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Driving the next  
generation of 
cell-based therapies

 
 
 
 
 
 
2020 HIGHLIGHTS

MaxCyte® is  
advancing the  
next generation of  
cell-based therapies  
by unlocking the  
power of the  
human cell.

revenue
(USD '000s)

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19

18

17

16

$26,169

$21,621

$16,667

$13,985

$12,270

revenue growth  
from 2019 to 2020 

revenue growth  
from 2016 to 2020 

21%

23%

Five-year CAGR

Contents

Strategic report

Highlights 

At a glance 

Investment case 

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer’s  
joint review 

Focus on corporate social responsibility  

Life sciences 

Financial review 

Principal risks and uncertainties 

Governance

Leadership team 

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

Compensation report 

Directors’ responsibilities 

Audit committee report 

Financial Statements

Report of independent registered  
public accounting firm 

Balance sheets 

Statements of operations 

Consolidated statements of changes  
in stockholders’ equity 

Statements of cash flow 

Notes to financial statements 

AGM notice 

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Gross margin

Cumulative total 
instruments placed

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89.4%

88.4%

89.0%

89.6%

89.3%

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17

16

400+

320+

250+

200+

150+

Gross funds raised

February 2021

$55.3m

May 2020

$30.5m

Aggregate potential pre-commercial 
milestone payments from commercial 
agreements signed to date 

>$950m

Operational highlights

•  Expanded team of application 

scientists and increased number 
of collaborations to support use of 
MaxCyte technology in developing 
novel engineered next-generation  
cell therapies 

•  Continued to introduce new 

processing assemblies within  
the ExPERT™ brand series  
of commercially‐oriented 
instruments and disposables  
to meet customer demands 

•  Significant commercial momentum 

in transformative therapies — 
three new strategic platform 
licences signed during 2020 with 
leading cell-therapy developers 
Allogene Therapeutics, Caribou 
Biosciences and novel therapy 
company APEIRON Biologics and 
a fourth strategic platform licence 
signed with Myeloid Therapeutics 
in January 2021

•  Bolstered the senior management 

team with several key appointments 
and a leadership promotion 

•  As announced in January 2021, 
MaxCyte is now focusing on 
out-licensing CARMA® platform 
manufacturing processes,  
pre-clinical and clinical data,  
and intellectual property (IP)

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTSSTRATEGIC REPORTAT A GLANCE

Technology is just  
the beginning

Our mission

We believe in the vast potential of next-generation cell therapies  
to have a meaningful impact on the millions of patients worldwide 
who, despite medical advancements, live with unmet medical  
needs across a variety of diseases. Our aim is to be the premier  
cell-engineering platform technology to support the development  
of advanced therapeutics.

Who we are

What we do

How we do it

We are dedicated to advancing cell-engineering 
through application of our proprietary delivery 
platform and collaborative partnerships.  
We are uniquely positioned at the centre  
of next-generation cell therapy development, 
which aims to unlock the power of human  
cells to treat disease.

We help bring the promise of the next 
generation of cell therapies to life. Our Flow 
Electroporation® technology and ExPERT™ 
platform enable our partners to accelerate, 
streamline, and improve the drug discovery 
and development process from the early 
stages of research to commercialisation. 

The MaxCyte offering to partners is driven by 
ground-breaking technology, which allows 
customers to scale up from research to cGMP  
all in one platform — reducing clinical risk.  
Our talented and dedicated team of sales 
representatives and application scientists, of 
which 20 are in the field, works closely with our 
partners all along the development pathway to 
achieve clinical and commercial success. In 
addition, our FDA Master File and Technical Files, 
which have supported 30 clinical trials to date, 
help reduce our customers’ regulatory risk.

Partnered programmes
Continued growth in total licensed programmes 

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

35+

20+

50+

 15+

0

40+

30

*  Between 1 January 2017 and 31 January 2021

Total strategic platform licences*

100+ 

100+

140+

 70+

70+

60

90

120

150

12

 8

3

 1

 0

Licensed for 
clinical use

Total partnered 
programme 
licences

2

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GOvernance

Our Life Sciences business

Delivering real value across diverse markets for the  
next generation of cell-based therapies and drug discovery.

Our technology

It begins with our proprietary ExPERT™ 
platform and our Flow Electroporation® 
technology, which allow molecules to be 
gently, consistently, and repeatably 
inserted into cells for specific purposes. 

Our platform facilitates the delivery of 
molecules into cells while maintaining 
cell viability and function — with the 
flexibility to scale from 75,000 cells to as 
many as 20 billion cells. 

Patient-focused drug 
discovery, development 
and biomanufacturing

Instruments, processing assemblies 
(PAs) and technology sold to pharma 
and biotech companies worldwide: 

 Ò Industry-leading platform enables 

delivery of almost any molecule into 
almost any cell while maintaining high 
cell viability and function

 Ò Strong recurring revenue stream 

 Ò Global footprint field sales  
and applications teams

 Ò Higher productivity and  
shortened timelines

 Ò Consistent high margins

Partnered cell-therapy 
programmes

Enabling the development of novel cell 
therapies with leading players:

 Ò Technology validated by 12  

strategic platform licences with 
potential participation in  
downstream economics

 Ò 140+ partnered programme licences

 – 100+ licensed for clinical use 

 – 75+ clinical programme licences  
to strategic platform licencees

 – Applications in immuno-oncology 

and inherited disorders

 Ò Annual instrument licensing fees  
and PA sales provide recurring  
revenue stream

An enabling technology to  
help accelerate translation  
from concept to the market

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTSSTRATEGIC REPORTINVESTMENT CASE

Building on commercial 
momentum in transformative 
therapies and strong track record

ExPERT™ platform

Demonstrated success  
and strengths 

 Ò  Based on MaxCyte’s proprietary flow technology 
that has been optimised over 20+ years and 
protected by an extensive patent portfolio 

 Ò  Flexibility to deliver larger payloads: agnostic to 

most cell types, approach (autologous/allogeneic) 
and/or gene manipulation technology 

 Ò  High performance: >90% cell viabilities and 
transfection efficiency (depending on cell  
type/molecule) 

 Ò  Closed, cGMP-compliant, ISO-certified and CE 

market instruments 

 Ò  Scalable from research to the clinic, addressing  

a key pain point for customers

 Ò  Faster time to clinic via MaxCyte’s FDA Master 

File and Technical Files 

 Ò  Access to MaxCyte’s extensive cell-engineering 

expertise 

 Ò  Global leadership position in the rapidly growing 

cell-therapy and drug discovery markets 

 Ò  Blue-chip client base that includes all top 10 and 

20 of the top 25 global pharmaceutical 
companies based on 2020 global revenue*

 Ò  Diverse portfolio of clinical partners/licencees is 
representative of the overall potential market, 
which de-risks MaxCyte’s opportunity regardless 
of which approaches advance to market

 – Four new strategic platform licences signed 

during 2020 and January 2021

 – Since 2017, granted 12 strategic platform 
licences for clinical and commercial use 

 – Established license agreements for more than 
140 biotherapeutic programmes (100+ for 
clinical use) in total

 – More than 75 clinical programme licences to 

strategic platform licencees

 – More than $950m in aggregate potential pre-

commercial milestones 

 Ò  Potential significant additional net sales-based 

commercial payments 

 Ò  Industry’s leading scalable electroporation 

technology for high-yield transient expression of 
complex proteins, vaccines and biologics

*  Evaluate Pharma

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Opportunity to capitalise on a rapidly 
growing cell-therapy market 

Resilient business model with 
consistent financial results 

 Ò  Leading provider of cell-engineering platform 
technologies for next-generation cell therapies

 Ò  Five-year CAGR 23% with 21% year/year  

revenue growth in 2020

 Ò Rapidly growing cell-therapy market: 

 Ò ~90% gross margins 

 – More than 1,000 gene, cell and tissue-based 

therapeutic developers* 

 – $19.9b raised in 2020 for gene, cell and  
tissue-based therapeutic developers*  

 Ò  Accelerated adoption of non-viral delivery 

methods primarily driven by nuclease mediated 
gene-editing, increased complexity with next-
generation approaches and viral vector 
manufacturing constraints 

 Ò  Strong strategic-platform-licence pipeline 

 Ò  Consumable sales and instrument  

licences create high recurring revenues 

 Ò  Approximately 80% of our installed instruments 
up for annual lease renewal over the last three 
years have been renewed by our customers, and 
the renewal rate for instruments under strategic 
platform licences has been nearly 100%

 Ò  Aggregate gross proceeds of $85.9m (before 

expenses) raised in two private placements with 
leading life sciences investors completed in 
February 2021 and May 2020 

*  Alliance for Regenerative Medicine

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTSSTRATEGIC REPORTCHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S JOINT REVIEW

MaxCyte delivered revenues ahead of expectations, 
expanded our number of partnerships, and built 
our largest partnership pipeline. 

Doug Doerfler
Chief Executive Officer

Our goal is to establish the 
MaxCyte ExPERT™ platform  
as the standard non-viral  
cell-engineering system for 
the growing, next-generation  
cell-therapy market

Overview
MaxCyte is a leading provider of cell-engineering 
platform technologies focused on advancing the 
discovery, development and commercialisation 
of next-generation cell-based medicines. 
MaxCyte’s proprietary Flow Electroporation® 
platform technology, branded as ExPERT™, is a 
non-viral delivery platform that leads the industry 
due to its high performance (measured by 
efficiency and viability), scalability, and flexibility. 

The ExPERT™ system enables our customers 
to safely, efficiently, and with high 
reproducibility engineer cells while maintaining 
high cell viability and potency, which advances 
the scaled therapeutic application of cell 
therapies. Our technology has been 
particularly impactful in supporting our 
partners’ goals to develop and commercialise 
next-generation cell therapies to address 
significant unmet needs in oncology and 
inherited disorders. Through the use of our 
technology, efficacy is improved, patients 
receive life-saving treatments sooner, and the 
overall cost to the healthcare system is lower.

The market opportunity
Our goal is to establish the MaxCyte ExPERT™ 
platform as the standard non-viral 
cell-engineering system for the growing, 
next-generation cell-therapy market by: 

 Ò  Offering the leading technology platform 
that facilitates efficient and reproducible 
delivery of molecules;

 Ò Serving as a trusted partner to our 

customers to overcome technological 
challenges and enable previously unfeasible 
cell-engineering applications;

 Ò Enabling customers to scale production on 
our ExPERT™ platform in a GMP-compliant 
environment; and 

 Ò Mitigating regulatory risk and potentially 
expediting approval timelines, thereby 
delivering therapeutic options to patients 
faster than alternatives.

Our existing blue-chip customer base ranges 
from large-cap pharma companies, including 20 
of the top 25 companies based on 2020 global 
revenue*, to cell and gene therapy biotechnology 
companies and leading academic centres. Our 
platform has been adopted by hundreds of 
biopharma and academic customers globally.  
As of 31 December 2020, we have placed more 
than 400 of our Flow Electroporation® 
instruments worldwide.

 Ò February

 Ò May

 – Presented update at BIO CEO

 – Raised $30.5m in funding, led by Casdin Capital and 

 – Promoted Maher Masoud, Esq. to EVP and 

General Counsel

 Sofinnova Partners

 – Granted a strategic platform licence to Caribou Biosciences  

to use MaxCyte’s technology to advance its CRISPR  
gene-edited allogeneic T-cell-therapy programmes

Feb

Mar

Apr

 Ò March

May

Jun

Jul

*  Evaluate Pharma

 – Granted a strategic platform licence to Allogene Therapeutics to use 

MaxCyte’s technology to develop and advance its AlloCAR T™ 
candidates through to commercialisation

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As our performance in 2020 demonstrated, 
MaxCyte has a resilient business model based  
on strong recurring revenues. Our approach  
and impressive pipeline afford robust prospects  
for continued growth.

J. Stark Thompson, PhD
Non-Executive Chairman

Moreover, our strategic partnership model 
allows us to build collaborative relationships 
with our customers as we work together to 
bring critical cell-based medicines to the 
market. We provide our unique ExPERT™ 
platform technology, intellectual property 
and expertise to help our customers reduce 
regulatory risk and accelerate timelines, 
increase efficacy, and optimise the likelihood 
of the success for their drug candidates. 
Our licence agreements include participation 
in the potential downstream success of these 
programmes by providing for a share of 
commercial value. As of 31 December 2020, 
MaxCyte research licences have been granted 
for more than 140 partnered academic and 
industry cell-therapy programmes. Over 100 
licences have been granted for clinical use and 
more than 75 clinical programme licences have 
been granted to strategic platform licencees.  
In aggregate, MaxCyte has the potential to 
receive more than $950m in pre-commercial 
milestone payments across the clinical 
programmes currently licensed for clinical use. 

An additional out-licensing opportunity
In the first quarter of 2021, we conducted a 
strategic review of our activities related to 
CARMA®, a novel and proprietary platform 
technology for our own development of 
non-viral, human messenger RNA (mRNA)-
based, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) or 
T-cell receptor (TCR) redirected immune cell 
therapies. We decided to focus on out-
licensing the CARMA® platform manufacturing 
processes and intellectual property (IP) and 
curtail further research and development 
activities. We believe the manufacturing 
know-how, preclinical and clinical data 
amassed to-date, and IP portfolio remain 
valuable assets with significant licensing 
potential to enable clinical programmes of 
current and future partners.

Strong financial performance
MaxCyte reported another strong financial year 
in 2020, with a 21% increase in revenues over 
the previous year and gross margins of 89%. 
Our cash position was bolstered by another 
successful fundraising totalling $55.3m (before 
expenses) in February 2021, which added to 
capital generated by the fundraising completed 
in May 2020. Both raises were principally 
driven by top-tier US specialist life science 
investors. Cash and cash equivalents, together 
with short-term investments, on 31 December 
2020, was $34.8m, which does not include the 
February 2021 capital raise. 

Growth of cell-therapy partnerships
Since 2017, when we signed our first licence  
to enable next-generation engineered cell 
therapies, milestone revenue streams have 
expanded significantly. Between the start  
of 2020 and the end of January 2021, we 
forged four new partnerships — Allogene 
Therapeutics, Caribou Biosciences, 
 APEIRON and Myeloid Therapeutics,  
all of which include commercialisation 
milestones, bringing MaxCyte’s total to  
12 strategic platform licences. 

 Ò July

 Ò October

 – Granted a strategic platform licence to 
APERION Biologics to use MaxCyte’s 
technology to advance APN401, a siRNA-
based cell-therapy currently in clinical 
development for various solid tumors

 – Appointed Sarah Haecker Meeks, PhD as 

VP, Business Development

 – Appointed Steve Nardi as VP, 

Manufacturing and Engineering Operations

Aug

Sep

Oct

nov

Dec

 Ò September

 Ò December

 – Appointed Amanda L. Murphy as CFO

 – Transitioned Ron Holtz to SVP and CAO

 – Appointed Kevin Gutshall 

as VP, Corporate Business 
Development

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CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S JOINT REVIEW CONTINUED

revenue
Five-year CAGR 23%
(USD '000s)

Gross margin

20

19

18

17

16

$26,169

$21,621

$16,667

$13,985

$12,270

20

19

18

17

16

89.4%

88.4%

89.0%

89.6%

89.3%

Bolstered leadership team
In September 2020, Amanda L. Murphy, CFA, 
joined the Company as Chief Financial Officer 
having previously served as a Managing 
Director of BTIG, LLC. Prior to BTIG, 
Ms. Murphy was a Partner and Healthcare 
Analyst at William Blair & Company, focused 
on diagnostic services and life sciences. 
Ms. Murphy has specialised in gene therapy, 
gene editing and cell-therapy equity research 
for both private and established public 
healthcare companies. Concurrent with 
Ms. Murphy joining the Company, Ron Holtz, 
who had served as MaxCyte’s Chief Financial 
Officer since 2005, became Senior Vice 
President and Chief Accounting Officer.

