Organization and basis of presentation

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2014

Organization and basis of presentation

Organization and basis of presentation

1. Organization and basis of presentation

OvaScience, Inc., a Delaware corporation incorporated on April 5, 2011, is a life science company developing proprietary potential treatments for female infertility based on scientific discoveries about the existence of egg precursor cells. As used in these condensed consolidated financial statements, the terms “OvaScience,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the business of OvaScience, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, OvaScience Securities Corporation. Our operations to date have been limited to organizing and staffing , business planning, raising capital, acquiring and developing our technology, identifying potential fertility treatments, planning and conducting a study in humans for our most advanced fertility treatment and undertaking preclinical studies of certain potential fertility treatments. We have commenced our planned principal operations but have not generated any significant revenues to date. Accordingly, we are considered to be in the development stage.

We are subject to a number of risks similar to other life science companies in the development stage, including, but not limited to, the need to obtain adequate additional funding, possible failure to provide our treatments to IVF clinics to gain clinical experience in select countries outside of the United States, the need to obtain marketing approval for certain of our treatments, competitors developing new technological innovations, the need to successfully commercialize and gain market acceptance of our fertility treatments and protection of proprietary technology. If we do not successfully commercialize any of treatments, we will be unable to generate treatment revenue or achieve profitability. As of March 31, 2014 we had a deficit accumulated during the development stage of approximately $53.0 million.

Liquidity

We have incurred annual net operating losses in each year since our inception. We have not generated any treatment revenues related to our primary business purpose and have financed our operations primarily through private and public placements of our preferred stock and common stock. We have not completed development of any treatment and have devoted substantially all of our financial resources and efforts to raising capital and research and development. We expect to continue to incur significant expenses and increasing operating losses for at least the next several years.

We believe that our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of approximately $89.5 million at March 31, 2014 will be sufficient to fund our current operating plan and allow us to continue as a going concern into 2016. We may be required to obtain additional funding in order to continue to fund our operations for 2016 and beyond. There can be no assurances, however, that the current operating plan will be achieved or that additional funding will be available on terms acceptable to us, or at all.