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in or implied by forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those discussed below and elsewhere in this Form
−Removed: 10-K, particularly in the section entitled “ Risk Factors .” Unless we state otherwise or the context otherwise requires, the
+Added: 10-K, particularly in the section entitled “ Risk Factors.
+Added: ” Unless we state otherwise or the context otherwise requires, the
terms “we,” “us,” “our” and the “Company” refer Auddia Inc.
and its subsidiaries.
−Removed: Auddia is a technology
−Removed: company headquartered in Boulder, CO that is reinventing how consumers engage with audio through the development of a proprietary AI platform
−Removed: for audio and innovative technologies for podcasts.
−Removed: Auddia is leveraging these technologies within its industry-first audio Superapp,
−Removed: faidr (previously known as the Auddia App).
−Removed: faidr gives consumers
−Removed: the opportunity to listen to any AM/FM radio station with commercial breaks replaced with personalized audio content, including popular
−Removed: and new music, news, and weather.
−Removed: The faidr app represents the first-time consumers can combine the local content uniquely provided by
−Removed: AM/FM radio with commercial-free and personalized listening many consumers demand from digital-media consumption.
−Removed: In addition to commercial-free
−Removed: AM/FM, faidr includes podcasts – also with ads removed or easily skipped by listeners – as well as exclusive content, branded
−Removed: faidrRadio, which includes new artist discovery, curated music stations, and Music Casts.
−Removed: Music Casts are unique to faidr.
−Removed: Hosts and DJs
−Removed: can combine on-demand talk segments with dynamic music streaming, which allows users to hear podcasts with full music track plays embedded
−Removed: in the episodes.
−Removed: Auddia has also developed
−Removed: a differentiated podcasting capability with ad-skipping features and also provides a unique suite of tools that helps podcasters create
−Removed: additional digital content for their podcast episodes as well as plan their episodes, build their brand, and monetize their content with
−Removed: new content distribution channels.
−Removed: This podcasting feature also gives users the ability to go deeper into the stories through supplemental,
−Removed: digital content, and eventually comment and contribute their own content to episode feeds.
−Removed: The combination of AM/FM streaming and podcasting,
−Removed: with Auddia’s unique, technology-driven differentiators, addresses large and rapidly growing audiences.
−Removed: The Company has developed
−Removed: its AI platform on top of Google’s TensorFlow open-source library that is being “taught” to know the difference between
+Added: Auddia (the “Company”) is an AI technology
+Added: company headquartered in Boulder, CO that is reinventing how consumers engage with audio through the development of its faidr app, an
+Added: industry-first audio platform, which utilizes proprietary AI technology to personalize and customize both radio and podcast listening
+Added: faidr allows users to
+Added: listen to AM/FM radio stations without unwanted commercial breaks.
+Added: The app replaces these ad breaks in real time with streaming music
+Added: similar in format and genre to the radio station being played.
+Added: The faidr app represents the first-time consumers can combine the local
+Added: content uniquely provided by AM/FM radio with commercial-free and personalized listening many consumers demand from digital-media consumption.
+Added: In addition to commercial-free AM/FM, faidr includes podcasts – also with ads removed or easily skipped by listeners – as
+Added: well as exclusive content, which includes new artist discovery, curated music stations, and exclusive music podcasts that allow hosts
+Added: to play full tracks within the episode.
+Added: The combination of AM/FM
+Added: streaming and podcasting, with Auddia’s unique, AI technology-driven differentiators, addresses large (radio streamers) and rapidly
+Added: growing (podcast listeners) audiences.
+Added: We have developed our
+Added: AI platform on top of Google’s TensorFlow open-source library that is being “taught” to know the difference between
all types of audio content on the radio.
−Removed: For instance, the platform recognizes the difference between a commercial and a song and is learning
−Removed: the differences between all other content to include weather reports, traffic, news, sports, DJ conversation, etc.
−Removed: Not only does the technology
−Removed: learn the differences between the various types of audio segments, but it also identifies the beginning and end of each piece of content.
−Removed: The Company is leveraging
−Removed: this technology platform within its premium AM/FM radio listening experience through the faidr App.
−Removed: The faidr App is intended to be downloaded
−Removed: by consumers who will pay a subscription fee in order to listen to any streaming AM/FM radio station and podcasts, all with commercial
−Removed: interruptions removed from the listening experience, in addition to the faidrRadio exclusive content offerings.
−Removed: Advanced features will
−Removed: allow consumers to skip any content heard on the station and request request audio content on-demand.
−Removed: We believe the faidr App represents
−Removed: a significant differentiated audio streaming product, or Superapp, that will be the first to come to market since the emergence of popular
−Removed: streaming music apps such as Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, etc.
