Note 10. Long-Term Debt

On August 10, 2022, the Company entered into a senior secured term loan facility with SWK Funding LLC, as agent, and other lenders party thereto for an aggregate principal amount of $25 million, and the Company amended the facility in May 2023, March 2024 and September 2024 (as amended, the “SWK Loan Facility”). An initial draw of $21 million was made in August 2022, and an additional $4 million was made on December 14, 2022. The SWK Loan Facility also allowed for the establishment of a separate, new asset-based revolving loan facility of up to $8 million, which was not entered into before termination of the SWK Loan Facility, as described below. The SWK Loan Facility also included both minimum revenue and liquidity covenants, restrictions as to payment of dividends, and was secured by all assets of the Company, subject to certain customary exceptions. See below for discussion of an amendment to the minimum liquidity covenant in May 2025.

All of the SWK Loan Facility borrowings took the form of Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) loans and bore interest at a rate per annum equal to the sum of an applicable margin of (i) 7.75% and the “Term SOFR Rate” (based upon an interest period of 3 months), or (ii) if the Company elected the PIK Interest option (as defined below), 3.75% and the “Term SOFR Rate.” The Company could elect a portion of the interest due, to be paid in-kind at a rate per annum of 4.5% (“PIK Interest”), and such election could be made until November 15, 2025. The “Term SOFR Rate” was subject to a floor of 2.75%. The agreement governing the SWK Loan Facility also included an exit fee equal to 6.5% of the aggregate principal amount funded prior to termination plus $112,500. The weighted average interest rate on the SWK Loan Facility was 12.5% and 13.4% for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

On August 10, 2022 (the “Closing Date”), the Company issued to SWK Funding LLC a warrant (“SWK Warrant”) to purchase, in the aggregate, up to 187,969 shares of Class A common stock of the Company, $0.001 par value per share at an exercise price of $6.65 per share. The SWK Warrant is immediately exercisable for up to 187,969 shares of Class A common stock from time to time on or after the Closing Date.  The exercise price and number of shares of Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the SWK Warrant are subject to adjustment in the event of stock dividends, stock splits and certain other events affecting the SWK common stock. Unless earlier exercised or terminated in accordance with its terms, the SWK Warrant will expire on the seventh anniversary of the Closing Date. Upon issuance, the Company valued the SWK Warrant at approximately $0.6 million using the Black-Scholes model. The recognition of the SWK Warrant as well as deferred financing costs of approximately $0.5 million incurred in securing the SWK Loan Facility served to reduce the recorded value of the associated debt. The debt discount and deferred financing costs are recognized as interest expense through the maturity of the loan.

In May 2025, Elutia entered into a fourth amendment (the “Fourth Amendment”) to the SWK Loan Facility.  The Fourth Amendment, among other things: (i) allowed for 100% of the interest payment due in May 2025 to be paid as PIK Interest, (ii) removed mandatory repayment obligations related to non-ordinary course asset sales, (iii) allowed the Company to request that SWK advance a new term loan in the amount of up to $5.0 million, which advance will be in the sole and absolute discretion of SWK and (iv) fixed the amount of the minimum liquidity covenant to be $8.0 million.  In consideration for the Fourth Amendment, the Company agreed to issue SWK 50,000 shares of its Class A Common Stock in a private placement.  

In August 2025, the Company entered into a fifth amendment (the “Fifth Amendment”) to the SWK Loan Facility, which, among other things, provided that the following amounts were capitalized into the unpaid principal balance of the SWK Loan Facility: (i) all accrued and unpaid interest due and owing to the lenders on the payment date in August 2025, (ii) a $50,000 amendment fee agreed to by the Company on June 30, 2025, and (iii) a $10,000 amendment fee to be paid pursuant to the Fifth Amendment.

Prior to the May 2025 amendment described above, the SWK Loan Facility Agreement required certain mandatory prepayments, subject to certain exceptions, with: (1) 100% of any net casualty proceeds in excess of $250,000 and (2) for non-ordinary course asset sales, an amount equal to the difference between (x) the proportion of divested gross profit (as defined in the SWK Loan Facility Agreement) to the Company’s total gross profit (as defined in the SWK Loan Facility Agreement) multiplied by the outstanding loans under the SWK Loan Facility and (y) the difference between $1,000,000 and the aggregate sale proceeds of any assets previously sold during the fiscal year. The closing of the divestiture of the Orthobiologics Business in November 2023 triggered a mandatory prepayment of $4.0 million. Of such amount, $2.0 million was paid shortly after closing of the divestiture in 2023 and the remainder was paid in February 2024 based on mutual agreement between the parties.

On October 1, 2025, in connection with and through the proceeds of the sale of the Company’s CIED Business described in Note 2, Elutia fully repaid the SWK Loan Facility as required by the terms of the loan agreement. The outstanding principal, including the accrued exit fee, and accrued interest recognized as of this date totaled approximately $26.9 million. The total payment by the Company to SWK in full satisfaction of the debt was $27.8 million, yielding a loss on early repayment of debt of $1.3 million (including the write-off of the unamortized debt discount and deferred financing costs of $0.4 million) which is recorded within Other expense (income), net in the accompanying statement of operations.

As of December 31, 2024, the Company’s long-term debt was comprised of SWK Loan Facility balance, net of unamortized discount and deferred financing fees of $23.9 million less the current portion of $1.3 million resulting from an  amendment to the SWK Loan Facility in September 2024 which, among other items, served to defer the commencement of principal repayment from November 2024 to November 2025.

In addition to the above, in 2024, the Company financed the annual premiums of certain insurance policies through short-term financing arrangements and included the liabilities associated with such arrangements within accrued liabilities in accompanying consolidated balance sheet. The fair value of all debt instruments, which is based on inputs considered to be Level 2 under the fair value hierarchy, approximates the respective carrying values as of December 31, 2025 and 2024.

Historical Timeline

Fiscal YearFiled
2025Mar 13, 2026Showing above
2024Mar 11, 2025
2023Mar 11, 2024
2022Mar 23, 2023
2021Mar 8, 2022
2020Mar 15, 2021

About Debt Disclosures

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