MaxCyte also continued to bolster the 
leadership team in 2020 with a senior 
leadership promotion and appointments of 
three key vice presidents. Maher Masoud, who 
previously served as Vice President, Legal, 
was named Executive Vice President and 
General Counsel. MaxCyte’s three vice 
president hires in 2020 included Kevin 
Gutshall, Vice President, Corporate 
Development; Sarah Haecker Meeks, PhD, 
Vice President, Business Development; and 
Steve Nardi, Vice President, Manufacturing 
and Engineering Operations.

Dedication to corporate social 
responsibility
We believe our commitments extend beyond 
our goal to leverage our cell-engineering 
expertise and technology to ameliorate human 
disease. We take pride in our corporate 
social responsibility efforts and continue 
to establish and implement a framework to 
extend our health commitment to patients 
and our employees, the community and the 
environment. We look forward to continuing 
to update our investors and other key 
stakeholders on our efforts and are grateful for 
the support of our employees and partners.

2021 outlook
MaxCyte has solidified its position as the 
non-viral transfection delivery platform of 
choice for the world’s leading cellular therapy 
companies in their development of commercial 
treatments. We expect strong revenue growth 
in 2021, driven by the addition of new 
customers, new strategic partners, and our 
existing partners.

We are also confident that throughout the 
coming year we will continue to build our 
customer base and continue to secure further 
high-value licensing agreements, driving 
ongoing growth. Entering 2021, the strategic-
platform-licence pipeline is the largest that the 
Company has experienced to date.

Following the $55.3m fundraising in February 
2021, the Company is well positioned to invest 
in and expand its offering of products and 
technologies. Future investment is being 
focused on high-value expansion opportunities 
to support partners’ clinical advancements and 
commercial launches of therapies enabled  
by MaxCyte. 

Overall, the MaxCyte Board and leadership 
team continue to be optimistic for the future, 
and we look forward to providing further 
updates on our progress throughout the 
remainder of the year. 

J. Stark Thompson, PhD
Non-Executive Chairman

Doug Doerfler
Chief Executive Officer

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FOCUS ON CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 

GOvernAnCe

The MaxCyte team takes pride  
in its social responsibility efforts.

Doug Doerfler
Chief Executive Officer

We believe our commitments extend beyond 
our goal to leverage our cell-engineering 
expertise and technology to ameliorate human 
disease. We take pride in our corporate social 
responsibility efforts and continue to build and 
implement a framework to extend our health 
commitment to patients and our employees, 
the community and the environment.

Advocating for and improving patients’ lives:

 Ò More than 30 clinical trials evaluating 

next-generation cell therapies have used 
our technology and referenced our FDA 
Master File and/or Technical Files

 Ò Patients facing more than 20 different 

diseases with high unmet medical need, 
including cancer, inherited disorders, rare 
diseases and sickle cell disease, have the 
potential to benefit from our technology

Attracting and retaining a fully engaged, 
healthy and diverse workforce:

 Ò Stock option compensation and corporate 
bonus plans for all full-time employees

 Ò 401k match and a robust benefit package 

for all full-time employees, including 
subsidising 90% of employee and 
dependent healthcare premiums

 Ò Tuition reimbursement and loan 

programmes for all full-time employees

 Ò Turnover rate was 8% in 2020

Advocating for the community:

 Ò Incorporating environmentally-friendly 

materials when designing and developing 
new products (e.g., DEHP-free materials, 
use of energy-saving components and 
methods, and use of recycled materials)

 Ò Increasing the use of recycled materials and 
decreasing the use of plastics to improve 
product packaging

 Ò Reducing carbon footprint as a key 

consideration in any future manufacturing 
capacity expansion

 Ò Reducing waste and recycling resources, 

e.g., RoHS compliance for our instruments 
and battery recycling

 Ò CEO’s leadership is instrumental in 

supporting the biotechnology industry

 – Chair Emeritus of the Maryland Tech 

Council

 – Executive committee member of the 

Biotechnology Innovation Organization 
(BIO), the world’s largest advocacy 
organisation of its kind

 Ò Ongoing commitment to other advocacy 
efforts and community-based initiatives:

 – BIO’s Workforce Development, Diversity 

and Inclusion support

 – Active supporter of Montgomery County 
Economic Development Corporation 
Maryland (US)

 – Company matching donation 

programmes for local Montgomery 
County food bank during the pandemic 
and each year 

 – Annual donation campaigns to locally 

focused organisations, such as A Wider 
Circle and Toys for Tots

Minimising our environmental footprint:

 Ò Collaborating with eco-friendly suppliers  
to reduce transport time and distance

 Ò Using energy-saving processes and 
technology, eco-friendly techniques

Gender ratio 

50%

Of the MaxCyte team is female*

36%

Of MaxCyte leaders at the VP level  
and above are female *

*  As of 31 December 2020

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTSSTRATEGIC REPORT 
 
LIFE SCIENCES

Solving cell-engineering challenges for 
the world’s leading biotech and largest 
pharma companies

COnTInUeD GrOWTH In CeLL THerAPY 

Total 2020 global 
financings*  

$19.9b

First next-generation engineered  
cell therapy expected to be  
approved in**

2023/24

Genetically modified  
cell therapies in 
development** 

~700

ExPERT™ 
Enabling innovation in cell-engineering

We have spent over 20 years optimising and 
refining our cell-engineering technology to 
facilitate highly efficient and consistent delivery 
of foreign molecules into cells while 
maintaining high post-electroporation cell 
viability and functionality. Following extensive 
customer feedback from a global market 
research initiative, MaxCyte launched a  
new family of instruments and single-use 
disposables (the ExPERT™ platform) in  
2019 representing the next generation of  
the industry’s leading, clinically validated, 
electroporation technology for complex  
and scalable cellular engineering. 

The ExPERT™ family of products includes  
three separate instruments — the ATX®, STX® 
and GTX® — as well as related disposables, 
consumables and software. These products 
address specific needs in the cell-therapy and 
drug discovery and development markets.  
We provide our customers with a single, 
integrated platform as they seek to discover, 
develop and manufacture safer, more targeted 
and increasingly complex cell-based therapies 
in compliance with current good manufacturing 
processes, or cGMP. By delivering high 
transfection efficiency with enhanced 
functionality, the ExPERT™ platform delivers 
the high-end performance that we believe is 
essential to enabling the next wave of 
biological and cellular therapeutics.

Cumulative total of 
instruments placed  
for cell therapy and  
drug discovery

400+

*  Alliance for Regenerative Medicine
** Evaluate Pharma

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GOvernAnCe

We believe in the power of 
reprogramming cells to create 
therapies that revolutionise medical 
treatment and ultimately save lives.

Doug Doerfler
Chief Executive Officer

ENABLING CELL-THERAPY
Ground-breaking technology sets the foundation 

The MaxCyte offering to partners is driven by 
ground-breaking technology. We work closely 
with our partners all along the pathway to 
achieve clinical and commercial success. 
It begins with our proprietary ExPERT™ 
platform and our Flow Electroporation® 
technology, which allow molecules to be 
gently, consistently, and repeatably inserted 
into cells for specific purposes. Based on the 
medical problem being solved, scientists 
efficiently engineer human cells for maximum 
potency and efficacy. With the ExPERT™ 
platform, we meet and support the unique 
needs of each partner as they develop 
therapies from the research stage to 
commercialisation to transform patient lives.

MaxCyte has established itself as a world 
leader in non-viral cell-engineering – offering a 
rapid, safe and clinically-focused means of 
creating the next generation of cell-based 
therapies. The Company’s leadership in this 
field has and continues to be demonstrated 
year after year through collaborations, 
research agreements and partnerships  
with leading pharmaceutical and biotech 
companies as well as research institutions.

Partnering with cell-therapy innovators
Our ExPERT™ technology platform launch 
has been particularly impactful in supporting 
our biopharmaceutical licensing partners’ 
advanced cell-therapy goals of improving 
efficacy, reducing time to treatment, and 
lowering costs to the healthcare system. 
A hallmark of these strategic platform 
licences is our ability to secure downstream 
programme-related pre-commercial milestone 
payments and, in most cases, sales-based 

commercial payments, in addition to the 
annual license fees on instruments and 
revenue from sales of our proprietary  
single-use disposables. 

We have continued to be successful in 
establishing strategic partnerships with leading 
cell-therapy developers as they work to bring 
next-generation cell therapies into and through 
the clinic and advance those candidates to 
potential commercialisation. In 2020, we 
signed strategic platform licences with three 
additional cell-therapy developers – Allogene 
Therapeutics, Aperion Biologics and Caribou 
Biosciences – and a fourth with Myeloid 
Therapeutics was signed in January 2021. 
These recent licences add to the five signed in 
2019 for a total of 12 since 2017. 

We aim to build a large, diversified portfolio of 
partnerships that enables us to participate in 
the economics of the near- and long-term 
success of our partners’ drug candidates. We 
believe this model allows us to establish a large 
and long-term portfolio of potential 

pre-commercial and post-commercial revenue 
streams that mirrors the industry’s diverse 
cell-therapy pipeline.

Using MaxCyte technology, our partners are 
exploring new methods of treatment for 
leukaemias, solid tumour cancers and genetic 
disorders, such as sickle-cell disease, as well 
as new approaches for patients suffering from 
autoimmune diseases. We are proud of our 
partnerships with industry-leading companies 
that are advancing new drugs, including 
cell-based therapies for patients with high 
unmet medical needs. 

Driving the future of cell-engineering
There continues to be notable progress in 
next-generation cell therapies with a number 
of companies now entering later-stage clinical 
trials, making potential commercialisation a 
possibility in the foreseeable future. With the 
ExPERT™ platform, we meet and support the 
unique needs of each of our partners as they 
develop therapies from the research stage to 
commercialisation to transform patient lives.

Global life sciences venture financings increased by* 

36.5%

  (2019–2020)

20

19

18

*  Alliance for Regenerative Medicine

$5.6b

$4.1b

$3.1b

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTSSTRATEGIC REPORTLIFE SCIENCES CONTINUED

We are well positioned to 
address the rapidly 
growing opportunity of 
~700 genetically-modified 
cell therapies.*

*  Evaluate Pharma

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GOvernAnCe

Of our 12 strategic platform 
licences, over 15% of 
programmes licensed for clinical 
use are now in the clinic – an 
increase of 50% from 2019 and 
200% from 2018. We estimate 
MaxCyte has captured 
approximately 40 to 55% of US 
clinical programmes utilising  
non-viral delivery in engineered 
cell-therapy to treat oncology 
and inherited disorders.

validated multi-million-dollar commercial 
licence milestone opportunities

 Ò MaxCyte’s strategic platform licences with 
12 biopharma companies developing 
next-generation cell-therapy medicines

 Ò Strategic platform licences announced to 
date could bring more than $950m in 
pre-commercial milestone payments 

Diversified exposure to the leading 
developments in cell-therapy enabling 
immuno-oncology, gene-editing and 
regenerative medicine

Indications include:

 Ò Paediatric 
leukaemia

 Ò Hodgkin’s 
lymphoma

 Ò Triple negative 
breast cancer

 Ò AML

 Ò Blood cancers

 Ò Chronic 

granulomatous 
disease

 Ò Pulmonary arterial 

 Ò Pancreatic cancer

hypertension

 Ò Neuroblastoma 

 Ò HIV

The diversity of cell types, sources and 
indications represented in the programmes of 
MaxCyte’s partners is in line with the overall 
market. This diversity de-risks MaxCyte’s 
opportunity, fostering strategic-programme-
licence revenues regardless of which 
approaches advance over the next five years.

INDICATIONS
Overall Cell Therapy Market

6%

4%

14%

7%

7%

14%

11%

9%

31%

22%

MaxCyte
Partners

11%

18%

15%

4%

4%

4%

2%

3%

1%

13%

LEADERS IN DRUG DISCOVERY  
AND BIOMANUFACTURING

Overview
MaxCyte is helping the most innovative 
pharma and biotech companies to reach 
their discovery, development, and 
manufacturing goals. The unique enabling 
capabilities of our technology in these 
applications are evidenced by our broad 
global customer base in drug discovery  
and development, which includes  
20 of the top 25 and all of the top ten 
pharmaceutical companies based on  
2020 global revenue*, to smaller 
cell-therapy biotechnology companies  
and academic centres focused on 
translational research. Our platform has 
been adopted by hundreds of 
biopharmaceutical and translational 
academic customers globally.

Drug discovery and 
development market

 Ò Significant untapped market

 Ò Strong recurring revenue element

 Ò Consistent high margins

Multiple myeloma

NHL

AML/ALL

Heme – other

Pancreatic

Lung

Ovarian

Solid tumor – other

Inherited disease

Other

Projected gene-modified 
cell-therapy global product 
sales*

$10.8b

*  Evaluate Pharma

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTSSTRATEGIC REPORTFINANCIAL REVIEW

Our sales and application scientist teams were  
able to rapidly shift to a virtual support model — 
keeping robust momentum in our pipeline.

Amanda L. Murphy
Chief Financial Officer

Double-digit revenue growth continues

The Company reported revenues of 
$26.2m in 2020, representing a 21% 
increase over the previous year and 
including 15% growth in the second 
half of 2020 compared to the second 
half of 2019. Revenue growth was 
fuelled by recurring high-margin 
revenues from both instrument leases 
and disposable sales in cell-therapy 
and strong growth in milestones as 
partners progressed their clinical 
programmes. As a result, our 2020 
growth extended our run of double-‐
digit revenue growth, yielding a 
five-year compound average revenue 
growth rate of 23% for the period 
from 2016 to 2020.

Gross margins remained stable at 89%  
and EBITDA loss in 2020 remained in line  
with expectations at $7.6m.

EBITDA before CARMA® expenses and 
non-cash stock-based compensation 
was $2.9m. 

This significant improvement over prior years 
(2019 EBITDA before CARMA® investment and 
non-cash stock-based compensation was 
$1.3m) was driven by strong overall revenue 
growth, particularly from milestone payments, 
which have no associated costs, and 
pandemic-driven cost reductions, particularly 
in travel and marketing expenses.

For 2021, we expect that the winding  
down of CARMA® activities will contribute 
approximately $4m to operating expenses  
in the first half of the year.

Operating expenses in 2020 increased to 
$34.5m, which includes CARMA® programme 
expenses of $11.1m (2019: $11.7m), compared 
to a total of $31.5m of operating expenses  
in 2019. Exclusive of CARMA®, operating 
expenses increased 20% (compared to 21% 
revenue growth) to $23.8m compared to 
$19.8m in 2019 as the Company continued  
to make investments to grow the business, 
including hiring new talent and internal 
promotions. Operating expenses were 
impacted by adjustments the Company made 
to its operating, sales and marketing practices 
to respond to and mitigate the effects of COVID-
related restrictions. These adjustments resulted 
in significant reductions in planned spending 
which may not recur in future periods.

