted to $6.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, and $9.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2024. Since its inception, the Company has financed its operations principally from the sale of equity securities and the issuance of notes payable, however, there is no assurance such sale of equity securities and/or issuance of notes payable will be at terms favorable to the Company or available at all in the future. As required by generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S. (“GAAP”), the Company has evaluated its ability to continue as a going concern and has determined that based on current forecasts, existing cash and cash equivalent balances at March 31, 2025 are sufficient to support the Company's operations and meet its obligations for at least the next twelve months.

In March 2024, the Company completed a follow-on public offering of 2,653,848 shares of its common stock from which the net proceeds totaled approximately $16.2 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions, and other offering expenses paid by the Company. In November 2024, the Company entered into an At-the-Market Equity Offering Sales Agreement with an investment banking firm (the “ATM Agreement”) pursuant to which it may offer and sell, from time to time, shares of its common stock, having aggregate sales proceeds of up to $50 million, subject to the terms and conditions of the ATM Agreement. Through March 31, 2025, the Company had not issued any shares of common stock under the ATM Agreement. See Note 8 below for additional information with respect to these offerings.

In August 2024, the Company repaid in full the remaining $10 million outstanding under the Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”), entered into in 2020, pursuant to which it issued secured convertible notes to two investors raising gross proceeds of $25 million, of which $15 million had been previously converted to common stock. See Note 6 below for additional information with respect to these notes.