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| Nature of the Business | 1. Nature of the Business Acrivon Therapeutics, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, the “Company”) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing precision medicines utilizing its proprietary Generative Phosphoproteomics Acrivon Predictive Precision Proteomics (“AP3”) platform designed to interpret and quantify compound-specific, drug-regulated pathway activity levels inside the intact cell in an unbiased manner, yielding terabytes of proprietary data and delivering rapid, actionable insights. The Company is currently focused on oncology and advancing its pipeline of preclinical and clinical-stage small molecule inhibitors. ACR-368 (also known as prexasertib), which is a selective small molecule inhibitor targeting CHK1 and CHK2, is in a potentially registrational Phase 2 trial focusing on endometrial cancer (“EC”). ACR-2316 is a novel, potent and selective inhibitor of WEE1 and PKMYT1 that is currently being advanced in Phase 1/2 studies for selected solid tumor types predicted sensitive by AP3. In addition, the Company is advancing internally discovered development candidates targeting CDK11 towards planned Investigational New Drug (“IND”) filing. The Company has received Fast Track designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) for the investigation of ACR-368 as monotherapy based on OncoSignature-predicted sensitivity in patients with EC. The FDA has also granted Breakthrough Device designation for the ACR-368 OncoSignature assay for the identification of EC patients who may benefit from ACR-368 treatment. EC had not been previously studied in prior ACR-368 trials sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company (“Lilly”). Using AP3 for indication screening prior to clinical entry, this tumor type was predicted to be particularly sensitive to ACR-368, which has now been demonstrated in the ongoing Phase 2 study. Clinical data from the ongoing, registrational-intent ACR-368 Phase 2b trial was presented in a late-breaking oral presentation at the European Society of Gynecological Oncology (“ESGO”) Annual Congress in February 2026. Arm 3 of the study was initiated in late 2025 to generate prospective data of ACR-368 with ultra-low dose gemcitabine (“ULDG”) sensitization in all comer (no pre-treatment biopsy or biomarker stratification) serous EC subjects with ≤2 prior LoT. Arm 4 enrollment and dosing is now also ongoing, investigating single agent ACR-368 without ULDG in all comer serous subjects as in Arm 3. The Company’s second clinical-stage asset, ACR-2316, is a novel, selective WEE1/PKMYT1 inhibitor designed using AP3 for superior single-agent activity through strong activation of not only CDK1 and CDK2 but also of PLK1 to drive pro-apoptotic cell death, as observed in preclinical studies against benchmark inhibitors. The Phase 1/2 trial has now advanced into the randomized dose expansion stage of the study. The Company was incorporated in March 2018 under the laws of the state of Delaware, and its principal offices are in Watertown, Massachusetts. Also in March 2018, the Company formed Acrivon AB, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, established in Lund, Sweden. In December 2021, the Company formed Acrivon Securities Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary, established in Massachusetts. Liquidity As an emerging growth entity, the Company has devoted substantially all of its resources since inception to organizing and staffing the Company, business planning, raising capital, establishing its intellectual property portfolio, acquiring and discovering drug candidates, research and development activities for the Company’s in-licensed lead candidate ACR-368 and for the Company’s internally discovered clinical-stage asset, ACR-2316, and other compounds, establishing arrangements with third parties for the manufacture of its drug candidates and component materials, and providing general and administrative support for these operations. As a result, the Company has incurred significant operating losses and negative cash flows from operations since its inception and anticipates that such losses and negative cash flows will continue for the foreseeable future. The Company has incurred recurring losses since its inception, including net losses of $37.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026. As of June 30, 2026, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $311.9 million. To date, the Company has not generated any revenues and expects to continue generating operating losses for the foreseeable future as it continues to expand its research and development efforts. Since its inception, the Company has funded its operations primarily with proceeds from the sales of shares of its convertible preferred stock, the issuance of convertible notes, an initial public offering (“IPO”) and concurrent private placement, and the April 2024 Private Placement. Upon the closing of the Company’s IPO in November 2022, only common stock remains issued and outstanding. In , a sale was made pursuant to the sales agreement with Cowen and Company, LLC, to provide for the issuance and sale of common stock from time to time in “at-the-market” offerings (the “ATM Program”). The Company issued and sold to certain investors 4,054,954 shares of the Company’s common stock at a purchase price of $1.80 per share. The ATM Program sale closed for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $7.3 million. The ATM Program sale is further described in Note 8. The Company expects that its existing cash, cash equivalents and investments of $90.0 million as of June 30, 2026 will be sufficient to fund its operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements for at least 12 months from the date these condensed consolidated financial statements were issued. The Company will need additional funding to support its planned operating activities, including the initiation of certain additional planned development opportunities for its existing drug candidates. There can be no assurance, however, that the current operating plan will be achieved or that additional funding will be available on terms acceptable to the Company, or at all. If the Company is unable to obtain sufficient funding, it could be required to delay its development efforts, limit activities, and reduce research and development costs, which could adversely affect its business prospects. |