Key metrics

Revenue
Gross margin 
CARMA® investment

Total operating expenses

EBITDA before CARMA® investment*
Net loss before CARMA® investment

Total assets
Cash and cash equivalents, including
short-term investments (31 Dec)

*  Excluding associated non-cash stock-based compensation of $1.5m in 2019 and $2.1m in 2020, respectively.

2020

2019

% Change

 $26.2m
 89%
 $11.1m

 $34.5m

 $2.9m
 ($0.7m)

 $21.6m
 88%
 $11.7m

 $31.5m

 $1.3m
 ($1.2m)

 $51.8m

 $30.0m

 21%
 1%
 (5%)

 9%

 121%
 (42%)

 73%

 $34.8m

 $16.7m

 108%

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At year-end 2020, total assets were $51.8m, 
compared to $30.0m in 2019. The increase  
in total assets was primarily due to the May  
2020 capital raise as well as increases in 
capital invested in fixed assets and 
disposables inventory.

Cash and cash equivalents, including 
short-term investments, totalled $34.8m at 
31 December 2020, compared to $16.7m at 
the end of 2019. The Company raised $55.3m 
of gross proceeds (before expenses) from a 
private placement of common stock in 
February 2021 and in March 2021 repaid in full 
the Company’s $5.0m term loan that had been 
entered into in 2019.

 Ò 2020 revenues increased 21% year over 

year, despite the challenges of the 
worldwide COVID-19 pandemic

 – Revenue growth was fuelled by recurring 

high-margin revenues from both 
instrument leases and disposable sales 
in cell-therapy, which was further 
accelerated by milestone payments  
from progression of our partners’  
clinical programmes 

 – H2 2020 revenue grew approximately 
15% to $15.3m (H2 2019: $13.2m)  
despite the impact of the pandemic, 
which affected existing and potential 
customers’ operations

 Ò Significant medium-and long-term upside 
from potential pre-commercial milestone 
payments resulting from 12 strategic 
platform licences 

 – Potential pre-commercial milestones 

from these partnerships now represent 
more than $950m in the aggregate

 –  Partnership agreements provide  

licences for more than 140 therapeutic 
programmes, of which more than 100  
are licensed for clinical use and more 
than 75 of them are licensed to  
strategic platform licencees

 Ò Five-year revenue (2016–2020) 

compounded annual growth rate  
(CAGR) 23%

 Ò EBITDA before CARMA® expenses grew 
121% to $2.9m driven primarily by higher 
milestone revenues and pandemic-related 
cost reductions, especially in travel and 
marketing. Gross margins improved by  
100 basis points, primarily attributable to 
increased milestone revenue

 Ò Aggregate gross proceeds of $85.9m 
(before expenses) raised in two private 
placements completed in May 2020 
($30.5m led by Casdin Capital and 
Sofinnova Partners) and February 2021 
($55.3m with a mix of new and existing 
crossover investors led by D1 Capital 
Partners, Funds and accounts advised by  
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., ArrowMark 
Partners, Baron Capital Group and First 
Light Asset Management with Casdin 
Capital and Sofinnova Partners) 

 Ò Cash, cash equivalents and short-term 

investments as of 31 December 2020 were 
$34.8m, excluding the $55.3m gross 
proceeds raised from the private placement 
in February 2021

We look forward to another robust year in  
2021 as our partners continue to bring 
programmes into and through the clinic while 
burgeoning investment in next-generation  
cell therapies yields new customer potential for 
MaxCyte. We are thankful to our shareholder 
base and our partners for their ongoing 
support as well as the tireless efforts of our 
employees to contribute to making better 
medicines.

Amanda L. Murphy
Chief Financial Officer

20 April 2021

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTSSTRATEGIC REPORTPRINCIPAL RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES

The risks discussed below are: (i) the principal risks and uncertainties relevant to MaxCyte’s business, financial condition 
and results of operations that may affect the Company’s performance and ability to achieve its objectives; and (ii) those 
that the Company believes could cause its actual results to differ materially from expected or historical results.

Legal, regulatory 
and litigation

The Company must adapt to and comply with a range of laws and 
regulations. These requirements apply to research and 
development, manufacturing, testing, approval, distribution, sales 
and marketing of various products, including potential 
biopharmaceutical products. The requirements impact the value of 
such products, the time required to reach the market or clinic and 
the likelihood of doing so successfully.

Similarly, MaxCyte’s business exposes it to litigation and 
government investigations, including but not limited to product 
liability litigation, patent and antitrust litigation and sales and 
marketing litigation. Litigation and government investigations, 
including related provisions the Company may make for potential 
unfavourable outcomes and/or increased related costs, could 
materially and adversely affect the Company’s financial results. 

Further, the Company continues to face uncertainties related to the 
post-Brexit transition period. Access to capital in the European 
markets could be affected and the Company could have exposure 
to changes in laws and regulations in the United Kingdom and 
other parts of Europe in which it generates revenue and maintains 
employees.

Competition and 
technological 
change

The Company’s business faces competition from a range of 
pharmaceutical, biotechnology and transfection technology companies, 
many of which are large, multinational companies with extensive 
resources. In addition, technological advancements and changes  
could overtake products being offered or developed by the Company.

The results of such competition and change may have a material 
adverse effect on the Company’s financial results. Furthermore, 
research and discoveries by others may result in medical insights or 
breakthroughs that render the Company’s products less 
competitive or even obsolete.

Intellectual 
property

The Company’s success and ability to compete effectively are, in 
large part, dependent on its ability to protect, enforce, maintain and 
leverage its proprietary technologies and products and associated 
intellectual property rights. 

There can be no assurance that the scope of the Company’s 
patents provide or will continue to provide the Company with a 
sufficiently strong competitive advantage covering all its products 
and technologies, or potentially competing technologies.

The Company may incur substantial costs as a result of disputes 
with third parties relating to the infringement or protection of 
intellectual property.

Product 
development risk

The development of drugs and technologies is subject to numerous 
external influences including economic and regulatory environments 
that are outside of the Company’s control.

The impacts of the risks from partnered cell-therapy programmes in 
current and future preclinical and clinical research trials involving 
patients may include harm to human subjects, reputational damage, 
government investigation, legal proceedings brought by 
governmental and private plaintiffs (product liability suits and claims 
for damages), and regulatory action such as fines, penalties or loss 
of product authorisation. Any of these consequences could 
materially and adversely affect financial results.

To date, the Company has also relied on copyright, trademark and 
trade secret laws, regulatory laws regarding its FDA Master File, as 
well as confidentiality procedures, non-compete and/or work for 
hire invention assignment agreements and licensing arrangements 
with its employees, consultants, customers and vendors to 
establish and protect its rights to its technology and to control the 
access to and distribution of its technology. Despite these 
precautions, it may be possible for a third party to copy, replicate or 
otherwise obtain and use for the benefit of third parties its 
technology or confidential information without authorisation.

The Company’s patents cover a limited set of countries. There can 
be no assurance that all patent rights material to the Company’s 
success are, or will be, in place in all jurisdictions necessary to the 
successful conduct of the Company’s business.

The Company’s products and/or the products of others who use 
the Company’s technology also may not develop into validated 
products that are safe and effective or that are commercially viable. 
Expenses associated with drug development efforts, including 
preclinical research and human clinical trials, are inherently difficult 
to predict and may be materially different to the Company’s 
budgets or expectations.

Clinical and therapeutic products resulting from MaxCyte’s 
customers’ or partnered programmes research and development 
efforts may not receive or continue to maintain regulatory 
approvals. Even if the products developed by customers or through 
partnered programmes are approved, they may still face 
subsequent regulatory or commercialisation difficulties.

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revenue risk 

MaxCyte relies on sales and licensing of its ATx®, GTx®, STx® and 
VLXTM instruments, as well as sales of single-use disposable 
processing assemblies, for nearly all of its revenue. The Company 
may be unable to sell or license its instruments to new customers 
and existing customers may cease or reduce their utilisation of the 
Company’s instruments or fail to renew licences of the Company’s 
instruments.

The Company is generally dependent on third parties for the 
development and commercialisation of cell-based therapeutics 
programmes and the Company has little, if any, control over their 
partners’ strategies to develop and commercialise those cell-based 
therapies. In addition, there can be no assurance that any company 
that enters into agreements with the Company will not pursue 
alternative technologies.

The Company’s success is, in part, dependent on future 
commercial licensing or collaboration arrangements and on similar 
arrangements for future therapeutic products and platforms in 
development that have not yet been partnered. There can be no 
assurance that any of the therapeutic products or platforms that 
the Company intends to develop or the therapeutics that are being 
or might be developed by its partners using MaxCyte technology 
will continue to advance through development or be successfully 
developed into any commercially viable products.

Operational risks

The Company is at an early stage of operations, has consistently 
incurred net losses and faces operating risks that include:
 Ò Ability to achieve its business strategy.
 Ò Ability to recruit and retain skilled personnel and dependence  

on key personnel.

 Ò Dependency on a limited number of customers, suppliers, 

collaborators and partners.
 Ò Failure of information systems.
 Ò External economic conditions.
 Ò Dependency on third-party suppliers for the products or 

 Ò Ability to adequately manage rapid growth in personnel  

components of the products that it sells.

and operations.

 Ò Unexpected facility shutdowns or inadequate disaster  

recovery procedures.

external/
environmental risk

Pervasive public health issues, including epidemics or disease 
outbreaks could adversely impact business. With the uncertainty of 
the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Company faces unique and 
unpredictable risks.

Further, the Company may face uncertainties related to the 
progression and outcome of the COVID-19 global pandemic. 
Access to capital in the global markets could be adversely affected 
and the Company could have exposure to changes in regulations, 
delays in decision-making, and financing activities. 

The extent to which the coronavirus impacts operations will depend 
on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be 
predicted with confidence, including the duration of the outbreak, 
new information which may emerge concerning the severity of the 
coronavirus and the actions of governments, businesses or 
individuals to respond to the coronavirus or treat its impact, among 
others. In particular, the continued spread of the coronavirus globally 
could adversely impact operations, including among others, sales, 
operations, and clinical trials and manufacturing and supply chain, 
and could have an adverse impact on business and financial results.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTSSTRATEGIC REPORTLEADERSHIP TEAM

Strength in our leadership

MaxCyte bolstered 
its senior 
management team 
with several key 
appointments and 
a leadership 
promotion.

Doug Doerfler
Chief Executive Officer

James Brady, PhD

Doug Doerfler

Vice President, Technical Applications  
and Customer Support

President and Chief Executive Officer 

See Board of Directors for details  
on page 20.

Prior to joining MaxCyte in 2004, Dr. Brady was 
a Senior Scientist at Genetic Therapy, Inc.,  
a Novartis subsidiary, where he worked on 
lentiviral-based gene therapy treatments. 
Previously, he worked at MetaMorphix, Inc., 
and was a postdoctoral fellow at the National 
Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health. 
Dr. Brady received a BS degree in biology from 
the College of William and Mary, a PhD in 
genetics from Indiana University and an MBA 
from Johns Hopkins University.

Sarah Haecker Meeks, PhD

Amanda L. Murphy

Vice President, Business Development

Chief Financial Officer

Before joining MaxCyte, Dr. Meeks served as 
Vice President of Business Development at 
Synpromics (now part of AskBio) where she 
established a leading market position for the 
company, including partnerships with leading 
gene therapy companies, and led broad 
technology education and adoption initiatives. 
Prior to her work at Synpromics, she was the 
Chief Scientific Officer at Adjuvant Partners. 
She received a PhD in biochemistry, molecular 
biology and biophysics, with a minor in 
bioethics, from the University of Minnesota and 
completed postdoctoral work in the University 
of Pennsylvania Gene Therapy Program and 
Center for Technology Transfer with continued 
education in the Wharton MBA Program.

Ms. Murphy joined MaxCyte as Chief Financial 
Officer in 2020. Before joining MaxCyte, 
Ms. Murphy, a senior equity analyst focused on 
the biotechnology industry, served as Managing 
Director of BTIG, LLC. She has specialised in gene 
therapy, gene editing and cell-therapy for both 
burgeoning private and established public 
healthcare companies. Prior to BTIG, she was a 
Partner and Healthcare Analyst at William Blair & 
Company, focused on diagnostic services and life 
sciences. Previously, Ms. Murphy was a Business 
Analyst at Caremark and a Senior Consultant 
within the Strategy Consulting division at 
PricewaterhouseCoopers. She received a BS in 
biology from Boston College’s Honors Program, 
and an MBA in finance, accounting and 
economics from the Kellogg Graduate School  
of Management at Northwestern University.

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Kevin Gutshall

ron Holtz

Vice President, Corporate Business 
Development

Senior Vice President and  
Chief Accounting Officer

Maher Masoud

Executive Vice President  
and General Counsel

See Board of Directors for details  
on page 20.

Mr. Gutshall brings extensive cell and biological 
therapy knowledge gained from 20 years of 
experience to his role as MaxCyte’s Vice 
President of Corporate Development. Most 
recently, he served as Merck KGaA’s Director 
of Global Corporate Business Development 
and Mergers and Acquisitions. Previously,  
Mr. Gutshall was the Head of Marketing and 
Business Development for the Biologics 
Manufacturing Platform at Sigma-Aldrich.  
In addition, he is the co-inventor of several 
patents as well as the co-author of several 
publications and presentations.

Mr. Masoud has 20+ years of experience in the 
biopharmaceutical industry, including 15 years 
as an attorney and general counsel. He has 
served as: Assistant General Counsel and 
Corporate Secretary for Wellstat Management 
Company; co-founding partner of Rossi/
Masoud LLC; and Corporate Attorney at 
Human Genome Sciences, Inc. A member of 
the Maryland State Bar, Mr. Masoud holds a JD 
from Michigan State University College of Law, 
and a BS in cell and molecular biology genetics 
from the University of Maryland.

Steve nardi

Thomas M. ross

Kathryn Wekselman

Vice President, Manufacturing and 
Engineering Operations

Before joining MaxCyte, Mr. Nardi served as 
Vice President of Worldwide Manufacturing at 
Iradimed Corporation where he introduced lean 
manufacturing principles, and improved 
transparency, cost control and accountability. 
Prior to his work at Iradimed, Mr. Nardi was the 
Senior Manager of Manufacturing and 
Engineering at Haemonetics Corporation.  
He received both a BS in science, engineering 
and technology and an MS in technology 
commercialization at Northeastern University.

Executive Vice President, Global Sales 

Vice President, Regulatory 

Mr. Ross has extensive experience in 
commercial operations and 30+ years of 
successful life sciences and clinical diagnostics 
sales and marketing leadership. Most recently, 
he was SVP of Commercial Operations at 
OpGen. He also served as Chief Commercial 
Officer at Predictive BioScience and VP of 
North America Medical Diagnostics Sales at 
Qiagen/Digene Corporation. He previously held 
senior leadership roles in Manufacturing 
Operations at Life Technologies, Inc. and 
Cambrex. Mr. Ross holds a BA in business 
administration from The Citadel.