−Removed: We believe that the most significant point of differentiation
−Removed: is that in addition to ad-free AM/FM streaming and ad-free podcasts, the faidr App is intended to deliver non-music content that includes
−Removed: local sports, news, weather, traffic and the discovery of new music alongside exclusive programming.
−Removed: No other radio streaming app available
−Removed: today, including category leaders like TuneIn, iHeart, and Audacy, can compete with faidr’s full product offerings.
−Removed: The Company launched
−Removed: an MVP version of faidr through several consumer trials in 2021 to measure consumer interest and engagement with the App.
−Removed: launched on February 15, 2022, and included all major U.S.
+Added: For instance, the platform recognizes the difference between a commercial and a song and DJ conversation.
+Added: Not only does the technology learn the differences between the various types of audio segments, but it also identifies the beginning and
+Added: end of each piece of content.
+Added: The faidr app is intended
+Added: to be downloaded by consumers who are willing to pay for a customizable, commercial-free listening experience.
+Added: Our advanced features allow
+Added: subscribers to skip any content heard on the station and request audio content on-demand.
+Added: We believe the faidr App represents a significant
+Added: differentiated audio streaming product, the first to give audio streamers a more personalized middle ground between passive content like
+Added: broadcast radio and fully on-demand content like Spotify.
+Added: No other audio streaming app available today, including category leaders like
+Added: TuneIn, iHeart, and Audacy, can compete with faidr’s full product offerings.
+Added: We launched an MVP version of faidr through several
+Added: consumer trials in 2021 to measure consumer interest and engagement with the App.
+Added: The full app launched on February 15, 2022, and included
+Added: all major U.S.
radio stations in the US.
−Removed: In February 2023, we added faidrRadio, our exclusive
−Removed: content offerings, to the app.
−Removed: Podcasts (standard) were added to the app for the iOS version before the end of Q1 2023 as planned and
−Removed: added to the Android app in May of 2023.
−Removed: Podcast functionality will continue to be enhanced through 2024, including the deployment of
−Removed: the Company’s ad-reduction technology.
−Removed: The Company also developed
−Removed: a testbed differentiated podcasting capability called Vodacast, which leveraged technologies and proven product concepts to differentiate
−Removed: its podcasts offering from other competitors in the radio-streaming product category.
−Removed: With podcasting growing and predicted to grow
−Removed: at a rapid rate, the Vodacast podcast platform was conceptualized to fill a void in the emerging audio media space.
−Removed: The platform was built
−Removed: to become the preferred podcasting solution for podcasters by enabling them to deliver digital content feeds that match the audio of their
−Removed: podcast episodes, and by enabling podcasters to make additional revenue from new digital advertising channels, subscription channels,
−Removed: on-demand fees for exclusive content, and through direct donations from their listeners.
−Removed: Throughout 2023, Auddia has been migrating their
−Removed: podcasting capabilities into the flagship faidr app with the intention to sunset the Vodacast platform and instead bring the advanced
−Removed: podcasting functionality that was found on Vodacast into faidr as part of the overall strategy to build a single audio Superapp.
−Removed: includes Auddia’s new podcast ad-reduction technology.
−Removed: Today, podcasters do not have a preference as
−Removed: to where their listeners access their episodes, as virtually all listening options (mobile apps and web players) deliver only their podcast
−Removed: By creating significant differentiation on which they can make net new and higher margin revenue, we believe that podcasters will
−Removed: promote faidr to their listeners, thus creating a powerful, organic marketing dynamic.
−Removed: One innovative and proprietary part of Auddia’s
−Removed: podcast capabilities, originally presented on their Vodacast differentiated podcasting capability, is the availability of tools to create
−Removed: and distribute an interactive digital feed, which supplements podcast episode audio with additional digital.
−Removed: These content feeds allow
−Removed: podcasters to tell deeper stories to their listeners while giving podcasters access to digital revenue for the first time.
−Removed: will be able to build these interactive feeds using The Podcast Hub, a content management system that was originally developed and trialed
−Removed: as part of Auddia’s Vodacast platform, which also serves as a tool to plan and manage podcast episodes.
−Removed: The digital feed activates
−Removed: a new digital ad channel that turns every audio ad into a direct-response, relevant-to-the-story, digital ad, increasing the effectiveness
−Removed: and value of their established audio ad model.
−Removed: The feed also presents a richer listening experience, as any element of a podcast episode
−Removed: can be supplemented with images, videos, text and web links.
−Removed: This feed will appear fully synchronized in the faidr mobile App, and it
−Removed: also can be hosted and accessed independently (e.g., through any browser), making the content feed universally distributable.
