---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-039576"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TKNO"
cik: "0001850902"
company_name: "Alpha Teknova, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-04-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T03:52:11.911892+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Alpha Teknova appoints Grant Thornton as auditor; EY flagged going concern

## Summary
- Audit committee approved Grant Thornton as independent auditor effective March 26, 2024, replacing Ernst & Young.
- EY's 2023 audit report contained an explanatory paragraph regarding the company's ability to continue as a going concern.
- A material weakness in internal controls identified for 2022 was remediated as of the 2023 annual report.
- No disagreements or reportable events occurred between the company and EY except the previously disclosed material weakness.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-039576
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TKNO
- cik: 0001850902
- company_name: Alpha Teknova, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-04-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1850902/000095017024039576/0000950170-24-039576-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1850902/000095017024039576/tkno-20240326.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Alpha Teknova, Inc. dismissed Ernst & Young LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Ernst & Young LLP
  - Successor: Grant Thornton LLP
  source text: In connection with the Company’s appointment of Grant Thornton as its independent registered public accounting firm, on March 26, 2024, the Audit Committee dismissed Ernst & Young as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1850902/000095017024039576/0000950170-24-039576-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  Alpha Teknova, Inc. engaged Grant Thornton LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: Grant Thornton LLP
  source text: On March 26, 2024, the audit committee of the Board of Directors (the "Audit Committee") of Alpha Teknova, Inc. (the “Company”) approved the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP (“Grant Thornton”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, effective March 26, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1850902/000095017024039576/0000950170-24-039576-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.