Dr. Wekselman is a senior drug development 
expert with extensive experience in clinical 
protocol development/execution and 
interactions with regulatory authorities. She has 
10+ years of CRO experience, and nine years 
at Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals. She 
earned her BSN and PhD in nursing from the 
University of Cincinnati. She had 10 years of 
clinical and academic nursing experience 
before joining the biopharma industry. She has 
authored 25+ journal articles/book chapters 
and has presented 30+ posters, conference 
sessions, guest lectures and professional 
education seminars.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTSSTRATEGIC REPORTBOARD OF DIRECTORS

J. Stark Thompson, PhD

Will Brooke

Non-Executive Chairman 

Non-Executive Director 

Doug Doerfler

President and  
Chief Executive Officer

richard Douglas, PhD

Non-Executive Director 

Dr. Thompson has nearly five 
decades of corporate leadership 
and business management 
experience, dating back to when he 
joined the DuPont Company in 
1967. From 1988 until 2000, 
Dr. Thompson served as President, 
CEO and board member of Life 
Technologies, Inc. Dr. Thompson 
has served on and led various 
boards of directors at companies 
including Gene Logic, Inc. and 
Luminex Corporation. He received 
his BS from Muskingum University, 
and his MSc and PhD in 
physiological chemistry from Ohio 
State University.

Mr. Brooke is a Limited Partner of 
Harbert Management Corporation 
(HMC), which he co-founded in 
1993. He has been advising and 
investing in early-stage and growth 
companies for 20+ years, and 
served on the boards of numerous 
pharmaceutical and medical 
equipment companies. He 
presently serves as a board 
member of KPX, LLC, an ESG 
advisory firm. Mr. Brooke has 
previously served as HMC’s 
General Counsel, its Chief 
Operating Officer, and as Chairman 
of its Real Estate Services 
subsidiary. Prior to joining HMC, Mr. 
Brooke practised law for a decade. 
He holds a JD and a BS, both from 
the University of Alabama.

Mr. Doerfler has 35+ years of vast 
experience in biotechnology 
product and company 
development, commercialisation 
and international financing. He was 
a founder of MaxCyte in July 1998. 
Previously, he was President, CEO 
and a director of Immunicon 
Corporation. He also held various 
executive positions with Life 
Technologies, Inc. (now Thermo 
Fisher). Mr. Doerfler is an active life 
sciences industry advocate, serving 
as Chair Emeritus of the Maryland 
Tech Council and on the executive 
committee of the Biotechnology 
Innovation Organization. 

Dr. Douglas formerly served as the 
SVP of Corporate Development and 
Corporate Officer at Genzyme 
Corporation from 1989 until 2011. 
There, he led numerous 
acquisitions, licences, financings, 
joint ventures, and strategic 
alliances. He had previously held 
scientific and corporate 
development roles at Integrated 
Genetics. He is currently an adviser 
to RedSky Partners, Chairman of 
the Board of Aldeyra Therapeutics, 
and a director of Novavax Inc., and 
Chairman of the National Advisory 
Board of the Office of Technology 
Transfer at the University of 
Michigan. Dr. Douglas received a 
PhD in Biochemistry from the 
University of California, Berkeley, 
and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at 
California Institute of Technology in 
Leroy Hood’s laboratory. He has a 
BS degree in Chemistry from the 
University of Michigan.

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Stan erck

Non-Executive Director 

Mr. Erck is President and CEO, and 
director of Novavax Corporation. 
His 35 years of management 
experience in the healthcare and 
biotechnology industry include 
positions at Baxter International and 
Integrated Genetics, and as CEO 
and director of Procept and Iomai. 
In addition to successfully 
negotiating major alliances with 
biopharmaceutical companies and 
bringing products into clinical trials, 
he has managed the process of 
developing companies from private 
funding through to IPO. Mr. Erck 
received his BS from the University 
of Illinois and an MBA from the 
University of Chicago.

ron Holtz

John Johnston

Art Mandell

Senior Vice President and  
Chief Accounting Officer

Mr. Holtz joined MaxCyte in 2005. 
Previously, he had served as the 
CFO of both public and private 
companies and has raised more 
than $150m in debt and equity 
capital. He also had previous 
experience with Ernst & Young 
LLP’s Financial Advisory Services 
Group. He earned an MBA in 
finance from the University of 
Maryland, a BS in mathematics 
from the University of Wisconsin, 
and is a Certified Public 
Accountant.

Non-Executive Director 

Non-Executive Director 

After a career spanning 30+ years 
in the city of London, Mr. Johnston 
held non-executive positions in a 
wide range of industries including 
pharmaceutical, medical, energy 
and international hospitality. 
Previously, he was Managing 
Director of Institutional Sales at 
Nomura Code and Director of Sales 
and Trading at Seymour Pierce. 
Prior to this, he spent 26 years as a 
fund manager, managing a variety 
of asset classes including UK 
general equities, Japanese equities 
and technology funds. The last 15 
years of his fund management 
career were focused almost 
exclusively on small cap and  
AIM stocks.

Mr. Mandell is a senior healthcare 
executive with 30+ years of 
experience leading companies, 
executing large corporate and 
business development deals, and 
developing and commercialising 
products. He served as President 
and COO of Prestwick 
Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Prior to 
Prestwick, Mr. Mandell was 
President, CEO, and a director of 
Cellective Therapeutics, Inc. 
(acquired by Astra Zeneca/
MedImmune). Before Cellective, Mr. 
Mandell served as President, CEO, 
and director of Stemron 
Corporation, and as SVP and CBO 
of Human Genome Sciences, Inc. 
Mr. Mandell began his healthcare 
career at Syntex Pharmaceutical 
Corporation.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTSSTRATEGIC REPORTDIRECTORS’ REPORT

The Directors of the Company present 
their Report and audited Financial 
Statements for the year ended 
31 December 2020.

employee involvement
The Company’s policy is to encourage employee 
involvement at all levels, as it believes that this 
is essential for the success of the business.

Principal activity
MaxCyte (LSE: MXCT, MXCN) is a global 
clinical-stage cell-based therapies and life 
sciences company applying its proprietary 
cell-engineering technology to help patients 
with high unmet medical needs in a broad range 
of conditions. Through its Life Sciences 
business, the Company leverages its Flow 
Electroporation® technology and ExPERT™ 
platform to enable its partners across the 
biopharmaceutical industry to advance the 
development of innovative medicines, 
particularly in cell-therapy, including gene-
editing and immuno-oncology. MaxCyte also 
sells its Flow Electroporation® instruments and 
processing assemblies for drug discovery and 
development in applications including 
cell-based assays for drug screening, rapid 
scalable protein production, biomanufacturing 
and stable cell line development. 

The Company has placed its cutting-edge Flow 
Electroporation® technology instruments 
worldwide, including with all of the top ten 
global biopharmaceutical companies, and has 
more than 140 partnered programme licences 
including more than 100 licensed for clinical 
use. With its robust technology, MaxCyte 
enables its partners to unlock the full potential 
of their products.

MaxCyte’s unique technology enables the 
engineering of nearly all cell types, including 
human primary cells and cells for 
biomanufacturing, with any molecule, at any 
scale. It also provides for a high degree of 
consistency, unparalleled scalability and minimal 
cell disturbance, thereby facilitating rapid, 
large-scale, clinical and commercial-grade 
cell-engineering in a non-viral system and with 
low toxicity concerns.

The Company’s cell-engineering technology 
has an established regulatory path for 
supporting cell-based therapies, having been 
referenced in regulatory submissions by 
cell-therapy companies around the world.

Dividends
The Directors do not recommend the payment 
of a dividend currently.

Directors and their interests
The Directors, as of the date of this report,  
are as follows:

Executive

 Ò Doug Doerfler, President and Chief 

Executive Officer

 Ò Ron Holtz, Senior Vice President and  

Chief Accounting Officer

Board Member

J. Stark Thompson

Will Brooke

Doug Doerfler

Richard Douglas

Stan Erck

Ron Holtz

John Johnston

Art Mandell

Non-Executive

 Ò J. Stark Thompson, PhD, Chairman

 Ò Will Brooke

 Ò Stan Erck

 Ò John Johnston

 Ò Art Mandell

 Ò Richard Douglas, PhD

Board & 
Committee 
Meetings Held 
During 2020*

Board & 
Committee 
Meetings 
Attended in 2020

Number of 
External 
Corporate 
Appointments 
Held During 2020

17

19

19

9

17

19

11

11

17

19

19

9

17

19

11

11

0

1

0

2

1

0

1

0

*  Number Board meetings plus Committee meetings of which the Director was a member, required attendee or 

invited to attend.

Advisers
Nominated adviser and broker
Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited,  
One New Change,  
London EC4M 9AF

Joint Corporate Broker
Numis Securities Limited,
The London Stock Exchange Building,
10 Paternoster Square,
London EC4M 7LT

Joint Corporate Broker
Stifel Niolaus Europe Limited,
150 Cheapside,
London EC2V 6ET

Auditors
CohnReznick LLP, 
800 Towers Crescent Drive, Suite 1000,
Tysons, Virginia, U.S.A.
CohnReznick has expressed willingness to 
continue in office as auditor.

Registrars
Link Asset Services,
The Registry, 
34 Beckham Road,
Beckenham, 
Kent BR3 4TU

Counsel
Travers Smith LLP,
10 Snow Hill,
London EC1A 2AL

Doug Doerfler
Executive Director, President and Chief 
Executive Officer

This report was approved by the Board on 
20 April 2021.

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REPORT

GOvernAnCe

MaxCyte is committed to high standards 
of corporate governance.

J. Stark Thompson, PhD
Non-Executive Chairman

Principles of good corporate governance
The Directors are committed to maintaining 
high standards of corporate governance and, 
as an AIM-listed Company, and as appropriate 
for a company located in the US with its size 
and stage of development, MaxCyte adopts 
the Quoted Companies Alliance Corporate 
Governance Code (the QCA Code) as set forth 
on www.maxcyte.com. The underlying 
principle of the QCA Code is that “the purpose 
of good corporate governance is to ensure that 
the company is managed in an efficient, 
effective and entrepreneurial manner for the 
benefit of all shareholders over the longer 
term.” Our corporate governance is based on 
the leadership of our Board for the entire 
Company, and we believe it is essential to 
our ability to deliver our business strategy.

The Company has adopted an appropriate 
share dealing code in order to comply with Rule 
21 of the AIM Rules for Companies relating to 
Directors and applicable employees dealing in 
the Company’s securities. The Company takes 
all reasonable steps to ensure compliance with 
such by its Directors and employees.

As the Company grows, it will regularly review 
the extent and appropriateness of its corporate 
governance practices and procedures.

As our business grows, the Company and 
Board are committed to managing our growth 
while focusing on environmental, social and 
governance (ESG) issues. We are working 
towards developing our own ESG policy, part 
of which, as applicable and as practicable, 
will focus on meeting the UN’s Sustainable 
Development Goals (SDGs). We currently 
have a number of existing policies in place 
which are linked to broader ESG and SDG 
policies, such as: Anti-Bribery and Corruption 
Policy; Standards of Conduct and Business 
Ethics; Conflicts of Interest, EEO and 
Anti- Harassment; and Employee Sick 
and Safe Leave.

Application of principles of the 
QCA Code
Board of Directors
The Board comprises six Non-Executive 
Directors (including the Chairman) and two 
Executive Directors. Since immediately before 
the 2016 AIM IPO, the Board has consisted of 
a Non-Executive Chairman, two Executive 
Directors and four Non-Executive Directors. 
With the appointment of a Non-Executive 
Director on 12 February 2018, there are now 
six Non-Executive Directors. All of the 
Non-Executive Directors are considered  
to be independent.

All Directors receive regular and timely 
information about the Company’s operational 
and financial performance. Formal Board 
meetings are scheduled throughout each 
financial year. A formal agenda and the 
accompanying Board papers are circulated in 
advance of each meeting.

All the Directors commit the time necessary to 
fulfil their roles at the Company.

The Board is responsible for overall Company 
strategy, acquisition and divestment policy, 
approval of the budget, approval of significant 
borrowing and major capital expenditure 
projects, and consideration of significant 
operational and financial matters. The Board 
monitors the exposure to key business risks 
and reviews the progress of the Company 
towards achievement of its strategic goals, 
budgets and forecasts. The Board oversees 
compliance with relevant legislation and 
regulations, including European Economic 
Area Market Abuse Regulations and the QCA 
Code. The Board also considers employee 
issues and key appointments. This is achieved 
by the close involvement of the Executive 
Directors in the day-to-day running of the 
business and by regular reports submitted to 
and considered at meetings of the Board and 
its committees.

To ensure appropriate oversight of Board 
activities, in February 2021, the Board 
appointed Richard Douglas as its lead 
independent director to: i) work with the Chief 
Executive Officer in planning of Board 
meetings; (ii) preside over Board meetings to 
ensure appropriate time for exchange of 
communications; (iii) communicate with each 
member of the Board on significant matters as 

needed; (iv) if necessary, commence special 
working sessions of the Board outside of 
regularly scheduled Board meetings; and (v) 
along with the Chairman of the Board, monitor 
the Nominating Committee’s progress on 
recommendations of new Board members.

The Board receives training from the EVP, 
General Counsel, as required, in light of any 
changes to the law or best corporate 
governance. In particular, the Board receives 
regular training on the Company’s obligations, 
and the individual responsibilities of each 
Director, under the European Union Market 
Abuse Regulation.

The Board ensures it has appropriate expertise 
to meet the needs of the Company and the 
Board evaluates its performance on an 
ongoing basis. 

Developing the Company’s employees, in 
preparation for future advancement and 
making sure qualified employees are actively 
engaged by the Company, is a key focus of the 
Executive Directors, with input from the 
Nominations Committee, Compensation 
Committee and the Board as a whole,  
as appropriate.

The Company’s corporate governance is 
based on the leadership of our Board. The 
Executive Directors regularly monitor the 
Company’s cultural environment and seek to 
address any concerns that may arise.

The Board considers employee compensation, 
key appointments and other employee issues. 
This is achieved by the close involvement of 
the Executive Directors in the day-to-day 
running of the business and by regular 
reporting at meetings of the Board  
and its committees.

The Board has an Audit Committee, a 
Compensation Committee and a Nominations 
Committee. Details of the composition and 
activities of the Audit Committee and 
Compensation Committee are found in their 
respective reports on pages 28 and 25 of 
this Annual Report.

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The members of the Nominations Committee 
are Doug Doerfler, Stan Erck and Art Mandell, 
who is the Chair of the committee. The 
responsibilities of the committee include:

 Ò Reviewing the structure, size and 
composition of the Board, and 
recommending changes to the Board;

 Ò Identifying individuals qualified to become 

members of the Board; 

 Ò Recommending Directors to be appointed 

to the committees; and

 Ò Reviewing the results of the Board 

performance.

All Directors are able to take independent 
professional advice in relation to their duties, 
as necessary, at the Company’s expense. The 
Board evaluates its performance on an 
ongoing basis. The Board does not currently 
undertake a formal annual evaluation process.

The Nominations Committee did not meet 
during the year.

The Directors are divided into three classes, as 
nearly equal in number as possible, 
designated: Class I, Class II and Class III. Each 
Director initially appointed to Class I served for 
an initial term that expired on the Company’s 
2016 Annual General Meeting, at which 
meeting the Class I Directors, Doug Doerfler 
and Ron Holtz, were reappointed for a 
three-year term that expired on the Company’s 
2019 Annual General Meeting, at which 
meeting the Class I Directors were again 
reappointed for a three-year term. Each 
Director initially appointed to Class II served for 
an initial term that expired on the Company’s 
2017 Annual General Meeting, at which 
meeting the Class II Directors were again 
reappointed for a three-year term that expired 
on the Company’s 2020 Annual General 
Meeting, at which meeting the Class II 
Directors were again reappointed for a 
three-year term. Each Director initially 
appointed to Class III served for an initial term 
that expired on the Company’s 2018 Annual 
General Meeting, at which meeting the Class III 
Directors were reappointed for a three-year 
term, expiring on the Company’s 2021 Annual 
General Meeting, at which meeting the Class III 
Directors will be considered for appointment 
for a three-year term.