−Removed: Over time, users will be able to comment, and
−Removed: podcasters will be able to grant some users publishing rights to add content directly into the feed on their behalf.
−Removed: This will create
−Removed: another first for podcasting, a dialog between creator and fan, synchronized to the episode content.
−Removed: The interactive feed for podcasts
−Removed: has been developed and tested on Vodacast and is expected to be another differentiator added into faidr for podcast listeners later in
−Removed: The podcast capabilities within faidr will also
−Removed: introduce a unique and industry first multi-channel, highly flexible set of revenue channels that podcasters can activate in combination
−Removed: to allow listeners to choose how they want to consume and pay for content.
−Removed: “Flex Revenue” allows podcasters to continue to
−Removed: run their standard audio ad model and complement those ads with direct response enabled digital ads in each episode content feed, increasing
−Removed: the value of advertising on any podcast.
−Removed: “Flex Revenue” will also activate subscriptions, on-demand fees for content (e.g.,
−Removed: listen without audio ads for a micro payment fee) and direct donations from listeners.
−Removed: Using these channels in combination, podcasters
−Removed: can maximize revenue generation and exercise higher margin monetization models, beyond basic audio advertising.
−Removed: “Flex Revenue”
−Removed: and the initial inclusion of the new revenue channels that come with it will be added to podcasting in the faidr app, and the first elements
−Removed: of this new monetization capability is expected to be commercially available in 2024, beginning with subscription plans to access ad-reduction
+Added: In February 2023, we added faidrRadio, our exclusive content offerings, to the app.
+Added: were added to the app for the iOS version before the end of Q1 2023 as planned and added to the Android app in May of 2023.
+Added: addition of podcasts, exclusive content, and continued enhancement of its ad-free accuracy and functionality, the faidr app now boast
+Added: a strong 30-day retention rate of above 20% and is in the beginning phases of rolling out subscription products to users.
The faidr mobile App
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with proceeds from the February 2021 IPO, Series A warrants exercised in July 2021 and common share issuance during June of 2023.
−Removed: obtained debt financing through a related party during November 2022 and April 2023.
−Removed: In addition, we sold common shares during April 2023
−Removed: and June 2023 pursuant to our equity line facility.
−Removed: Since its inception, we have incurred significant operating losses.
−Removed: Since inception
−Removed: we have incurred significant operating losses.
+Added: obtained debt financing through a related party during November 2022 and April 2023, which was subsequently repaid in April 2024.
+Added: we sold common shares during 2023 and 2024 pursuant to our equity line facility.
+Added: Since our inception, we have incurred significant operating
As of December 31, 2024, we had an accumulated deficit of $89,428,436.
−Removed: Our ability to generate
−Removed: product revenue sufficient to achieve profitability will depend heavily on the successful development and commercialization of one or
−Removed: more of our Apps.
−Removed: We expect that our expenses and capital requirements will increase substantially in connection with our ongoing activities,
−Removed: particularly if and as we:
+Added: Our ability to generate product revenue sufficient to achieve
+Added: profitability will depend heavily on the successful development and commercialization of one or more of our Apps.
+Added: We expect that our expenses
+Added: and capital requirements will increase substantially in connection with our ongoing activities, particularly if and as we:
nationally launch our faidr App and as we continue training our proprietary AI technology and make product enhancements;
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we had cash of $2,706,319.
−Removed: The Company secured approximately $3.6 million in additional financing in February and March 2024.
−Removed: had approximately $2.8 million in cash and approximately $4M million in debt due at March 31, 2024 and the Company is actively working
−Removed: to refinance the existing debt and raise additional capital, but cannot be certain of the outcome and timing.
−Removed: We will need additional
−Removed: funding to complete the development of our full product line and scale products with a demonstrated market fit.
−Removed: Management has plans to
−Removed: secure such additional funding.
−Removed: However, if we are unable to raise capital when needed or on acceptable terms, we would be forced to delay,
−Removed: reduce, or eliminate our technology development and commercialization efforts.
−Removed: To accelerate
−Removed: user acquisition, revenue, and cash flow, the Company has explored numerous potential acquisition targets of AM/FM streaming aggregators
−Removed: over the past year and a half and continues to explore new opportunities.
−Removed: At present, the Company is in advanced active discussions with
−Removed: two potential targets and seeking to execute one or more agreements in the near term.
−Removed: These business development transactions would require
−Removed: additional funding.
+Added: We secured approximately $10.9 million in additional financing in 2024 and paid off $2.75 million of Secured
+Added: Bridge Notes.
