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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2026
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

2. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

There have been no significant changes from the significant accounting policies and estimates disclosed in Note 2 of the “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements” in the audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2025 and notes thereto, included in the Company’s final prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(4) under the Securities Act with the SEC on February 27, 2026, except as noted below.

Basis of Presentation - The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”). Any reference in these notes to applicable guidance is meant to refer to the authoritative United States generally accepted accounting principles as found in the Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) and Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”).

Principles of Consolidation – The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements reflect the consolidated operations of the Company, including its wholly owned subsidiaries, Generate Biomedicines Securities Corporation, and Generate Golukibart Therapeutics, Inc. (formerly Pioneering Medicines 02, Inc. (“PMCo”)), which was until February 26, 2026, a variable interest entity of which the Company was the primary beneficiary. On February 26, 2026, the Company acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of PMCo. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated.

At the inception of a transaction, the Company identifies each entity involved in such transaction for which control is achieved by the Company through means other than voting rights (each a “variable interest entity” or “VIE”) and determines if the Company is the primary beneficiary of such entity’s operations. A VIE is broadly defined as an entity where either (i) the equity investors as a group, if any, do not have a controlling financial interest, or (ii) the equity investment at risk is insufficient to finance that entity’s activities without additional subordinated financial support. The Company consolidates investments in a VIE when the Company is determined to be the primary beneficiary. ASC Topic 810, Consolidations (“ASC 810”), requires the Company to perform a qualitative approach to determining whether or not a VIE will need to be consolidated. This evaluation is based on the Company’s ability to direct and influence the activities of a VIE that most significantly impact that entity’s economic performance, whether the Company has the power to direct those activities, and if the Company’s obligation to absorb losses or receive benefits from the VIE could potentially be significant to the VIE.

For consolidated entities with ownership interest or economic rights held by third-parties, the Company records net loss attributable to non-controlling interests in its consolidated statements of operations equal to the percentage of common stock ownership interest retained in the respective operations by the non-controlling parties. The Company presents non-controlling interests as a component of stockholders’ equity or mezzanine equity on its consolidated balance sheets based on the redemption rights of the equity interest. The Company records the non-controlling interests’ share of loss based on the percentage of ownership interest retained by the respective non-controlling interest holders.

Use of Estimates – The preparation of the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in accordance with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of expenses during the reporting period. The Company bases its estimates and assumptions on historical experience, known trends and other market-specific or other relevant factors that it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances. On an ongoing basis, management evaluates its estimates, which include but are not limited to pre-paid and accrued research and development expenses, liquidity projections, stock-based compensation expense and the incremental borrowing rate for operating and finance lease right-of-use assets, and income taxes. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Changes in estimates are recorded in the period in which they become known.

Cash and Cash Equivalents – Cash and cash equivalents are short-term, highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less at the date of purchase. Investments qualifying as cash equivalents primarily consist of money market funds and government securities.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted – In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses. This update requires that at each interim and annual reporting period public entities disclose (1) the amounts of purchases of inventory, employee compensation, depreciation, amortization, and depletion in commonly presented expense captions; (2) certain amounts that are already required to be disclosed under current GAAP in the same disclosure as the other disaggregation requirements; (3) a qualitative description of the amounts remaining in relevant expense captions that are not separately disaggregated quantitatively; (4) the total amount of selling expenses and; (5) in annual reporting periods, the definition of selling expenses. In January 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-01, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Clarifying the Effective Date. This update clarifies that ASU 2024-03 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adopting this guidance on its financial statements.

In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-06, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software. This update removes all references to prescriptive and sequential software development stages throughout Subtopic 350-40. The update requires an entity to start capitalizing software costs when management has authorized and committed to funding the software project, and it is probable that the project will be completed and the software will be used to perform the function intended. The update further specifies that the disclosures in Subtopic 360-10 are required for all capitalized internal-use software costs. This update is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027, and interim reporting periods within those annual reporting periods. Early adoption is permitted. The guidance can be applied using a prospective transition approach, a modified transition approach that is based on the status of the project and whether software costs were capitalized before the date of adoption, or a retrospective transition approach. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adopting this guidance on its financial statements.