The role of the Chairman is to lead and oversee 
the Board, and to promote good corporate 
governance within the Company. The Chief 
Executive Officer has responsibility for the 
business operations, for implementing the 
Company’s strategy and for the day-to-day 
running of the business.

relationship with stockholders
The Board attaches high importance to 
maintaining good relationships with all 
stockholders. The Executive Directors hold 
regular meetings with institutional stockholders 
to keep them updated on the Company’s 
performance, strategy, management and 
Board membership. The Executive Directors 
give regular briefings to analysts who cover the 
industry and actively encourage more analysts 
to follow the Company.

Further, the Company holds an Annual General 
Meeting for all shareholders to attend and 
encourages open discussion and dialogue. 
Beyond the Annual General Meeting, the Chief 
Executive Officer meets regularly with investors 
to provide them with updates on the Company’s 
business.

The Company has an investor relations team 
which can be contacted at IR@maxcyte.com.

The Company values its communications with 
all its stakeholders. The Company’s website is 
updated on a regular basis and users have the 
ability to view the description of the Company’s 
business as well as its financial statements  
and other relevant information as such 
becomes available.

The Executive Directors are in regular 
communication with shareholders to share 
information regarding the Company and to 
understand the views of shareholders which 
are communicated to the Board by the 
Executive Directors as appropriate.

On behalf of the Board

J. Stark Thompson, PhD
Chairman

20 April 2021

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COMPENSATION REPORT

GOvernAnCe

The Compensation Committee is 
responsible for overseeing key 
elements of the compensation policies, 
plans and practices of the Company.

Compensation Committee
Along with the Board, the Compensation 
Committee is responsible for:

 Ò Establishing a formal and transparent 
procedure for developing policies on 
executive compensation;

 Ò Monitoring and providing advice on the 

framework and broad policy for 
compensation of executive management;

 Ò Taking into account all factors it deems 

appropriate; 

 Ò Determining the compensation of Executive 
Directors including compensation benefits 
and payments;

 Ò Reviewing the design of all share incentive 
plans and all share incentive grants for 
approval by the Board and stockholders; 
and

 Ò Ensuring that all provisions regarding 

disclosure of compensation are clear and 
transparent.

The Compensation Committee comprises 
J. Stark Thompson, who acts as the Chairman 
of the Compensation Committee, Will Brooke 
and Stan Erck. The Compensation Committee 
will meet not less than twice a year and at such 
other times as the chairman of the committee 
shall require. The Compensation Committee 
employs the services of an expert external 
consultant to advise the committee in 
implementing appropriate compensation 
policies informed by relevant market data.

Compensation policy
The Company’s policy on executive 
compensation is intended to attract and retain 
high-quality executives by paying competitive 
compensation packages appropriate to each 
executive’s role, experience and the external 
market. The packages include a basic salary, 
an incentive bonus, benefits and stock options.

Severance agreements
Executive Directors Doug Doerfler and Ron 
Holtz have severance agreements that provide 
certain benefits detailed below. The Non-
Executive Directors do not have severance 
agreements. 

Non-Executive Directors, Messrs. Erck and 
Mandell were re-elected by the stockholders in 
2020 to terms ending in 2023, and Messrs. 
Brooke, Douglas, Johnston and Thompson 
were re-elected by the stockholders in 2018 to 
terms ending in 2021. 

Directors’ compensation
During 2020, the Non-Executive Directors were 
compensated for their services as Directors at 
$40,000 p.a. as approved by the Board, plus 
$27,500 p.a. for the Non-Executive Chairman, 
$15,000 p.a. for the Chairman of the Audit 
Committee, $8,000 p.a. for the other  
Non-Executive members of the Audit 
Committee, $12,000 p.a. for the Chairman 
of the Compensation Committee, $6,000 p.a. 
for the other Non-Executive members of 
the Compensation Committee, and $8,000 
for the Chairman of the Nominations 
Committee. In addition, each Non-Executive 
Director received in 2020 and 2021 annual 
grants of stock options for 26,900 shares of 
common stock of the Company for each year. 
2020 grants vest monthly over four years 
beginning on the date of grant and 2021 grants 
vest fully after 12 months.

Mr. Doerfler earned an annual salary of 
$518,000 in 2020, and Mr. Holtz earned an 
annual salary of $370,000. Mr. Doerfler has a 
target bonus equal to 55% of his base salary, 
and Mr. Holtz has a target bonus equal to 40% 
of his base salary, payable in each case as 
determined by the Board. In addition, Mr. 
Doerfler and Mr. Holtz received in 2020 and 
2021 annual grants of stock options, for 
390,200 (Mr. Doerfler) and 177,600 (Mr. Holtz) 
shares of common stock of the Company, 
respectively, for each year. 2020 grants vest 
monthly over the 48 months following grant 
and 2021 grants vest 12/48th of the total grant 
one year after date of grant, and the remainder 
vests monthly in 36 monthly installments 
thereafter.

Mr. Doerfler’s severance agreement provides 
that on termination of his employment by the 
Company without cause, termination by Mr. 
Doerfler for good reason, or termination by 
virtue of Mr. Doerfler’s death or disability, the 
Company will pay Mr. Doerfler 100% of his 
annual base salary over a 12-month period, 
provided, however, that if any of such 
terminations occurs within 24 months following 
a change of control, the Company will 
accelerate the vesting of all options granted to 

Mr. Doerfler and will pay Mr. Doerfler the sum of 
150% of his annual base salary plus the greater 
of: (i) the actual bonus amount earned by Mr. 
Doerfler under the Company’s bonus plan with 
respect to the calendar year prior to the 
calendar year in which termination occurs;  
(ii) the actual bonus amount earned by  
Mr. Doerfler under the Company’s bonus plan 
for the calendar year in which termination 
occurs; or (iii) Mr. Doerfler’s target bonus 
amount under the Company’s bonus plan for 
the calendar year in which termination occurs, 
in each case less any amounts paid under the 
Company’s disability plans during the 12-month 
severance period. During such severance 
period, the Company will reimburse Mr. Doerfler 
for payments made by him under the 
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation 
Act and continue his coverage under the 
Company’s insurance benefit programmes.  
Any voluntary termination by Mr. Doerfler 
requires three months’ notice.

Mr. Holtz’s severance agreement provides that 
on termination of his employment by the 
Company without cause, termination by Mr. 
Holtz for good reason, or termination by virtue 
of Mr. Holtz’s death or disability, the Company 
will pay Mr. Holtz 75% of his annual base salary 
over a nine-month period, provided, however, 
that if any of such terminations occurs within 
24 months following a change of control, the 
Company will accelerate the vesting of all 
options granted to Mr. Holtz and will pay Mr. 
Holtz the sum of 75% of his annual base salary 
plus the greater of: (i) the actual bonus amount 
earned by Mr. Holtz under the Company’s 
bonus plan with respect to the calendar year 
prior to the calendar year in which termination 
occurs; (ii) the actual bonus amount earned by 
Mr. Holtz under the Company’s bonus plan for 
the calendar year in which termination occurs; 
or (iii) Mr. Holtz’s target bonus amount under 
the Company’s bonus plan for the calendar 
year in which termination occurs, in each case 
less any amounts paid under the Company’s 
disability plans during the nine-month 
severance period. During such severance 
period, the Company will also reimburse Mr. 
Holtz for payments made by him under the 
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation 
Act and continue his coverage under the 
Company’s insurance benefit programmes. 
Any voluntary termination by Mr. Holtz requires 
three months’ notice.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTSSTRATEGIC REPORTCOMPENSATION REPORT CONTINUED

Other equity compensation
During the period beginning 1 January 2020 
and ending 31 December 2020, the Company 
issued a total of 3,849,448 stock options to 
Directors, employees and consultants 
including 729,200 options previously 
announced to Directors and Officers of the 
Company. For the period beginning 1 January 
2020 and ending on 31 December 2020, 
797,467 options were exercised and 487,036 
were expired/forfeited. Total stock options 
outstanding at the beginning of the period 
1 January 2020 were 10,299,285 and were 
12,864,230 at the end of the period 
31 December 2020. In addition, the Directors 
received in 2021, through the date of this 
report, an additional 729,200 options.

Directors’ interests and compensation
The Directors who held office at the date of 
this Report had the following beneficial 
interests in the common stock of the Company 
at the date of this Report:

Name

J. Stark Thompson
Will Brooke
Doug Doerfler
Stan Erck
Ron Holtz
John Johnston
Art Mandell
Richard Douglas

 Common Stock 

 Stock options 

 Total 

–
 50,302 
 433,197 
 247,751 
 150,251 
 120,583 
 374,484 
–

 238,233 
 128,500 
 2,703,680 
 291,967 
 1,192,492 
 135,317 
 148,900 
 121,600 

 238,233 
 178,802 
 3,136,877 
 539,718 
 1,342,743 
 255,900 
 523,384 
 121,600

Compensation for Directors for 2020 was as follows:

Executive Director
Doug Doerfler
Ron Holtz

Non-Executive Director
J. Stark Thompson
Will Brooke
Stan Erck
John Johnston
Art Mandell
Richard Douglas

Base Salary/
Director Fees

2020 Bonus*

Total**

Options 2020

Stock  

$518,000
$370,000

$356,125
$222,000

$874,125
$592,000

390,200 
177,600 

$79,500
$61,000
$46,000
$48,000
$56,000
$40,000

—
—
—
—
—
—

$79,500
$61,000
$46,000
$48,000
$56,000
$40,000

26,900 
26,900 
26,900 
26,900 
26,900 
26,900 

*  Bonuses shown include compensation attributable to 2020 but not paid until 2021 and excludes bonuses paid in 2020 

attributable to 2019.

** In addition to the compensation noted above, the Executive Directors receive standard Company health and other customary 

benefits. Non-Executive Directors did not receive any such benefits.

The Compensation Committee met eight times during the year.

On behalf of the Compensation Committee

J. Stark Thompson, PhD
Chairman, Compensation Committee

20 April 2021

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DIRECTORS’ RESPONSIBILITIES

GOvernAnCe

The Directors are responsible for ensuring the 
Company maintains adequate accounting 
records that are sufficient to show and explain 
the Company’s transactions and disclose with 
reasonable accuracy at any time the financial 
position of the Company and enable them to 
ensure that the financial statements comply 
with US GAAP and the AIM Rules. They are 
also responsible for safeguarding the assets of 
the Company and hence for taking reasonable 
steps for the prevention and detection of fraud 
and other irregularities.

The Directors are responsible for the maintenance 
and integrity of the corporate and financial 
information included on the Company’s 
website. Legislation in the United Kingdom 
governing the preparation and dissemination of 
financial statements may differ from legislation 
in other jurisdictions.

The Directors confirm that to the best of their 
knowledge the financial statements, prepared 
in accordance with US GAAP, give a true and 
fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial 
position and profit or loss of the Company.

The Directors, in addition to being 
responsible for defining and 
overseeing the corporate governance 
of the Company in accordance with 
the QCA Code, are responsible for 
preparing the Annual Report and the 
Financial Statements in accordance 
with applicable law and regulations.

The AIM Rules require the Directors to prepare 
financial statements for each financial year. 
Under those rules, the Directors have elected 
to prepare the financial statements in 
accordance with US GAAP.

The Directors believe that the accounts should 
not be approved unless the Directors are 
satisfied that the accounts give a true and fair 
view of the state of affairs of the Company and 
of the profit or loss of the Company for the 
period presented. In preparing financial 
statements, the Directors are required to:

 Ò Properly select and apply accounting 

policies;

 Ò Present information, including accounting 

policies, in a manner that provides relevant, 
reliable, comparable and understandable 
information; and

 Ò Provide additional disclosures when 

compliance with the specific requirements 
in US GAAP are insufficient to enable users 
to understand the impact of particular 
transactions, other events, and conditions 
on the Company’s financial position and 
financial performance.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTSSTRATEGIC REPORTAUDIT COMMITTEE REPORT

The Audit Committee is responsible for 
ensuring that the financial 
performance of the Company is 
properly monitored and reported.

role and responsibilities
The Audit Committee reviews the 
independence and objectivity of the external 
auditor each year. The Audit Committee also 
reviews the adequacy of the Company’s 
internal controls, accounting policies and 
financial reporting and provides a forum 
through which the Company’s external auditor 
reports to the Non-Executive Directors.

Membership and meetings
The Audit Committee was reconstituted with 
revised terms of reference immediately prior to 
the 2016 AIM IPO and comprises Will Brooke 
who acts as the Audit Committee Chairman, 
Art Mandell and John Johnston. The Audit 
Committee’s terms of reference specify its 
authority and duties. It meets at least two 
times a year, with the Executive Directors and 
the external auditor attending by invitation.

The Board has decided that the size of the 
Company does not currently justify a dedicated 
internal audit function. This position will be 
reviewed as the Company’s activities increase.

Financial reporting
The Audit Committee monitors the integrity of 
the financial statements of the Company, 
including its Annual and Interim Reports, 
interim management statements, preliminary 
results announcements, and any other formal 
announcement relating to the Company’s 
financial performance. It also reviews 
significant financial reporting issues and 
judgments they may contain. The Audit 
Committee also reviews summary financial 
statements and any financial information 
contained in certain other documents, such as 
announcements of a price-sensitive nature.

The Audit Committee reviews and challenges 
where necessary:

 Ò The Company’s accounting standards and 
the consistency of, and any changes to, 
accounting policies both on a year-to-year 
basis and across the Company;

 Ò The methods used to account for 

significant or unusual transactions where 
different approaches are possible;

 Ò The appropriateness of any estimates and 
judgments in the Company’s financial 
reporting, while taking into account the 
views of the independent auditor;

 Ò The clarity of disclosure in the Company’s 
financial reports and the context in which 
statements are made; and

 Ò All material information presented with the 
financial statements, such as the operating 
and financial review and the corporate 
governance statement (insofar as they 
relate to the audit and risk management).

Internal control and risk management
The Board has overall responsibility for 
ensuring that the Company has processes  
to identify, evaluate and manage key risks.  
These processes are designed to manage  
and minimise risk of failure to achieve the 
Company’s strategic objectives and can  
only provide reasonable, and not absolute, 
assurance against material misstatement  
or loss.

The Directors consider that the present system 
of internal controls is sufficient for the needs of 
the Company and adequately addresses the 
risks to which the Company is perceived to be 
exposed. The Audit Committee met twice 
during the year.

On behalf of the Audit Committee

Will Brooke
Chairman, Audit Committee

20 April 2021

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

GOvernAnCe

To the Board of Directors and 
Stockholders of MaxCyte, Inc.