+Added: We will need additional funding to complete the development of our full product line and scale products with a demonstrated
+Added: Management has plans to secure such additional funding.
+Added: However, if we are unable to raise capital when needed or on acceptable
+Added: terms, we would be forced to delay, reduce, or eliminate our technology development and commercialization efforts.
Recent Developments
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Nasdaq Deficiency Notices
−Removed: The Nasdaq listing rules require listed securities
−Removed: to maintain a minimum bid price of $1.00 per share.
−Removed: As previously reported in our Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 28, 2023,
−Removed: we received a written notice from Nasdaq indicating that the Company was not in compliance with the $1.00 minimum bid price requirement
−Removed: set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) for continued listing.
−Removed: As a result, the Nasdaq staff determined to delist the Company’s
−Removed: Common Stock from Nasdaq, unless the Company timely requests an appeal of the Staff’s determination to a Hearings Panel (the “Panel”),
−Removed: pursuant to the procedures set forth in the Nasdaq Listing Rule 5800 Series.
−Removed: Our hearing with the Panel occurred on January 18, 2024.
−Removed: On November 21, 2023,
−Removed: we received a written notice from Nasdaq indicating that we are not in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(b)(1), which requires
−Removed: companies listed on The Nasdaq Capital Market to maintain a minimum of $2,500,000 in stockholders’ equity for continued listing
−Removed: (the “Stockholders’ Equity Requirement”).
−Removed: In our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2023,
−Removed: we reported stockholders’ equity of $2,415,012, and, as a result, did not satisfy Listing Rule 5550(b)(1).
−Removed: Nasdaq’s November
−Removed: written notice had no immediate impact on the listing of our common stock.
−Removed: Our hearing with the Panel occurred on January 18, 2024
−Removed: and addressed all outstanding listing compliance matters, including compliance with the Stockholders’ Equity Notice as well as compliance
−Removed: with the Bid Price Requirement.
−Removed: On January 30, 2024, the Panel granted the Company’s
−Removed: request for an exception to Nasdaq’s listing rules until April 22, 2024, to demonstrate compliance with all applicable continued
−Removed: listing requirements for the Nasdaq Capital Market.
−Removed: On March 20, 2024, we received a letter from Nasdaq stating we had
−Removed: regained compliance with the minimum bid requirement.
−Removed: The Panel reminded us that although we regained compliance with the minimum bid
−Removed: requirement, we are also required to regain compliance with the equity requirement.
−Removed: Therefore, this matter will remain open until we demonstrate
−Removed: compliance with all requirements.
−Removed: We intend to consider
−Removed: all options to regain and maintain compliance with all Nasdaq continued listing requirements.
+Added: During 2022, 2023 and 2024, the Company received
+Added: notices from Nasdaq indicating that the Company was not in compliance with (i) Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(b)(1), which requires companies
+Added: listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market to maintain a minimum of $2,500,000 in stockholders’ equity for continued listing or (ii) Nasdaq
+Added: Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) which requires companies listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market to maintain a minimum of a $1.00 bid price for continued
+Added: On May 24, 2024, we received
+Added: a letter from Nasdaq indicating that we had regained compliance with the equity requirement in Listing rule 5550(b) (1) (the Equity Rule”.)
+Added: We will be subject to a Mandatory Panel Monitor for a period of one year from the date of the letter in accordance with application of
+Added: Listing Rule 5815(d)(4)(B).
+Added: On October 16, 2024,
+Added: we received a written notice from Nasdaq indicating that we were not in compliance with the $1.00 minimum bid price requirement set forth
+Added: in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) for continued listing.
+Added: The bid price notice does not result in the immediate delisting of our common
+Added: stock from the Nasdaq Capital Market.
+Added: The bid price notice indicated that we have 180 calendar days (or until April 14, 2025) in which
+Added: to regain compliance.
+Added: If at any time during this 180 calendar day period the bid price of our common stock closes at or above $1.00 per
+Added: share for a minimum of ten consecutive business days, the Nasdaq staff will provide us with a written confirmation of compliance and the
+Added: matter will be closed.
+Added: Reverse Share Split
The Company filed an amendment to its Certificate
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Therefore, stockholders with less than 25 shares received one share of stock.
−Removed: The reverse stock split applied to the Company’s outstanding
−Removed: warrants, stock options and restricted stock units.
−Removed: The number of shares of common stock into which these outstanding securities are convertible
−Removed: or exercisable were adjusted proportionately as a result of the reverse stock split.
−Removed: The exercise prices of any outstanding warrants or
−Removed: stock options were also proportionately adjusted in accordance with the terms of those securities and the Company’s equity incentive
+Added: The reverse stock split applied to the Company’s outstanding warrants, stock options and restricted stock units.
