Description of Business, Basis of Presentation and Going Concern	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Accounting Policies [Abstract]
Description of Business, Basis of Presentation and Going Concern	Description of Business, Basis of Presentation and Going Concern Description of Business vTv Therapeutics Inc. (the “Company,” the “Registrant,” “we” or “us”) was incorporated in the state of Delaware in April 2015. The Company is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing oral, small molecule drug candidates intended to help treat people living with diabetes and other chronic diseases. The Company’s clinical pipeline is led by cadisegliatin, currently in a Phase 3 trial, a potential first-in-class oral liver-selective glucokinase activator being investigated as an adjunctive therapy to insulin for the treatment of type 1 diabetes. The Company and its development partners are investigating multiple molecules across different indications for chronic diseases. Principles of Consolidation vTv Therapeutics Inc. is a holding company, and its principal asset is a controlling equity interest in vTv Therapeutics LLC (“vTv LLC”), the Company’s principal operating subsidiary. The Company has determined that vTv LLC is a variable-interest entity (“VIE”) for accounting purposes and that vTv Therapeutics Inc. is the primary beneficiary of vTv LLC because (through its managing member interest in vTv LLC and the fact that the senior management of vTv Therapeutics Inc. is also the senior management of vTv LLC) it has the power and benefits to direct all of the activities of vTv LLC, which include those that most significantly impact vTv LLC’s economic performance. vTv Therapeutics Inc. has therefore consolidated vTv LLC’s results pursuant to Accounting Standards Codification Topic 810, “Consolidation” in its Consolidated Financial Statements. The assets and liabilities of vTv LLC represent substantially all of the Company's consolidated assets and liabilities with the exception of the Warrants and $68.4 million of cash and cash equivalents. Various holders own non-voting interests in vTv LLC, representing a de minimis amount of economic interest. Effectively, vTv Therapeutics Inc.’s interest is approximately 100% of vTv LLC’s economic results. vTv Therapeutics Inc. has provided financial and other support to vTv LLC in the form of its purchase of vTv Units with the net proceeds of the Company’s various debt and equity transactions in prior years and equity purchase agreements with various parties. vTv Therapeutics Inc. will not be required to provide financial or other support for vTv LLC. However, vTv Therapeutics Inc. will control its business and other activities through its managing member interest in vTv LLC, and its management is the management of vTv LLC. Nevertheless, because vTv Therapeutics Inc. will have no material assets other than its interests in vTv LLC, any financial difficulties at vTv LLC could result in vTv Therapeutics Inc. recognizing a loss. Liquidity To date, the Company has not generated any product revenue and has not achieved profitable operations. The continuing development of our drug candidates will require additional financing. From its inception through December 31, 2025, the Company has funded its operations primarily through a combination of private placements of common and preferred equity, research collaboration agreements, upfront and milestone payments for license agreements, debt and equity financings and the completion of its IPO in August 2015. As of December 31, 2025, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $326.7 million and has generated net losses in each year of its existence. As of December 31, 2025, the Company's liquidity sources included cash and cash equivalents of $88.9 million. See Note 9 for details on financing transactions for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024. On February 28, 2024, we entered into the TD Cowen Sales Agreement, pursuant to which we may offer and sell, from time to time, through or to TD Cowen, as sales agent or principal, shares of our Class A common stock, having an aggregate offering price of up to $50.0 million (the “TD Cowen ATM Offering”). Pursuant to General Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3, at no time will we sell securities registered on the registration statement relating to the TD Cowen ATM Offering in an aggregate amount exceeding one-third of our public float during any 12-calendar month period, so long as our public float remains below $75.0 million. Under the terms of the TD Cowen Sales Agreement, we will pay TD Cowen a commission of 3.0% of the aggregate proceeds from the sale of shares and reimburse certain legal fees or other disbursements. On September 17, 2024, the Company sold 179,400 shares of Class A common stock under the TD Cowen ATM Offering for net proceeds of $2.5 million. On January 30, 2026, the Company entered into a Second Amendment to License Agreement with Newsoara Biopharma Co., Ltd. (“Newsoara”) (the “Second Amendment”). Under the Second Amendment, Newsoara's rights in the Company's PDE4 inhibitor, HPP737, will expand to include all countries of the world upon Newsoara's payment of the upfront fee of $20.0 million. See Note 15 for further details.