Opinion on the consolidated 
financial statements
We have audited the accompanying 
consolidated balance sheets of MaxCyte, Inc. 
and Subsidiary (the Company) as of 
31 December 2020 and 2019, and the related 
consolidated statements of operations, 
changes in stockholders’ equity, and cash 
flows for the years then ended and the related 
notes (collectively referred to as the 
“consolidated financial statements”). In our 
opinion, the consolidated financial statements 
referred to above present fairly, in all material 
respects, the financial position of the Company 
as of 31 December 2020 and 2019, and the 
results of its operations and its cash flows for 
the years then ended in conformity with 
accounting principles generally accepted in 
the United States of America. 

Basis for opinion 
These consolidated financial statements are 
the responsibility of the Company’s 
management. Our responsibility is to express 
an opinion on the Company’s consolidated 
financial statements based on our audits. We 
are a public accounting firm registered with the 
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board 
(United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be 
independent with respect to the Company in 
accordance with the US federal securities laws 
and the applicable rules and regulations of the 
Securities and Exchange Commission and the 
PCAOB. 

We conducted our audits in accordance with 
the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards 
require that we plan and perform the audit to 
obtain reasonable assurance about whether 
the consolidated financial statements are free 
of material misstatement whether due to error 
or fraud. The Company is not required to have, 
nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of 
its internal control over financial reporting. As 
part of our audit, we are required to obtain an 
understanding of internal control over financial 
reporting but not for the purpose of expressing 
an opinion on the effectiveness of the 
Company’s internal control over financial 
reporting. Accordingly, we express no such 
opinion. 

Our audits included performing procedures to 
assess the risks of material misstatement of 
the consolidated financial statements, whether 
due to error or fraud, and performing 
procedures that respond to those risks. Such 
procedures included examining, on a test 
basis, evidence regarding the amounts and 
disclosures in the consolidated financial 
statements. Our audits also included 
evaluating the accounting principles used and 
significant estimates made by management, as 
well as evaluating the overall presentation of 
the consolidated financial statements. We 
believe that our audits provide a reasonable 
basis for our opinion.

We have served as the Company’s auditor 
since 2018.

CohnReznick LLP
Tysons, Virginia 

20 April 2021

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTSSTRATEGIC REPORT31 December 
2020
US$

31 December  

2019
US$

 18,755,200 
16,007,500 
5,171,900 
4,315,800 
1,003,000 

 15,210,800 
1,497,800 
3,244,500 
3,701,800 
797,100 

45,253,400 

24,452,000

4,546,200 
1,728,300
218,300
33,900

3,280,100 
2,253,300
–
–

 51,780,100 

 29,985,400

 890,200 
5,308,500
572,600
4,843,000 

 2,089,400
3,551,600
508,900
3,193,200

11,614,300 

9,343,100 

4,917,000 
1,234,600
788,800 

4,895,300 
1,807,100 
338,100 

18,554,600 

16,383,600 

773,800 
127,673,900 
 (95,222,300)

574,000 
96,433,700 
 (83,405,900)

33,225,400 

13,601,800

 51,780,100 

 29,985,400 

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED 31 DECEMBER
(AMOUNTS IN US DOLLARS)

Assets
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents
Short-term investments, at amortised cost
Accounts receivable, net
Inventory
Other current assets

Total current assets

Property and equipment, net
Right-of-use asset – operating leases
Right-of-use asset – finance leases
Other assets

Total assets

Liabilities and stockholders’ equity
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable 
Accrued expenses and other
Operating lease liability, current
Deferred revenue

Total current liabilities

Note payable, net of discount and deferred fees
Operating lease liability, net of current portion
Other liabilities

Total liabilities

Commitments and contingencies (Note 9)
Stockholders’ equity 
Common stock, $0.01 par; 200,000,000 shares authorised, 77,382,473 and 57,403,583 shares issued and 

outstanding at 31 December 2020 and 2019, respectively

Additional paid-in capital
Accumulated deficit

Total stockholders’ equity 

Liabilities and stockholders’ equity

See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED 31 DECEMBER
(AMOUNTS IN US DOLLARS)

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Revenue
Costs of goods sold

Gross profit

Operating expenses:
Research and development
Sales and marketing
General and administrative

Total operating expenses

Operating loss

Other income (expense):
Interest and other expense
Interest and other income

Total other income (expense)

Net loss 

Basic and diluted net loss per common share

Weighted average common shares outstanding, basic and diluted

See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.

2020
US$

2019
US$

26,168,900 
2,767,000 

21,620,700 
2,499,200 

23,401,900 

19,121,500 

17,744,300 
8,328,700 
8,385,600 

17,601,200
7,852,100 
6,088,200 

34,458,600 

31,541,500 

(11,056,700)

(12,420,000)

(825,600)
65,900 

(681,100)
206,100

(759,700)

(475,000)

(11,816,400)

(12,895,000)

(0.17)

(0.23)

69,464,751 

56,397,524 

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTSSTRATEGIC REPORTCONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
FOR THE YEARS ENDED 31 DECEMBER
(AMOUNTS IN US DOLLARS)

Balance 1 January 2019
Issuance of stock in public offering
Stock-based compensation expense
Exercise of stock options
Net loss

Balance 31 December 2019

Balance 1 January 2020
Issuance of stock in public offering
Stock-based compensation expense
Exercise of stock options
Net loss

Balance 31 December 2020

See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.

Common Stock

Shares

51,332,764 
5,908,319
–
162,500 
–

Amount
US$

 513,300 
59,100
–
1,600 
–

Additional  
Paid-in  
Capital
US$

82,279,300
12,271,200
1,752,100 
131,100 
–

Accumulated 
Deficit
US$

(70,510,900)
–
–
–
 (12,895,000)

Total  
Stockholders’ 
Equity
US$

12,281,700 
12,330,300
1,752,100 
132,700 
 (12,895,000)

57,403,583 

574,000 

 96,433,700 

(83,405,900)

13,601,800 

Common Stock

Shares

57,403,583
19,181,423
–
797,467
–

Amount
US$

574,000
191,800
–
8,000
–

Additional  
Paid-in  
Capital
US$

Accumulated 
Deficit
US$

Total  
Stockholders’ 
Equity
US$ 

96,433,700 
28,375,400
2,471,800 
393,000
–

(83,405,900)
–
–
–
 (11,816,400)

 13,601,800 
28,567,200
2,471,800 
401,000
 (11,816,400)

77,382,473 

 773,800 

 127,673,900 

(95,222,300)

33,225,400 

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOW
FOR THE YEARS ENDED 31 DECEMBER
(AMOUNTS IN US DOLLARS)

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Cash flows from operating activities:
Net loss
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:

Depreciation and amortisation on property and equipment, net
Net book value of consigned equipment sold
Loss on disposal of fixed assets
Fair value adjustment of liability classified warrant
Stock-based compensation
Bad debt (recovery) expense
Amortisation of discounts on short-term investments
Non-cash interest expense

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

Accounts receivable
Inventory
Other current assets
Right-of-use asset – operating leases
Right-of-use asset – finance lease
Other assets
Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other
Operating lease liability
Deferred revenue
Other liabilities

Net cash used in operating activities

Cash flows from investing activities:
Purchases of short-term investments
Maturities of short-term investments
Purchases of property and equipment

Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities

Cash flows from financing activities:
Net proceeds from sale of common stock
Borrowings under notes payable
Principal payments on notes payable
Proceed from exercise of stock options
Principal payments on finance leases

Net cash provided by financing activities

Net increase in cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of year

Cash and cash equivalents, end of year

Supplemental cash flow information:
Cash paid for interest
Supplemental non-cash information:
Property and equipment purchases included in accounts payable
Issuance of warrant in conjunction with debt transaction

See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.

2020
US$

2019
US$

(11,816,400)

(12,895,000)

1,047,700 
79,900
25,900
366,500
2,471,800 
 (117,200)
 (3,800)
21,700 

(1,810,200)
(890,600)
(205,900)
525,000
83,400
(33,900)
391,000 
(508,800)
1,649,800 
(58,000) 

613,500
25,000
1,700
14,000
1,752,100
54,200 
 (32,600)
51,900 

1,592,000
(1,890,200)
66,600
474,600
–
–
1,160,200 
68,600 
795,900
 (655,000) 

(8,782,100)

(8,802,500)

 (22,505,900)
8,000,000
(2,072,100)

 (7,424,100)
9,149,900
 (1,271,300)

(16,578,000)

454,500

28,567,200
1,440,000
 (1,440,000)
401,000
(63,700)  

12,330,300
4,953,300
 (5,105,500)
132,700
– 

28,904,500

12,310,800

3,544,400 
15,210,800 

3,962,800
11,248,000 

18,755,200 

15,210,800 

421,400 

669,600 

70,900 
–

399,900
60,700

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1.  Organisation and description of business 
MaxCyte, Inc. (the Company or MaxCyte) was incorporated as a majority owned subsidiary of EntreMed, Inc. (EntreMed) on 31 July 1998, under the 
laws and provisions of the state of Delaware, and commenced operations on 1 July 1999. In November 2002, MaxCyte was recapitalised and 
EntreMed was no longer deemed to control the Company. 

MaxCyte is a global life sciences company focused on advancing the discovery, development and commercialisation of next-generation cell 
therapies. MaxCyte leverages its proprietary cell-engineering technology platform to enable the programmes of its biotechnology and 
pharmaceutical company customers who are engaged in cell-therapy, including gene editing and immuno-oncology, as well as in drug discovery 
and development and biomanufacturing. The Company licenses and sells its instruments and technology and sells its consumables to developers of 
cell therapies and to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for use in drug discovery and development and biomanufacturing. In early 2020, 
the Company established a wholly owned subsidiary, CARMA Cell Therapies, Inc. (CCTI), as part of its development of CARMA®, MaxCyte’s 
proprietary, mRNA-based, clinical-stage, immuno-oncology cell-therapy.

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted economic markets and the economic impact, duration and spread of related effects is uncertain at this time 
and difficult to predict. As a result, it is not possible to ascertain the overall future impact of COVID-19 on the Company’s business and, depending 
upon the extent and severity of such effects, including, but not limited to potential slowdowns in customer operations, extension of sales cycles, 
shrinkage in customer capital budgets or delays in customers’ clinical trials, the pandemic could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s 
business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows. In 2020, the Company made adjustments to its operating, sales and marketing 
practices to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 restrictions which reduced planned spending, particularly on travel and marketing expenditures. In 
addition, COVID-19 restrictions may have delayed or slowed the research activities of some existing and prospective customers. It is not possible to 
quantify the impact of COVID-19 on the Company’s revenues and expenses in 2020 or its expected impact on future periods.

2.  Summary of significant accounting policies
Basis of presentation
The accompanying financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of 
America (US GAAP).

Use of estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with US 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 financial statements and the reported 
amount of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. In the accompanying consolidated financial statements, estimates are used for, but 
not limited to, revenue recognition, stock-based compensation, allowance for doubtful accounts, allowance for inventory obsolescence, accruals for 
contingent liabilities, accruals for clinical trials, deferred taxes and valuation allowance, and the depreciable lives of fixed assets. Actual results could 
differ from those estimates.

Principles of consolidation
The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, CCTI. All significant intercompany 
balances have been eliminated in consolidation.

Concentration
During the year ended 31 December 2020, one customer represented 15% of revenue, in part due to certain one-time milestone events. During the 
year ended 31 December 2019, one customer represented 10% of revenue.

During the year ended 31 December 2020, the Company purchased approximately 47% of its inventory from a single supplier. During the year ended 
31 December 2019, the Company purchased approximately 56% of its inventory from a single supplier. At 31 December 2020, amounts payable to three 
suppliers totalled 62% of total accounts payable. At 31 December 2019, amounts payable to a single supplier totalled 25% of total accounts payable.

Foreign currency
The Company’s functional currency is the US dollar; transactions denominated in foreign currencies are transacted at the exchange rate in effect at 
the date of each transaction. Differences in exchange rates during the period between the date a transaction denominated in foreign currency is 
consummated and the date on which it is either settled or at the reporting date are recognised in the consolidated statements of operations as 
general and administrative expense. The Company recognised an $81,800 foreign currency transaction gain and a $24,700 foreign currency 
transaction loss for the years ended 31 December 2020 and 2019, respectively.

Fair value
Fair value is the price that would be received from the sale of an asset or paid to transfer a liability assuming an orderly transaction in the most 
advantageous market at the measurement date. US GAAP establishes a hierarchical disclosure framework which prioritises and ranks the level of 
observability of inputs used in measuring fair value. These tiers include:
•  Level 1 – Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets that are accessible at the measurement date for identical assets or liabilities. The fair value 

hierarchy gives the highest priority to Level 1 inputs.

•  Level 2 – Observable market-based inputs other than quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
•  Level 3 – Unobservable inputs are used when little or no market data is available. The fair value hierarchy gives the lowest priority to Level 3 inputs.

See Note 6 for additional information regarding fair value.

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Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments
Cash and cash equivalents consist of financial instruments including money market funds and commercial paper with original maturities of less than 
90 days. Short-term investments consist of commercial paper with original maturities greater than 90 days and less than one year. All money market 
funds and commercial paper are recorded at amortised cost unless they are deemed to be impaired on an other-than-temporary basis, at which 
time they are recorded at fair value using Level 2 inputs.

The following table summarises the Company’s investments at 31 December 2020:

Description

Classification

Money market funds
Commercial paper
Commercial paper
Corporate debt

Total investments

Cash equivalents 
Cash equivalents 
Short-term investments
Short-term investments 

The following table summarises the Company’s investments at 31 December 2019:

Description

Classification

Money market funds
Commercial paper
Commercial paper

Total investments

Cash equivalents 
Cash equivalents
Short-term investments 

Amortised  

Cost
US$

8,702,200 
6,523,500 
13,996,800
2,010,700 

31,233,200 

Amortised  

Cost
US$

10,037,000 
1,399,700 
1,497,800 

 12,934,500 

Gross 
Unrecognised 
Holding Gains
US$

Gross 
Unrecognised 
Holding Losses
US$

Aggregate  
Fair Value
US$

–
–
1,800
–

1,800

–
–
–
(100)

8,702,200
6,523,500 
13,998,600
2,010,600 

(100)

31,234,900 

Gross 
Unrecognised 
Holding Gains
US$

Gross 
Unrecognised 
Holding Losses
US$

–
–
400

400

–
–
–

–

Aggregate  
Fair Value
US$

10,037,000 
1,399,700 
1,498,200 

12,934,900 

At times the Company’s cash balances may exceed federally insured limits and cash may also be deposited in foreign bank accounts that are not 
covered by federal deposit insurance. The Company does not believe that this results in any significant credit risk.

Inventory
The Company sells or licenses products to customers. The Company uses the average cost method of accounting for its inventory, and adjustments 
resulting from periodic physical inventory counts are reflected in costs of goods sold in the period of the adjustment. Inventory is carried at the lower 
of cost or net realisable value. Inventory consisted of the following at:

Raw materials inventory
Finished goods inventory

Total inventory

31 December 
2020
US$

1,771,300 
2,544,500 

31 December  

2019
US$

1,318,600 
2,383,200 

4,315,800 

3,701,800 

The Company determined no allowance for obsolescence was necessary at 31 December 2020 or 2019.

Accounts receivable
Accounts receivable are reduced by an allowance for doubtful accounts, if needed. The allowance for doubtful accounts reflects the best estimate 
of probable losses determined principally on the basis of historical experience and specific allowances for known troubled accounts. All accounts or 
portions thereof that are deemed to be uncollectible or to require an excessive collection cost are written off to the allowance for doubtful accounts. 
The Company determined no allowance was necessary at 31 December 2020. The Company recorded an allowance of $117,200 at 31 December 
2019. This amount was subsequently collected and the allowance was reversed in the year ended 31 December 2020. 