+Added: The number of shares
+Added: of common stock into which these outstanding securities are convertible or exercisable were adjusted proportionately as a result of the
+Added: reverse stock split.
+Added: The exercise prices of any outstanding warrants or stock options were also proportionately adjusted in accordance
+Added: with the terms of those securities and the Company’s equity incentive plans.
Impact of Inflation
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31, 2024 and 2023
−Removed: following table summarizes our results of operations:
−Removed: December 31, 2023
−Removed: December 31, 2022
+Added: The following table summarizes our results
+Added: of operations:
+Added: Year Ended December 31,
Operating expenses:
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Loss from operations
−Removed: Other (expense) income:
+Added: Other expense:
Interest expense
−Removed: Interest income
+Added: Change in fair value of warrants
Total other expense
Loss before income taxes
−Removed: (8,807,4958 )
Provision for income taxes
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The decrease in sales and marketing expenses as of December 31, 2024 compared to December 31, 2023 was primarily attributed to reduced
−Removed: marketing promotion costs associated with the national launch of the faidr app.
−Removed: We expect our sales and marketing expenses to fluctuate
−Removed: period by period as we release new upgrades and enhancements within our Apps and look to generate revenue through customer acquisition,
−Removed: retention, and subscription conversion.
+Added: marketing promotion costs.
+Added: We expect our sales and marketing expenses to fluctuate period by period as we release new upgrades and enhancements
+Added: within our apps and look to generate revenue through customer acquisition, retention, and subscription conversion.
Research and development
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The increase resulted primarily from an increase in professional fees, such as, accounting and legal expenses.
−Removed: Depreciation and
Depreciation and amortization
+Added: Depreciation and amortization
expenses increased by $146,764 or 8.0% to $1,987,601 for the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to $1,840,837 for the year ended December
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Total other expenses
−Removed: increased by $1,158,102 to $1,331,128 for the year ended December 31, 2023 compared to $173,026 for the year ended December 31, 2022.
−Removed: The increase is related to actual and imputed interest expense attributed to the Secured Bridge Notes issued during November of 2022 and
+Added: decreased by $526,228 or (39.5%) from $1,331,128 for the year ended December 31, 2023 to $804,900 for the year ended December 31, 2024.
+Added: Interest expense decreased by $172,512 due to the repayment of notes payable to related party in April 2024.
Since our inception in
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Going Concern
−Removed: Our existing cash of $804,556 at December
−Removed: 31, 2023 will only be sufficient to fund our current operating plans into February 2024.
−Removed: The Company secured approximately $3.6 million
−Removed: in additional financing in February and March 2024.
−Removed: The Company had approximately $2.8 million in cash and approximately $4.0 million
−Removed: in debt due at March 31, 2024 and the Company is actively working to refinance the existing debt and raise additional capital, but cannot
−Removed: be certain of the outcome and timing.
−Removed: The Company has based these estimates, however, on assumptions that may prove to be wrong.
−Removed: need additional funding to complete the development of our full product line and scale products with a demonstrated market fit.
−Removed: has plans to secure such additional funding.
−Removed: If we are unable to raise capital when needed or on acceptable terms, we would be forced
−Removed: to delay, reduce, or eliminate our technology development and commercialization efforts.
+Added: Our existing cash was $2,706,319 at December 31,
+Added: We secured approximately $10.9 million in additional financing in 2024 and $0.6 million year-to-date through March 5,
+Added: 2025, which enabled us to pay down $2.75 million in connection with the Secured Bridge Notes in 2024 and will only be sufficient
+Added: to fund our current operating plans into the second quarter of 2025.
+Added: We will need additional funding to complete the development of our
+Added: full product line and scale products with a demonstrated market fit.
+Added: Management has plans to secure such additional funding.
+Added: unable to raise capital when needed or on acceptable terms, we would be forced to delay, reduce, or eliminate our technology development
+Added: and commercialization efforts.
As a result of the Company’s
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Sources of liquidity
−Removed: We have incurred operating losses since our inception
−Removed: and have an accumulated deficit as a result of ongoing efforts to develop and commercialize our faidr app and podcasting apps.
−Removed: As of December
−Removed: 31, 2023, and 2022 we had cash of $804,556 and $1,661,434, respectively.
−Removed: We have a deficiency in working capital in the amount of approximately
−Removed: $3.1 million at December 31, 2023.
−Removed: We anticipate that operating losses and net cash used in operating activities will increase over the
−Removed: next 12 months as we continue to develop and market our products.
