MaxCyte delivered a consensus-beating 30% uplift in full-year 2019 (FY19) revenues to US$21.6mln underpinned by the release of milestone payments from its commercial partners as programmes advanced through clinical studies, and by a 25% five-year revenue compound annualised growth rate (CAGR). There are a number of positive trends including increasing recognition of the company’s cell engineering technology, which is regarded as the gold standard in non-viral cell engineering, as well as strong momentum from financing in the cell and gene therapy sector, which attracted nearly US$10bn of global financing in 2019. The company’s wholly-owned CARMA Cell Therapies subsidiary is accelerating an independent funding strategy to be completed in 2020, as the lead clinical programme recently advanced into a fourth and final dosing cohort.