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Related Party Transactions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2023
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions

16. Related party transactions

Orbital

As described in Note 11, the Company has significant influence over, but does not control, Orbital through its noncontrolling representation on Orbital's board of directors and the Company’s equity interest in Orbital. The Company and Orbital are also parties to a collaboration and license agreement and have multiple common board members.

Founders

For the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, the Company made payments of $0.4 million, $0.4 million and $0.5 million, respectively, to its three founder shareholders for scientific consulting and other expenses.

Verve

The Company and Verve are parties to a collaboration and license agreement and had a common board member through the first half of 2022. As of December 31, 2023, the Company owned 546,970 shares of Verve's common stock, the value of which is included in marketable securities in the consolidated balance sheet. See discussion of the collaboration and license agreement in Note 11 and the Company's investment in Verve's common stock in Note 5.

The Company purchased an immaterial amount of certain materials from Verve, which is recorded as research and development expenses within the accompanying consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive loss for the years ended December 31, 2022, and 2021 respectively. The Company did not purchase any materials from Verve during the year ended December 31, 2023.

In October 2021, the Company entered into an agreement pursuant to which Verve subleased 12,000 square feet of the Company’s existing office and laboratory space for a term of one year which began in December 2021. The Company recorded $1.3 million and $0.1 million of sublease income related to this sublease within the accompanying consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive loss for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, as well as its proportionate costs for the landlord’s operating expense, insurance, property taxes, and utilities. As of December 31, 2022, the Verve sublease agreement had expired and as such no sublease income was recognized during the year ended December 31, 2023.

Prime Medicine

The Company and Prime Medicine are parties to a collaboration and license agreement and have a common founder and had a common board member into the third quarter of 2022. As of December 31, 2023, the Company owned 1,608,337 shares of Prime's common stock, the value of which is included in marketable securities in the consolidated balance sheet. See discussion of the collaboration and license agreement in Note 11 and the Company's investment in Prime's common stock in Note 5.