−Removed: Our existing cash of $804,556 at December 31, 2023 will only be sufficient
−Removed: to fund our current operating plans into February 2024.
−Removed: The Company secured approximately $3.6 million in additional financing in February
−Removed: and March 2024.
−Removed: The Company had approximately $2.8 million in cash and approximately $4.0 million in debt due at March 31, 2024 and the
−Removed: Company is actively working to refinance the existing debt and raise additional capital, but cannot be certain of the outcome and timing.
−Removed: The Company has based these estimates, however, on assumptions that may prove to be wrong.
−Removed: We will need additional funding to complete
−Removed: the development of our full product line and scale products with a demonstrated market fit.
−Removed: Management has plans to secure such additional
−Removed: If we are unable to raise capital when needed or on acceptable terms, we would be forced to delay, reduce, or eliminate our technology
−Removed: development and commercialization efforts.
+Added: We have incurred
+Added: operating losses since our inception and have an accumulated deficit as a result of ongoing efforts to develop and commercialize our
+Added: faidr and podcasting Apps.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, we had cash and cash equivalents of $2,706,319.
+Added: We have working capital in the
+Added: amount of approximately $2.2 million as of December 31, 2024.
+Added: We anticipate that operating losses and net cash used in operating
+Added: activities will increase over the next 12 months as we continue to develop and market our products.
+Added: We secured $10.9 million of
+Added: additional financing in 2024, which enabled us to pay down $2.75 million in connection with the Secured Bridge Notes and will only
+Added: be sufficient to fund our current operating plans into the second quarter of 2025.
+Added: The Company has based these estimates, however,
+Added: on assumptions that may prove to be wrong.
+Added: We will need additional funding to complete the development of our full product line and
+Added: scale products with a demonstrated market fit.
+Added: Management has plans to secure such additional funding.
+Added: If we are unable to raise
+Added: capital when needed or on acceptable terms, we would be forced to delay, reduce, or eliminate our technology development and
+Added: commercialization efforts.
Interim Bridge Financings
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interest rate and exercisable common stock warrants remained the same.
−Removed: The accredited investor did not exercise the common stock warrants
−Removed: as of December 31, 2023 or subsequent to December 31, 2023 and as of the date of this filing.
Further, in connection
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became exercisable at the time of extension of the maturity date of the Prior Note during May of 2023.
−Removed: In order for the accredited investor to receive
−Removed: common shares from a conversion or exercise of the common stock warrants, an approval is required from the shareholders, if the number
−Removed: of common shares to be issued to the accredited investor, when aggregated with all other shares of common stock beneficially or deemed
−Removed: beneficially owned by the accredited investor would (i) result in the investor owning more than the Beneficial Ownership Limitation (as
−Removed: defined below), as determined in accordance with Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or (ii) otherwise constitute a Change
−Removed: of Control within the meaning of Nasdaq Rule 5635(b).
−Removed: The “Beneficial Ownership Limitation” shall be 19.99% of the number
−Removed: of shares of the common stock outstanding immediately prior to the proposed issuance of shares of common stock.
+Added: In order for the accredited
+Added: investor to receive common shares from a conversion or exercise of the common stock warrants, an approval is required from the shareholders,
+Added: if the number of common shares to be issued to the accredited investor, when aggregated with all other shares of common stock beneficially
+Added: or deemed beneficially owned by the accredited investor would (i) result in the investor owning more than the Beneficial Ownership Limitation
+Added: (as defined below), as determined in accordance with Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or (ii) otherwise constitute a
+Added: Change of Control within the meaning of Nasdaq Rule 5635(b).
+Added: The “Beneficial Ownership Limitation” shall be 19.99% of the
+Added: number of shares of the common stock outstanding immediately prior to the proposed issuance of shares of common stock.
+Added: On April 9, 2024, we
+Added: entered into an Amendment and Waiver Agreement with the Investor relating to the Bridge Notes.
+Added: We agreed to pay $2.75
+Added: million in cash to the Investor in repayment of the principal of the Bridge Notes (exclusive of the $275,000 of original issue discount
+Added: on the Bridge Notes) shortly after the closing of one or more equity financings with total gross proceeds to us of not less than $6,000,000.
+Added: On April 26, 2024, we
+Added: repaid $2.75 million of principal on our Secured Bridge Notes.
+Added: Effective April 9, 2024,
+Added: the Investor converted $911,384, which is equal to the (i) unpaid accrued interest on the Bridge Notes plus (ii) the OID on the Bridge
+Added: Notes, into equity securities.