Property and equipment
Property and equipment are stated at cost. Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method. Office equipment (principally computers) is 
depreciated over an estimated useful life of three years. Laboratory equipment is depreciated over an estimated useful life of five years. Furniture is 
depreciated over a useful life of seven years. Leasehold improvements are amortised over the shorter of the estimated lease term or useful life. 
Instruments represent equipment held at a customer’s site that is typically leased to customers on a short-term basis and is depreciated over an 
estimated useful life of five years.

Property and equipment include capitalised costs to develop internal-use software. Applicable costs are capitalised during the development stage 
of the project and include direct internal costs, third-party costs and allocated interest expenses as appropriate. 

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2.  Summary of significant accounting policies continued
Property and equipment continued
Property and equipment consist of the following:

Furniture and equipment
Instruments
Leasehold improvements
Internal-use software under development
Internal-use software
Accumulated depreciation and amortisation

Property and equipment, net

31 December 
2020
US$

3,492,900 
1,424,600 
641,400 
–
1,963,000
 (2,975,700)

31 December  

2019
US$

2,311,800 
1,223,700 
635,100 
30,300
1,277,300
(2,198,100)

4,546,200 

 3,280,100 

For the years ended 31 December 2020 and 2019, the Company transferred $276,600 and $571,000, respectively, of instruments previously 
classified as inventory to property and equipment leased to customers.

For the years ended 31 December 2020 and 2019, the Company incurred depreciation and amortisation expense of $1,047,700 and $613,500, 
respectively. Maintenance and repairs are charged to expense as incurred.

In the years ended 31 December 2020 and 2019, the Company capitalised approximately $16,700 and $13,800 of interest expense related to 
capitalised software development projects.

Management reviews property and equipment for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an 
asset may not be recoverable. Recoverability of the long-lived asset is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of the asset to future 
undiscounted net cash flows expected to be generated by the asset. If such assets are considered to be impaired, the impairment to be recognised 
is measured by the amount by which the carrying amount of the assets exceeds the estimated fair value of the assets. The Company recognised no 
impairment in either of the years ended 31 December 2020 or 2019.

Revenue recognition
The Company analyses contracts to determine the appropriate revenue recognition using the following steps: (i) identification of contracts with 
customers; (ii) identification of distinct performance obligations in the contract; (iii) determination of contract transaction price; (iv) allocation of 
contract transaction price to the performance obligations; and (v) determination of revenue recognition based on timing of satisfaction of the 
performance obligations.

In some arrangements, products and services have been sold together representing distinct performance obligations. In such arrangements the 
Company allocates the sale price to the various performance obligations in the arrangement on a relative selling price basis. Under this basis, the 
Company determines the estimated selling price of each performance obligation in a manner that is consistent with that used to determine the price 
to sell the deliverable on a standalone basis.

The Company recognises revenue upon the satisfaction of its performance obligation (generally upon transfer of control of promised goods or 
services to its customers) in an amount that reflects the consideration to which it expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services.

The Company defers incremental costs of obtaining a customer contract and amortises the deferred costs over the period that the goods and 
services are transferred to the customer. The Company had no material incremental costs to obtain customer contracts in any period presented.  

Deferred revenue results from amounts billed in advance to customers or cash received from customers in advance of services being provided.

Research and development costs
Research and development costs consist of independent proprietary research and development costs and the costs associated with work 
performed for fees from third parties. Research and development costs are expensed as incurred. Research costs performed for fees paid by 
customers are included in costs of goods sold.

Stock-based compensation 
The Company grants stock-based awards in exchange for employee, consultant and non-employee director services. The value of the award is 
recognised as expense on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period.

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The Company utilises the Black-Scholes option pricing model for estimating fair value of its stock options granted. Option valuation models, 
including the Black-Scholes model, require the input of highly subjective assumptions, and changes in the assumptions used can materially affect 
the grant-date fair value of an award. These assumptions include the expected volatility, expected dividend yield, risk-free rate of interest and the 
expected life of the award. A discussion of management’s methodology for developing each of the assumptions used in the Black-Scholes model is 
as follows:

  Expected volatility
  Volatility is a measure of the amount by which a financial variable such as a share price has fluctuated (historical volatility) or is expected to 

fluctuate (expected volatility) during a period. The Company does not currently have sufficient history with its own common stock to determine its 
actual volatility. The Company has been able to identify several public entities of similar size, complexity and stage of development; accordingly, 
historical volatility has been calculated at between 49% and 55% for the year ended 31 December 2020 and between 48% and 50% for the year 
ended 31 December 2019 using the volatility of these companies.

  Expected dividend yield

The Company has never declared or paid common stock dividends and has no plans to do so in the foreseeable future. Additionally, the 
Company’s long-term debt agreement restricts the payment of cash dividends.

  Risk-free interest rate

This approximates the US Treasury rate for the day of each option grant during the year, having a term that closely resembles the expected term 
of the option. The risk-free interest rate was between 0.4% and 1.7% for the year ended 31 December 2020, and between 1.6% and 2.6% for the 
year ended 31 December 2019.

  Expected term

This is the period that the options granted are expected to remain unexercised. Options granted have a maximum term of ten years. The 
Company estimates the expected term of the options to be approximately six years for options with a standard four-year vesting period, using 
the simplified method. Over time, management intends to track estimates of the expected term of the option term so that estimates will 
approximate actual behaviour for similar options.

  Expected forfeiture rate

The Company records forfeitures as they occur.

Income taxes 
The Company uses the asset and liability method of accounting for income taxes. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on 
differences between the financial reporting and tax basis of assets and liabilities and are measured using the enacted tax rates and laws that are 
expected to be in effect when the differences are expected to reverse. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is 
recognised in the period that such tax rate changes are enacted. The measurement of a deferred tax asset is reduced, if necessary, by a valuation 
allowance if it is more-likely-than-not that all or a portion of the deferred tax asset will not be realised.

Management uses a recognition threshold and a measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of tax positions 
taken or expected to be taken in a tax return, as well as guidance on derecognition, classification, interest and penalties and financial statement 
reporting disclosures. For those benefits to be recognised, a tax position must be more-likely-than-not to be sustained upon examination by taxing 
authorities. The Company recognises interest and penalties accrued on any unrecognised tax exposures as a component of income tax expense. 
The Company has not identified any uncertain income tax positions that could have a material impact to the consolidated financial statements. 

The Company is subject to taxation in various jurisdictions in the United States and abroad and remains subject to examination by taxing 
jurisdictions for 2016 and all subsequent periods.  The Company had a Federal net operating loss (NOL) carryforward of $57.8m as of 31 December 
2020, which was generally available as a deduction against future income for US federal corporate income tax purposes, subject to applicable 
carryforward limitations.  As a result of the March 2016 public offering of common stock and listing on the AIM market of the London Stock 
Exchange, the Company’s NOLs are limited on an annual basis, subject to certain carryforward provisions, pursuant to Section 382 of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, as a result of a greater than 50% change in ownership that occurred in the three-year period ending at the 
time of the AIM listing and public offering. The Company has calculated that for the period ending 31 December 2022, the cumulative limitation 
amount exceeds the NOLs subject to the limitation. In addition, the Company’s NOLs may also be limited as a result of ownership changes 
subsequent to the 2016 AIM listing. The Company has not yet calculated such subsequent limitations.

Leases
Right-of-use (ROU) assets represent the Company’s right to use an underlying asset for the lease term, and lease liabilities represent its obligation to 
make lease payments arising from the lease. In transactions where the Company is the lessee, at the inception of a contract, the Company 
determines if the arrangement is, or contains, a lease. Operating lease ROU assets and liabilities are recognised at commencement date based on 
the present value of lease payments over the lease term. Lease expense is recognised on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

The Company has made certain accounting policy elections for leases where it is the lessee whereby the Company: (i) does not recognise ROU 
assets or lease liabilities for short-term leases (those with original terms of 12-months or less); and (ii) combines lease and non-lease elements of its 
operating leases. See Note 9 for additional details over leases where the Company is the lessee. 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS CONTINUED

2.  Summary of significant accounting policies continued
Leases continued
All transactions where the Company is the lessor are short-term (one year or less) and have been classified as operating leases. All leases require 
upfront payments covering the full period of the lease and thus, there are no future payments expected to be received from existing leases. See 
Note 3 for details over revenue recognition related to lease agreements.

Loss per share
Basic loss per share is computed by dividing net loss available to common shareholders by the weighted average number of shares of Common 
Stock outstanding during the period.

For periods of net income, and when the effects are not anti-dilutive, diluted earnings per share is computed by dividing net income available to 
common shareholders by the weighted-average number of shares outstanding plus the impact of all potential dilutive common shares, consisting 
primarily of common stock options and stock purchase warrants using the treasury stock method.

For periods of net loss, diluted loss per share is calculated similarly to basic loss per share because the impact of all dilutive potential common 
shares is anti-dilutive. The number of anti-dilutive shares, consisting of stock options and stock purchase warrants, which has been excluded from 
the computation of diluted loss per share, was 12.9 million and 10.4 million for the years ended 31 December 2020 and 2019, respectively.

Recent accounting pronouncements
Recently adopted 
On 1 January 2020, the Company adopted new guidance addressing the accounting for implementation, setup and other upfront costs paid by a 
customer in a cloud computing or hosting arrangement. The guidance aligns the accounting treatment of these costs incurred in a hosting 
arrangement treated as a service contract with the requirements for capitalisation and amortisation costs to develop or obtain internal-use software. 
The adoption did not have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. 

Unadopted
In June 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued guidance with respect to measuring credit losses on financial instruments, 
including trade receivables. The guidance eliminates the probable initial recognition threshold that was previously required prior to recognising a 
credit loss on financial instruments. The credit loss estimate can now reflect an entity’s current estimate of all future expected credit losses. Under 
the previous guidance, an entity only considered past events and current conditions. The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after 
15 December 2022, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted for fiscal years beginning after 15 December 
2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years. The adoption of certain amendments of this guidance must be applied on a modified 
retrospective basis and the adoption of the remaining amendments must be applied on a prospective basis. The Company is currently evaluating 
the impact, if any, that this new accounting pronouncement will have on its consolidated financial statements.

In August 2020, the FASB issued guidance with respect to: (i) accounting for convertible instruments; (ii) accounting for contracts in an entity’s own 
equity as derivatives; and (iii) earnings per share calculations. The guidance attempts to simplify the accounting for convertible instruments by 
eliminating the requirement to separate embedded conversion options in certain circumstances. The guidance also provides for updated disclosure 
requirements for convertible instruments. The guidance further updates the criteria for determining whether a contract in an entity’s own equity  
can be classified as equity. Lastly, the guidance specifically addresses how to account for the effect of convertible instruments and potential 
cash-settled instruments in calculating diluted earnings per share. The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after 15 December 2021, 
including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted for fiscal years beginning after 15 December 2020, including interim 
periods within those fiscal years. The adoption of this guidance may be applied on a modified retrospective basis or a full retrospective basis.  
The Company is currently evaluating the impact, if any, that this new accounting pronouncement will have on its consolidated financial statements.

The Company has evaluated all other issued and unadopted accounting standards updates and believes the adoption of these standards will not 
have a material impact on its results of operations, financial position, or cash flows.

3. revenue 
Revenue is principally from the sale or lease of instruments and processing assemblies, as well as from extended warranties. In some 
arrangements, products and services have been sold together representing distinct performance obligations. In such arrangements the Company 
allocates the sale price to the various performance obligations in the arrangement on a relative selling price basis. Under this basis, the Company 
determines the estimated selling price of each performance obligation in a manner that is consistent with that used to determine the price to sell the 
deliverable on a standalone basis.

Revenue is recognised at the time control is transferred to the customer and the performance obligation is satisfied. Revenue from the sale of 
instruments and processing assemblies is generally recognised at the time of shipment to the customer, provided no significant vendor obligations 
remain and collectability is reasonably assured. Revenue from equipment leases are recognised ratably over the contractual term of the lease 
agreement and when specific milestones are achieved by a customer. Licensing fee revenue is recognised ratably over the licence period. Revenue 
from fees for research services is recognised when services have been provided. 

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Revenue from 
Contracts with 
Customers
US$

14,850,200 
–
601,300

Revenue from 
Lease Elements
US$

–
10,717,400
–

Total Revenue
US$

14,850,200
10,717,400
601,300

15,451,500

10,717,400

26,168,900 

Revenue from 
Contracts with 
Customers
US$

12,917,800
–
339,400

Revenue from 
Lease Elements
US$

–
8,363,500
–

Total Revenue
US$

12,917,800
8,363,500
339,400

13,257,200

8,363,500

 21,620,700

US$

3,452,800
3,191,200
4,752,700 

5,014,300

US$

2,770,100
2,435,000
3,117,700

3,452,800

Disaggregated revenue for the year ended 31 December 2020 is as follows:

Product sales
Leased elements
Other

Total

Disaggregated revenue for the year ended 31 December 2019 is as follows: 

Product sales
Leased elements
Other

Total

Additional disclosures relating to revenue from contracts with customers 
Changes in deferred revenue for the year ended 31 December 2020 were as follows:

Balance at 1 January 2020
Revenue recognised in the current period from amounts included in the beginning balance 
Current period deferrals, net of amounts recognised in the current period

Balance at 31 December 2020

Changes in deferred revenue for the year ended 31 December 2019 were as follows:

Balance at 1 January 2019
Revenue recognised in the current period from amounts included in the beginning balance 
Current period deferrals, net of amounts recognised in the current period

Balance at 31 December 2019

Remaining contract consideration for which revenue has not been recognised due to unsatisfied performance obligations with a duration greater 
than one year was approximately $227,500 at 31 December 2020 of which the Company expects to recognise approximately $56,200 in 2021, 
$56,200 in 2022, $41,900 in 2023, $22,000 in 2024, and $51,200 thereafter.

In the years ended 31 December 2020 and 2019, the Company did not incur, and therefore did not defer, any material incremental costs to obtain 
contracts or costs to fulfil contracts.

4.  Debt
The Company originally entered into a credit facility with Midcap Financial SBIC, LP (MidCap) in March 2014. In February 2019, the Company paid 
off the MidCap credit facility in full in accordance with its terms and conditions.

In November 2019, the Company entered into a new credit facility with MidCap. The credit facility provided for a $5m term loan maturing on 
1 November 2024. The term loan provides for: (i) an interest rate of one-month Libor plus 6.5% with a 1.5% Libor floor; (ii) monthly interest 
payments; (iii) 30 monthly principal payments of approximately $166,700 beginning June 2022; and (iv) a 3% final payment fee. The Company used 
the proceeds from the credit facility for general operating purposes. The debt is collateralised by substantially all assets of the Company.

In conjunction with the credit facility, the Company issued the lender a warrant to purchase 71,168 shares of common stock at a price of £1.09081 
per share. The warrant is exercisable at any time through the tenth anniversary of issuance (see Note 5). In connection with the credit facility, the 
Company also incurred expenses of approximately $47,300. The warrant and expenses resulted in recording a debt discount which is amortised as 
interest expense over the term of the loan. At 31 December 2020, the term loan had an outstanding principal balance of $5m and $83,000 of 
unamortised debt discount.

