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Cash Runway

Biotech Finance

Cash runway is the length of time a company can keep operating before it exhausts its cash, calculated from its cash balance and quarterly burn rate. For pre-revenue biotech it is a critical risk metric, since a short runway often forces dilutive financing.

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