8/5/2026

speaker
Rob
Operator

Thank you for standing by. Welcome to Schrodinger's conference call to review second quarter 2026 financial results. My name is Rob and I will be your operator for today's call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you'd like to ask a question during this time, simply press star, then the number one on your telephone keypad. Please be advised that this call is being recorded at the company's request. Now I would like to introduce your host for today's conference, Ms. Jaren Madden, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer and Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

speaker
Jaren Madden
Chief Corporate Affairs Officer and Head of Investor Relations

Thank you and good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to today's call, during which we will provide an update on the company and review our second quarter 2026 financial results. Earlier today, we issued the press release summarizing our financial results and progress across the company, which is available on our website at schrodinger.com. During today's call, management will make statements that are forward-looking and made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, without limitation, statements related to our outlook for the full year 2026 and Third Quarter 2026, our plans to accelerate the growth of our software business and advance our therapeutics portfolio, the capabilities and potential advantages of Bunsen, our agentic AI co-scientist, the clinical potential and properties of our and our collaborators' compounds, the use of our cash resources, as well as our future expenses. These forward-looking statements reflect our current views about our plans, intentions, expectations, strategies, and prospects, which are based on the information currently available to us and on assumptions we have made. Actual results may differ materially due to a number of important factors, including the considerations described in the risk factors section and elsewhere in the filings we make with the SEC, including our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026. These forward-looking statements represent our views only as of today, and we caution you that, except as required by law, we may not update them in the future, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Also included in today's call are certain non-GAAP financial measures. These non-GAAP financial measures are not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and should be considered only in addition to, and not a substitute for or superior to, GAAP measures. Please refer to the tables at the end of our press release, which is available on our website, for reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. This afternoon, Ramy Farid, our CEO, will review our recent progress. Then Richie Jain, Chief Financial Officer, will discuss our financial results and 2026 guidance. Karen Akinsanya, President, Head of Therapeutics, R&D, and Chief Strategy Officer, Partnerships, will provide an update on our therapeutics portfolio. Pat Lorton, our Chief Technology and Chief Operating Officer, will join us for the Q&A. And with that, I will turn the call over to Ramy.

speaker
Ramy Farid
Chief Executive Officer

Thanks, Jaren, and thank you everyone for joining us today. We are very pleased with our momentum across the business in the second quarter. The biopharma industry is increasingly recognizing that a computationally driven, predict-first approach is a critical driver for accelerating drug discovery timelines and improving probabilities of success. Our ACV growth of 27%, driven by broad-based demand, reflects this ongoing shift. In the quarter, we saw a continued scale-up within large customers, uptake of new products, an improved biotech sector, and new customers across life sciences and material science. Thank you for joining us. By executing complex multi-step workflows, Bunsen helps expert computational chemists work more efficiently and run more design projects. Bunsen will also enable, more broadly, drug hunters to access our software and run advanced simulations, expanding our user base over time. Our long-standing collaborators NVIDIA and Google Cloud are providing additional tools and compute resources to support early access to Bunsen. Our throughput-based licensing model ensures we are positioned to capture the value of the significantly increased platform usage we expect Bunsen to drive. We are also very pleased that Bristol Myers Squibb, a longtime customer and collaborator, is deploying Bunsen and expanding their use of the platform across their research organization. Our new strategic software agreement with BMS, announced earlier today, allows us to deploy Bunsen in conjunction with our computational technologies designed to enable large-scale chemical exploration. We view BMS's implementation as a compelling model for how large scale deployment can expand platform usage and integration across the industry. Our commitment to scientific innovation is a key component of our strategy to expand our addressable market and access new budgets. Our predictive toxicology solution is a clear example of this approach. Our advanced physics-based technologies predict off target binding risks before synthesis, enabling customers to address safety liabilities early in discovery programs and deliver optimized candidates with substantial time and cost savings. Commercial evaluations are going well and predictive talks has already contributed to our 2026 ACV. As the promise of AI dominates the dialogue in both drug discovery and materials design, I'd like to take a moment to discuss what differentiates Schrodinger's platform. For molecular discovery, AI is a powerful tool enabled by the data used to train it. Thank you for watching. Thank you for joining us. None of this progress would be possible without our team, and I want to thank our employees for their dedication and hard work in advancing our mission. We are executing well against our strategy, expanding our software footprint, and continuing to build long-term value across our therapeutics portfolio. I'll now turn the call over to Richie to review our financial results.

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