+Added: The Rollover Securities
+Added: consist of (i) 463,337 Prefunded Warrants with a per share exercise price of $0.001 per share and (ii) 463,337 Non-Prefunded Warrants
+Added: with an initial per share exercise price equal to $1.967.
+Added: The per share exercise price has been adjusted to $0.4930.
+Added: The number of Prefunded
+Added: Warrants was determined by dividing the Rollover Amount by $1.967.
+Added: The number of Non-Prefunded Warrants is equal to the number of Prefunded
+Added: Warrants (i.e.
+Added: 100% warrant coverage).
+Added: The Non-Prefunded Warrants have a price adjustment provision which will adjust the exercise price
+Added: downward in the event that we issue equity securities in the future at an effective per share price below the then current exercise price.
+Added: In order to assure compliance with applicable Nasdaq rules, the Non-Prefunded Warrants shall not be exercisable for six months following
+Added: the date of issue.
+Added: We issued to the Investor
+Added: 50,000 Fee Warrants with a five-year term as a loan extension fee.
+Added: The exercise price of these additional Fee Warrants was initially $1.967.
+Added: The Fee Warrants have a price adjustment provision which will adjust the exercise price downward in the event that we issue equity securities
+Added: in the future at an effective per share price below the then current exercise price.
+Added: The per share exercise price has been adjusted to
+Added: In order to assure compliance with applicable Nasdaq rules, the Fee Warrants shall not be exercisable for six months following
+Added: the date of issue.
+Added: We agreed to adjust the
+Added: exercise price of the Investor’s Existing Warrants from $15.25 (after adjustment for the recent reverse stock) to $1.967 per share,
+Added: and further to $0.4930.
+Added: The Investor will not
+Added: be able to receive shares upon exercise of any of the foregoing securities, unless prior stockholder approval is obtained, if (i) the
+Added: number of shares to be issued would exceed 20% of our outstanding number of shares at a discount to the applicable Nasdaq Minimum Price
+Added: or (ii) the number of shares to be issued would result in in a Change of Control within the meaning of Nasdaq Rule 5635(b).
Equity Line Sales
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the parties agreed to terminate the previous Common Stock Purchase Agreement with White Lion.
−Removed: From February 15, 2024 through March 19, 2024, the Company has sold
+Added: Through December 31, 2024, we have sold
4,815,263 shares to White Lion for total proceeds of $8,176,048.
−Removed: We currently have an effective registration statement that registers
−Removed: for resale by White Lion up to 765,263 shares of common stock that we may issue to White Lion under the Equity Line Purchase Agreement.
−Removed: After White Lion has acquired shares under the Equity Line Purchase Agreement, it may sell all, some or none of those shares.
−Removed: White Lion by us pursuant to the Equity Line Purchase Agreement may result in substantial dilution to the interests of other holders of
−Removed: our common stock.
+Added: This Common Stock Purchase Agreement expired on December 31, 2024.
+Added: 25, 2024, we entered into a new equity line Common Stock Purchase Agreement and a related registration rights agreement with White Lion.
+Added: Pursuant to the new Common Stock Purchase Agreement, we have the right, but not the obligation to require White Lion to purchase, from
+Added: time to time until December 31, 2025, up to $10,000,000 in aggregate gross purchase price of newly issued shares of our common stock,
+Added: subject to certain limitations and conditions set forth in the Common Stock Purchase Agreement.
+Added: have effective registration statements that registers for resale by White Lion up to 20,000,000 shares of common stock that we may issue
+Added: to White Lion under the New Equity Line Purchase Agreement.
+Added: As of March 5, no
+Added: shares have been issued under this agreement.
+Added: After White Lion has acquired shares under the Equity Line Purchase Agreement, it may sell
+Added: all, some or none of those shares.
+Added: Sales to White Lion by us pursuant to the Equity Line Purchase Agreement may result in substantial
+Added: dilution to the interests of other holders of our common stock.
Cash Flow Analysis
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Cash used in operating
+Added: activities for the year ended December 31, 2024 was $5,093,143, primarily resulting from our net loss of $8,722,039, offset by $3,440,638
+Added: of non-cash charges related to depreciation and amortization, share-based compensation expense, change in fair value of warrants, and
+Added: amortization of ROU asset.
+Added: The net loss was further impacted by a change in working capital of $188,258.
+Added: Cash used in operating activities
+Added: for both periods consisted of personnel-related expenditures, marketing and promotion costs, and public company administrative support
+Added: costs such as legal and other professional support services.
+Added: Cash used in operating
activities for the year ended December 31, 2023, was $4,504,207, primarily resulting from our net loss of $8,807,496 and change in working
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costs, and public company administrative support costs such as legal and other professional support services.