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4.  Debt continued
In April 2020, the Company received a loan from Silicon Valley Bank in the amount of $1,440,000 under the US Small Business Administration’s Paycheck 
Protection Program (PPP). The PPP was established as part of the US Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and provides for 
potential forgiveness of the loan upon the Company meeting certain conditions as to the use of the proceeds. The loan provided for interest at 1% 
and a maturity date of April 2022. In May 2020, subsequent to the Company’s 2020 equity raise (see Note 5), the Company repaid the loan in full.

5.  Stockholders’ equity
Common stock
In March 2019, the Company completed an equity capital raise issuing approximately 5.9 million shares of Common Stock at a price of £1.70 
(or approximately $2.25) per share. The transaction generated gross proceeds of approximately £10m (or approximately $13.3m). In conjunction with 
the transaction, the Company incurred costs of approximately $1.0m, which resulted in the Company receiving net proceeds of approximately 
$12.3m.

In May 2020, the Company completed an equity capital raise issuing 19,181,423 shares of its Common Stock at a price of £1.31 (or approximately 
$1.60) per share in an unregistered offering. The transaction generated gross proceeds of approximately £25.1m (or $30.5m). In conjunction with the 
transaction, the Company incurred costs of approximately $1.9m, which resulted in the Company receiving net proceeds of approximately $28.6m.

During the year ended 31 December 2020, the Company issued 797,467 shares of Common Stock as a result of stock option exercises, receiving 
gross proceeds of $401,000. During the year ended 31 December 2019, the Company issued 162,500 shares of Common Stock as a result of stock 
option exercises, receiving gross proceeds of $132,700.

Warrant
In connection with the November 2019 credit facility, the Company issued the lender a warrant to purchase 71,168 shares of Common Stock at an 
exercise price of £1.09081 per share. The warrant is exercisable at any time through the tenth anniversary of issuance. The warrant is classified as a 
liability as its strike price is in a currency other than the Company’s functional currency. The warrant is recorded at fair value at the end of each 
reporting period with changes from the prior balance sheet date recorded on the consolidated statement of operations (see Note 6).

Stock options 
The Company adopted the MaxCyte, Inc. Long-Term Incentive Plan (the Plan) in January 2016 to amend and restate the MaxCyte 2000 Long-term 
Incentive Plan to provide for the awarding of: (i) stock options; (ii) restricted stock; (iii) incentive shares; and (iv) performance awards to employees, 
officers, and Directors of the Company and to other individuals as determined by the Board of Directors. Under the Plan, as amended, the 
maximum number of shares of Common Stock of the Company that the Company may issue is increased by ten percent (10%) of the shares that 
are issued and outstanding at the time awards are made under the Plan. On 10 December 2019 and 27 October 2020, the Company’s Board 
resolved to increase the number of stock options under the Plan by 3,000,000 and 1,500,000, respectively to provide sufficient shares to allow 
competitive equity compensation in its primary markets for staff and consistent with practices of comparable companies. 

At 31 December 2020 there were 4,175,737 awards available to be issued under the Plan.

The Company has not issued any restricted stock, incentive shares, or performance awards under the Plan. Stock options granted under the Plan 
may be either incentive stock options as defined by the Internal Revenue Code or non-qualified stock options. The Board of Directors determines 
who will receive options under the Plan and determines the vesting period. The options can have a maximum term of no more than ten years. 
The exercise price of options granted under the Plan is determined by the Board of Directors and must be at least equal to the fair market value 
of the Common Stock of the Company on the date of grant. 

A summary of stock option activity for the years ended 31 December 2020 and 2019 is as follows:

.

Outstanding at 1 January 2019
Granted
Exercised
Forfeited

Outstanding at 31 December 2019
Granted
Exercised
Forfeited

Outstanding at 31 December 2020

Exercisable at 31 December 2020

 Number of  
Options 

 Weighted Average 
Exercise Price 
US$

 Weighted-Average 
Remaining 
Contractual Life  
(in years) 

 Aggregate  

Intrinsic Value
US$

8,388,500
2,538,500
(162,500)
 (465,215)

10,299,285
3,849,448
(797,467)
(487,036)

12,864,230 

7,609,667 

1.49 
2.17 
0.82 
 2.48 

1.63 
3.00
0.52
2.59

2.11

1.53

7.4 

10,354,900

217,600

7.0 

6,471,500

2,198,300

7.1 

5.9 

65,576,300

43,196,900

The weighted-average fair value of the options granted during the years ended 31 December 2020 and 2019 was estimated to be $1.39 and  
$1.08, respectively.

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As of 31 December 2020, total unrecognised compensation expense was $7,130,900 which will be recognised over the next 2.9 years. 

Stock-based compensation expense for the years ended 31 December was classified as follows on the consolidated statement of operations:

General and administrative
Sales and marketing
Research and development

Total

2020
US$

1,230,700
484,700
756,400

2019
US$

827,500
325,700 
598,900 

2,471,800

1,752,100

6.  Fair value
The Company’s consolidated balance sheets include various financial instruments (primarily cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments, 
accounts receivable and accounts payable) that are carried at cost, which approximates fair value due to the short-term nature of the instruments. 
Notes payable are reflective of fair value based on market comparable instruments with similar terms. 

Financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis
The Company has an outstanding warrant originally issued in connection with the November 2019 debt financing (see Note 4) that is accounted for as 
a liability whose fair value is determined using Level 3 inputs. The following table identifies the carrying amounts of this warrant at 31 December 2020:

Liabilities
Liability classified warrant

Total at 31 December 2020

The following table identifies the carrying amounts of this warrant at 31 December 2019:

Liabilities
Liability classified warrant

Total at 31 December 2019

Level 1
US$

Level 2
US$

Level 3
US$

Total
US$

–

–

–

–

441,200

441,200

441,200

441,200

Level 1
US$

Level 2
US$

–

–

–

–

Level 3
US$

74,700

74,700

Total
US$

74,700

74,700

The following table presents the activity for those items measured at fair value on a recurring basis using Level 3 inputs for the year ended 
31 December 2020:

Balance at 31 December 2019
Change in fair value

Balance at 31 December 2020

Mark-to-market 
liabilities – warrant
US$

74,700
366,500

441,200

The following table presents the activity for those items measured at fair value on a recurring basis using Level 3 inputs for the year ended 
31 December 2019:

Balance at 31 December 2018
Issuance 
Change in fair value

Balance at 31 December 2019

Mark-to-market 
liabilities – warrant
US$

–
60,700
14,000 

74,700

The gains and losses resulting from the changes in the fair value of the liability classified warrant are classified as other income or expense in the 
accompanying consolidated statements of operations. The fair value of the Common Stock purchase warrants is determined based on the 
Black-Scholes option pricing model or other option pricing models as appropriate and includes the use of unobservable inputs such as the 
expected term, anticipated volatility and expected dividends. Changes in any of the assumptions related to such unobservable inputs identified 
above may change the embedded conversion options’ fair value; increases in expected term, anticipated volatility and expected dividends generally 
result in increases in fair value, while decreases in these unobservable inputs generally result in decreases in fair value.

The Company has no other financial assets or liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis.

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6.  Fair value continued
Financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis
Money market funds and commercial paper classified as held-to-maturity are measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis when they are deemed 
to be impaired on an other-than-temporary basis. No such fair value impairment was recognised during the years ended 31 December 2020 or 2019.

Non-financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis
The Company has no non-financial assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis.

Non-financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis
The Company measures its long-lived assets, including property and equipment, at fair value on a non-recurring basis. These assets are recognised at 
fair value when they are deemed to be impaired. No such fair value impairment was recognised during the years ended 31 December 2020 or 2019. 

7.  retirement plan
The Company sponsors a defined-contribution 401(k) retirement plan covering eligible employees. Participating employees may voluntarily 
contribute up to limits provided by the Internal Revenue Code. The Company matches employee contributions equal to 50% of the salary deferral 
contributions, with a maximum Company contribution of 3% of the employees’ eligible compensation. In the years ended 31 December 2020 and 
2019, Company matching contributions amounted to $351,500 and $277,700, respectively.

8.  Income taxes
The Company did not recognise a provision (benefit) for income taxes in 2020 or 2019. Based on the Company’s historical operating performance, 
the Company has provided a full valuation allowance against its net deferred tax assets.

Net deferred tax assets as of 31 December are presented in the table below:

Deferred tax assets:
Net operating loss carryforwards
Research and development credits
Stock-based compensation
Deferred revenue
Lease liability
Accruals and other
Deferred tax liabilities:
ROU asset
Depreciation

Valuation allowance

Net deferred tax assets

2020
US$

2019
US$

14,998,000 
875,400 
1,662,600 
1,387,200 
566,900
971,700 

12,842,100 
875,400 
1,146,200 
965,800 
647,800
652,700 

(538,500)
–

 (630,300)
(25,300)

19,923,300 
(19,923,300)

16,474,500 
 (16,474,500)

–

–

The Federal net operating loss (NOL) carryforwards of approximately $57.8m as of 31 December 2020 will begin to expire in various years beginning 
in 2025. The use of NOL carryforwards is limited on an annual basis under Internal Revenue Code Section 382 when there is a change in ownership 
(as defined by this code section). Based on changes in Company ownership in the past, the Company believes that the use of its NOL carryforwards 
generated prior to the date of the change is limited on an annual basis; NOL carryforwards generated subsequent to the date of change in 
ownership can be used without limitation. The use of the Company’s NOL carryforwards may be restricted further if there are future changes in 
Company ownership. Additionally, despite the net operating loss carryforwards, the Company may have a future tax liability due to state tax 
requirements. 

Income tax expense reconciled to the tax computed at statutory rates for the years ended 31 December is as follows:

Federal income taxes (benefit) at statutory rates
State income taxes (benefit), net of Federal benefit
Windfall tax benefits
Permanent differences, rate changes and other
Change in valuation allowance

Total income tax expense

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2020
US$

(2,481,400)
(787,600)
(556,900)
377,100
3,448,800 

2019
US$

(2,707,900)
(898,800)
(40,200)
 (29,700)
3,676,600 

–

–

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9. Commitments and contingencies 
Operating leases
From 2009 through September 2019 the Company entered into various new and amended leases for office and laboratory space. A member of the 
Company’s Board of Directors is the CEO and board member of the lessor of certain of these leases for which the rent payments totalled $623,000 
and $416,800 in 2020 and 2019, respectively. 

All the Company’s long-term office and laboratory leases expire in October 2023 and provide for annual increases to the base rent of between 3% 
and 5%. The current monthly base lease payment for all office and laboratory leases is approximately $56,100. In addition to base rent, the 
Company pays a prorated share of common area maintenance (CAM) costs for the entire building, which is adjusted annually based on actual 
expenses incurred. None of the Company’s current operating leases contain any renewal provisions. 

All the Company’s long-term office and laboratory leases are classified as operating leases. The Company used a discount rate of 8% in calculating 
its lease liability under its operating leases. The September 2019 lease agreements and modifications resulted in the Company establishing 
approximately $2,209,200 of ROU assets and $2,247,400 of lease liabilities. 

At 31 December 2020, the Company had a $1,728,300 ROU asset, a $572,500 short-term lease liability and $1,234,600 long-term lease liability 
related to its operating leases. 

In July 2020, the Company commenced a one-year office lease providing for monthly payments of $2,900. The Company applied the practical 
expedient and consequently, no ROU asset or lease liability was recognised for this short-term lease.

At 31 December 2020, the weighted average remaining lease term for our operating leases was 2.8 years. 

Finance leases
In 2020, the Company entered into a three-year laboratory equipment lease that expires in April 2023. The lease provides for monthly payments of 
approximately $9,200 per month and includes an end-of-lease bargain purchase option. The lease is classified as a finance lease. The Company 
used a discount rate of 5.5% in calculating its lease liability under this finance lease resulting in the establishment of approximately a $301,700 ROU 
asset and offsetting lease liabilities.

At 31 December 2020, the Company had a $218,300 ROU asset, a $100,000 short-term lease liability included in ‘Accrued expenses and other’ 
and a $142,200 long-term lease liability included in ‘Other liabilities’ related to its finance lease.

All leases
Lease costs for the years ended 31 December are as follows:

Finance lease cost

Amortisation of ROU asset
Interest on expense
Operating lease cost
Short-term lease cost
Variable lease cost

Total lease cost

Maturities of lease liabilities as of 31 December 2020 were as follows:

2021
2022
2023

Total lease payments
Discount factor

Present value of lease liabilities

2020
US$

2019
US$

83,400
14,400
673,900
19,100
289,500 

–
–
551,100
–
217,700 

1,080,300

768,800 

Operating Leases
US$

Finance Leases
US$

696,300 
717,400 
614,800

2,028,500
(221,400)

1,807,100 

110,800 
110,800 
36,900

258,500
 (16,300)

242,200 

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10. Subsequent events
In preparing these consolidated financial statements, the Company has evaluated events and transactions for potential recognition or disclosure 
through 20 April 2021, the date the consolidated financial statements were available to be issued.

In February 2021, the Company completed a private placement offering of 5,740,000 shares of its Common Stock. The shares were sold at a price 
of £7.00 (or approximately $9.64) per share generating approximately £40.2m (or approximately $55.3m) of gross proceeds.

In March 2021, the Company paid off, in full, all amounts due under its $5m Midcap term loan in accordance with its terms.

In the first quarter of 2021, the Company elected to conclude all preclinical and clinical activities related to the CARMA® platform which were 
substantially completed by March 2021.

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MaxCyte, Inc.
22 Firstfield Road, Suite 110, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, USA

nOTICe OF AnnUAL GenerAL MeeTInG OF STOCKHOLDerS
An Annual General Meeting of stockholders of MaxCyte, Inc. (the “Meeting”) is planned to be held on 29 October 2021 to consider and act upon: 
(i) the re-election of Will Brooke as Class III Director to serve for three years, beginning on the date of the Meeting; (ii) the re-election of John
Johnston as Class III Director to serve for three years, beginning on the date of the Meeting; (iii) the re-election of J. Stark Thompson as a Class III
Director to serve for three years, beginning on the date of the Meeting; (iv) the re-election of Richard Douglas as a Class III Director to serve for three
years, beginning on the date of the Meeting; (v) the reappointment of CohnReznick LLP as auditors and to authorise the Audit Committee to fix their
remuneration; and (vi) any other business that the Board of Directors may duly elect to present to the shareholders for consideration.

Formal notice and resolutions, along with the Annual General Meeting Proxy Card and Form of Direction, will be circulated on or about 10 September 
2021 to shareholders of record on or about that date.

Ron Holtz
Company Secretary, Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
MaxCyte, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, USA

20 April 2021

 © 2020 MAXCYTE, INC.

MAXCYTE®, ExPERT®, CARMA®, MAXCYTE STX®, 
MAXCYTE ATX®, MAXCYTE GT®, MAXCYTE VLX®, FLOW 
TRANSFECTION®, FLOW ELECTROPORATION®, ANY CELL. 
ANY MOLECULE. ANY SCALE.®, GTX® Logo, ATX® Logo, and 
STX® Logo are trademarks of MaxCyte, Inc. registered in the 
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. CARMA Cell Therapies™, 
ExPERT ATX™, ExPERT GTX™, and ExPERT STX™ are 
trademarks of MaxCyte, Inc.

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