- Cash position2 at €95.4m as of December 31, 2021, compared to €105.7m on September 30, 2021, and €113.0m on December 31, 2020
- Revenues of €4.2m in 2021 compared to €0.4m in 2020
Daix (France), Long Island City (New York, United States), February 14, 2022 – Inventiva (Euronext Paris and Nasdaq: IVA), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of oral small molecule therapies for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and other diseases with significant unmet medical needs, today reported its cash position as of December 31, 2021, and its 2021 full-year revenues1.
Cash Position
As of December 31, 2021, Inventiva’s cash position2 stood at €95.4 million, including €86.6 million of cash and cash equivalents and €8.8 million of short-term deposits, compared to €105.7 million as of September 30, 2021 (comprising only cash and cash equivalent), and €113.0 million as of December 31, 2020, including
€105.7 million of cash and cash equivalents and €7.3 million of short-term deposits, respectively.
Net cash used in operating activities amounted to (€47.7) million for the full year 2021, compared
to (€30.6) million in 2020. Research and Development expenses for 2021 doubled at €48.5 million compared to €23.7 million for the same period in 2020, mainly driven by the costs associated with the preparation and initiation of the NATiV3 Phase III clinical trial with lanifibranor in NASH in the second half of 2021, and to a lesser extent, by the 31% increase of general and administrative expenses from 2020 primarily resulting from Inventiva’s first full fiscal year as a dual listed company in 2021.
Net cash used in investing activities (excluding the increase in short-term deposits of €1.4 million in 2021 and €7.7 million in 2020) amounted to (€0.5) million for the full year 2021, a slight decrease compared to (€0.9) million in 2020.
Net cash from financing activities for the full year 2021 amounted to €25.4 million, mainly due to the sale of $31.5 million (or €27.2 million3) in gross proceeds of the Company’s ordinary shares in the form American Depositary Shares on the second half of 2021. The sales were made through the Company's At-The-Market program established on August 2, 2021, to existing and new specialized institutional investors. For the same period in 2020, net cash generated from financing activities amounted to €111.7 million, driven by the issuance of €15 million (gross proceeds) of ordinary shares to certain existing investors in the Company, the entry into
€10 million in French state-guaranteed credit agreements with a syndicate of French banks, and the receipt of €94.9 million (gross proceeds) following the successful initial public offering on the Nasdaq Global Market in July 2020.
In 2021, the Company recorded a positive exchange rate effect on cash and cash equivalents of €5.0 million.
Considering its current R&D and clinical development programs and excluding any potential additional financial resources that may originate from funding activities, the Company estimates that its cash, cash equivalents and short-term deposits will allow the Company to fund its operations through the first quarter of 20234.
Revenues
The Company’s revenues for the full year 2021 amounted to €4.2 million compared to €0.4 million in 2020 primarily due to the payment to the Company of €4.0 million for a milestone reached at the end of 2021, and received on January 31, 2022, following the launch by AbbVie of the Phase IIb clinical trial with cedirogant in the fourth quarter of 2021. As part of its collaboration in auto-immune diseases on cedirogant with AbbVie, Inventiva is eligible to receive development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments as well as royalty payments.
Next key milestones expected
- Activation of first clinical sites for Phase IIa combination trial with lanifibranor and SGLT2 inhibitor empagliflozin in patients with NASH and T2D – planned for the first half of 2022
- Last Patient First Visit of the NATiV3 Phase III clinical trial evaluating lanifibranor in NASH – planned for the second half of 2022
- Publication of the results of the Phase II clinical trial evaluating lanifibranor for the treatment of NAFLD in patients with T2D – planned for the second half of 2022
- Strategy update on the development of odiparcil – planned for 2022
Upcoming investor conference participation
- 11th Annual SVB Leerink Global Healthcare Conference, February 16, 2022
- Cowen 42nd Annual Health Care Conference, March 7, 2022
- Invest securities Biomed Event, March 8, 2022
- H.C. Wainwright Annual Global Life Sciences Conference, May 23-25, 2022
- Jefferies 2021 Healthcare Conference, June 8-10, 2022
Upcoming scientific conference presentations
- International Conference on Fatty Liver – April 28-30, 2022
Next financial results publication
- Full-Year 2021 financial results: Monday, March 7, 2022 (after U.S. market close)
About Inventiva
Inventiva is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of oral small molecule therapies for the treatment of NASH and other diseases with significant unmet medical need.
Leveraging its expertise and experience in the domain of compounds targeting nuclear receptors, transcription factors and epigenetic modulation, Inventiva is currently advancing lanifibranor, as well as other earlier stage programs.
Lanifibranor, Inventiva’s lead product candidate, is being developed for the treatment of patients with NASH, a common and progressive chronic liver disease for which there are currently no approved therapies. In 2020, Inventiva announced positive topline data from its Phase IIb clinical trial evaluating lanifibranor for the treatment of adult patients with NASH and obtained both FDA Breakthrough Therapy and Fast Track designation for lanifibranor in the treatment of NASH. Lanifibranor is currently being evaluated in a pivotal Phase III clinical trial.
Inventiva’s pipeline also includes odiparcil, a drug candidate for the treatment of patients with subtypes of MPS, a group of rare genetic disorders. Inventiva announced positive topline data from its Phase IIa clinical trial evaluating odiparcil for the treatment of adult MPS VI patients in 2019 and received both FDA Fast Track and Rare Paediatric Disease designation for odiparcil in MPS VI. As part of Inventiva’s decision to focus clinical efforts on the development of lanifibranor, it suspended clinical efforts relating to odiparcil and is reviewing all available options to optimize its development.
The Company has also established a strategic collaboration with AbbVie in the area of autoimmune diseases resulting in the discovery of the drug candidate cedirogant (ABBV-157), an oral RORg inverse agonist. Cedirogant showed promising activity as an oral psoriasis agent in a Phase Ib clinical trial of patients with chronic plaque psoriasis and is currently being evaluated in a Phase IIb clinical trial in patients with moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis. This collaboration enables Inventiva to receive payments upon the achievement of pre-clinical, clinical, regulatory and commercial milestones, in addition to royalties on any approved products resulting from this collaboration.
In parallel, Inventiva is in the process of selecting an oncology development candidate for its Hippo signalling pathway program.
The Company has a scientific team of approximately 70 people with deep expertise in the fields of biology, medicinal and computational chemistry, pharmacokinetics and pharmacology, as well as in clinical development. It also owns an extensive library of approximately 240,000 pharmacologically relevant molecules, approximately 60% of which are proprietary, as well as a wholly‑owned research and development facility.
Inventiva is a public company listed on compartment C of the regulated market of Euronext Paris (ticker: IVA - ISIN: FR0013233012) and on the Nasdaq Global Market in the United States (ticker: IVA). www.inventivapharma.com.
Contacts
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1 The financial results included in this press release are unaudited, preliminary and subject to the completion of financial closing procedures, final audit adjustments and other developments that may arise that could cause the Company’s preliminary results to differ from the financial results that will be reflected in the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021.
2 The cash position is defined as cash and cash equivalents as well as short-term deposits which are included in the category “other current assets” in the IFRS consolidated statement of financial position as of December 31, 2021, but are considered by the Company as liquid and easily available.
3 Based on the U.S. dollar euro exchange rates published by the European Central Bank on the sale dates.
4 This estimate is based on the Company’s current business plan and excludes any potential milestones payable to the Company and any additional expenditures related to the potential continued development of its programs or resulting from the potential in-licensing or acquisition of additional product candidates or technologies, or any associated development the Company may pursue.
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