−Removed: Cash used in operating
−Removed: activities for the year ended December 31, 2022, was $4,752,750, primarily resulting from our net loss of $6,897,446, partially offset
−Removed: by non-cash charges of $2,131,362.
Investing Activities
Cash flows used in investing
−Removed: activities for the years ended December 31, 2023, and December 31, 2022, consisting primarily of capitalization of software development
−Removed: expenses of $1,029,157 and $1,927,298, respectively.
+Added: activities for the years ended December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023 consisted primarily of capitalization of software development expenses
+Added: of $992,147 and $1,029,157, respectively.
Financing Activities
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in financing activities for the year ended December 31, 2024 was $7,999,251 and related primarily to cash proceeds from the issuance of
+Added: preferred and common shares of $10,959,602 and repayment of notes payable of $2,750,000.
+Added: Cash flows generated
+Added: in financing activities for the year ended December 31, 2023 was $4,678,895 and related primarily to cash proceeds from the issuance of
common shares of $4,016,523 and proceeds from related party debt of $750,000.
−Removed: Cash flows provided by
−Removed: financing activities for the year ended December 31, 2022 of $2,000,000 was associated with the proceeds from the secured bridge note
−Removed: financing in November 2022.
Funding Requirements
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Our cash is comprised primarily of demand deposit accounts and money market funds.
−Removed: secured approximately $3.6 million in additional financing in February and March 2024.
−Removed: The Company had approximately $2.8 million in cash
−Removed: and approximately $4.0 million in debt due at March 31, 2024 and the Company is actively working to refinance the existing debt and raise
−Removed: additional capital, but cannot be certain of the outcome and timing.
−Removed: We will need additional funding to complete the development of our
−Removed: full product line and scale products with a demonstrated market fit.
−Removed: Management has plans to secure such additional funding.
−Removed: unable to raise capital when needed or on acceptable terms, we would be forced to delay, reduce, or eliminate our technology development
−Removed: and commercialization efforts.
+Added: $10.9 million of additional financing in 2024, which enabled us to pay down $2.75 million in connection with the Secured Bridge Notes
+Added: and will only be sufficient to fund our current operating plans into the second quarter of 2025.
+Added: We will need additional funding to complete
+Added: the development of our full product line and scale products with a demonstrated market fit.
+Added: Management has plans to secure such additional
+Added: If we are unable to raise capital when needed or on acceptable terms, we would be forced to delay, reduce, or eliminate our technology
+Added: development and commercialization efforts.
We expect our expenses to increase in connection
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The following table summarizes
−Removed: our contractual obligations not on our Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2023, and the effects that such obligations are expected to have
−Removed: on our liquidity and cash flows in future periods:
+Added: our contractual obligations included on our Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2024, and the effects that such obligations are expected
+Added: to have on our liquidity and cash flows in future periods:
Payments due by period
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Total operating lease commitments
−Removed: Represents minimum payments due for the lease of the month-to-month office space
−Removed: of $1,600 for three months and base rent under the operating lease commencing on April 1, 2024.
+Added: Represents minimum payments due for the lease of office space.
Off-balance sheet
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the periods presented, and we do not currently have, any off-balance sheet arrangements, as defined in the rules and regulations of the
−Removed: Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
+Added: Critical Accounting Estimates
Our financial statements
23 unchanged sentences
costs determined to be in excess of anticipated future net revenues are impaired and expensed during the period of such determination.
−Removed: Software development costs of $1,029,157 and $1,927,298 were capitalized in 2023 and 2022, respectively.
−Removed: Amortization expense of capitalized
−Removed: software development costs were $1,815,447 and $956,144 for the years ended December 31, 2023, and 2022, respectively and are included
−Removed: in depreciation and amortization expense.
Equity-based compensation
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grant occurred and prior fiscal years for a period equal to the expected life of the option.
−Removed: The risk-free interest rate was the rate
−Removed: available from the St.
−Removed: Louis Federal Reserve Bank with a term equal to the expected life of the option.
−Removed: The expected life of the option
−Removed: was estimated based on a mid-point method calculation.
−Removed: Prior to our IPO in February
−Removed: 2021, we were a private company with no active public market for our common equity.
−Removed: Therefore, we have periodically determined the overall
−Removed: value of our company and the estimated per share fair value of our common equity at their various dates using contemporaneous valuations
−Removed: performed with the assistance of a third-party specialist and in accordance with the guidance outlined in the American Institute of CPA’s
−Removed: Practice Aid.
+Added: risk-free interest rate was the rate available with a term equal to the expected life of the option.
+Added: The expected life of
+Added: the option was estimated based on a mid-point method calculation.
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