vTv Therapeutics Inc. (the “Company,” the “Registrant,” “we” or “us”) was incorporated in the state of Delaware in April 2015. The Company is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing oral, small molecule drug candidates intended to help treat people living with diabetes and other chronic diseases. The Company’s clinical pipeline is led by cadisegliatin, currently in a Phase 3 trial, a potential first-in-class oral liver-selective glucokinase activator being investigated as an adjunctive therapy to insulin for the treatment of type 1 diabetes. The Company and its development partners are investigating multiple molecules across different indications for chronic diseases.

The Company has determined that vTv LLC is a variable-interest entity (“VIE”) for accounting purposes and that vTv Therapeutics Inc. is the primary beneficiary of vTv LLC because (through its managing member interest in vTv LLC and the fact that the senior management of vTv Therapeutics Inc. is also the senior management of vTv LLC) it has the power and benefits to direct all of the activities of vTv LLC, which include those that most significantly impact vTv LLC’s economic performance. vTv Therapeutics Inc. has therefore consolidated vTv LLC’s results pursuant to Accounting Standards Codification Topic 810, “Consolidation” in its Consolidated Financial Statements. The assets and liabilities of vTv LLC represent substantially all of the Company's consolidated assets and liabilities with the exception of the Warrants and $68.4 million of cash and cash equivalents.

Various holders own non-voting interests in vTv LLC, representing a de minimis amount of economic interest. Effectively, vTv Therapeutics Inc.’s interest is approximately 100% of vTv LLC’s economic results. vTv Therapeutics Inc. has provided financial and other support to vTv LLC in the form of its purchase of vTv Units with the net proceeds of the Company’s various debt and equity transactions in prior years and equity purchase agreements with various parties. vTv Therapeutics Inc. will not be required to provide financial or other support for vTv LLC. However, vTv Therapeutics Inc. will control its business and other activities through its managing member interest in vTv LLC, and its management is the management of vTv LLC. Nevertheless, because vTv Therapeutics Inc. will have no material assets other than its interests in vTv LLC, any financial difficulties at vTv LLC could result in vTv Therapeutics Inc. recognizing a loss.

To date, the Company has not generated any product revenue and has not achieved profitable operations. The continuing development of our drug candidates will require additional financing. From its inception through December 31, 2025, the Company has funded its operations primarily through a combination of private placements of common and preferred equity, research collaboration agreements, upfront and milestone payments for license agreements, debt and equity financings and the completion of its IPO in August 2015. As of December 31, 2025, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $326.7 million and has generated net losses in each year of its existence. As of December 31, 2025, the Company's liquidity sources included cash and cash equivalents of $88.9 million. See Note 9 for details on financing transactions for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.

On February 28, 2024, we entered into the TD Cowen Sales Agreement, pursuant to which we may offer and sell, from time to time, through or to TD Cowen, as sales agent or principal, shares of our Class A common stock, having an aggregate offering price of up to $50.0 million (the “TD Cowen ATM Offering”). Pursuant to General Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3, at no time will we sell securities registered on the registration statement relating to the TD Cowen ATM Offering in an aggregate amount exceeding one-third of our public float during any 12-calendar month period, so long as our public float remains below $75.0 million. Under the terms of the TD Cowen Sales Agreement, we will pay TD Cowen a commission of 3.0% of the aggregate proceeds from the sale of shares and reimburse certain legal fees or other disbursements. On September 17, 2024, the Company sold 179,400 shares of Class A common stock under the TD Cowen ATM Offering for net proceeds of $2.5 million.

On January 30, 2026, the Company entered into a Second Amendment to License Agreement with Newsoara Biopharma Co., Ltd. (“Newsoara”) (the “Second Amendment”). Under the Second Amendment, Newsoara's rights in the