Item 1. Business
ITEM 1. BUSINESS
USE OF FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS IN THIS REPORT
This annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 (the “Annual Report”) contains forward-looking statements that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included in this Annual Report regarding our strategy, future operations, future financial position, future revenues, projected costs, prospects and plans and objectives of management are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, predictions regarding:
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our business plan;
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the commercial viability of our technology and products incorporating our technology;
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the effects of competitive factors on our technology and products incorporating our technology;
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expenses we will incur in operating our business;
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our liquidity and sufficiency of existing cash;
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the success of our financing plans; and
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the outcome of pending or threatened litigation.
You can identify these and other forward-looking statements by the use of words such as “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “expects,” “intends,” “may,” “plans,” “projects,” “will,” “would” and similar expressions, or the negative of such terms, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Forward-looking statements also include the assumptions underlying or relating to any of the foregoing statements.
We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. Although we believe that the expectations underlying our forward-looking statements are reasonable, these expectations may prove to be incorrect, and all of these statements are subject to risks and uncertainties. Therefore, you should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. We have included important risks and uncertainties in the cautionary statements included in this Annual Report; particularly, the section titled “Risk Factors” incorporated by reference herein. We believe these risks and uncertainties could cause actual results or events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements that we make. Should one or more of these risks and uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions, projections or expectations prove incorrect, actual results, performance or financial condition may vary materially and adversely from those anticipated, estimated or expected. Our forward-looking statements do not reflect the potential impact of future acquisitions, mergers, dispositions, joint ventures or investments that we may make. We do not assume any obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements contained herein, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. In the light of these risks and uncertainties, the forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this report may not occur, and actual results could differ materially from those anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statement made by us in this report is based only on information currently available to us and speaks only as of the date on which it is made.
When we refer in this report to “BioLargo,” the “Company,” “our Company,” “we,” “us” and “our,” we mean BioLargo, Inc., and our subsidiaries, including BioLargo Life Technologies, Inc., which holds our intellectual property; ONM Environmental, Inc., which manufactures, markets, sells and distributes our odor and volatile organic compound ("VOC") control products; BioLargo Energy Technologies, Inc. (“BETI”), formed to commercialize our proprietary battery technology; BioLargo Canada, Inc., our primary research and development team operating in Edmonton, Alberta Canada; BioLargo Engineering, Science & Technologies, LLC (“BLEST”), a professional engineering services division in Oak Ridge Tennessee; BioLargo Equipment Solutions & Technologies, Inc., which sells our water treatment products; BioLargo Development Corp., which employs and provides benefits to our employees; and Clyra Medical Technologies, Inc. (“Clyra Medical”), which commercializes our technologies in the medical and dental fields. All subsidiaries are wholly owned, except for BETI, BLEST and Clyra Medical.
Our Company
BioLargo, Inc. is a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Delaware. Our common stock is quoted on the OTC Markets highest level marketplace, the OTCQX, under the trading symbol “BLGO”.
Our corporate offices are located at 14921 Chestnut St., Westminster, California 92683. We have a research facility and offices at the University of Alberta in Canada, and our engineering team is located at 105 Fordham Road in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Our medical products company is located at 10770 N. 46th Street, Unit C-300, in Tampa, Florida. Our telephone number is (888) 400-2863. We operate through multiple wholly- and partially-owned subsidiaries.
Our principal corporate website is www.BioLargo.com. We also maintain a blog at www.BioLargo.com/blog and other websites including www.ONMEnvironmental.com, www.CupriDyne.com , www.ClyraMedical.com, www.BioLargoEnergy.com, www.BioLargoEquipment.com, www.BioLargoEngineering.com, www.bestPFAStreatment.com, and www.BioLargoWater.com. The information on our websites and blog are not, and shall not be deemed to be, a part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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Our Business - Innovator and Solution Provider
BioLargo is in the business of creating new cleantech technologies to solve tough, globally relevant problems. We invent, develop, then commercialize technologies that tackle difficult challenges in air quality, water, environmental engineering, battery energy storage, and advanced antimicrobial medical device platforms. Our model is to invent new technologies that solve specific problems, develop them and prove they work, and then commercialize them with purpose-suited subsidiaries, identify and secure the right partnerships to increase their commercial reach, or potentially sell the intellectual property.
Why do we do this work? Every member of our team – including PhD scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs – has a passion for seeking new, never-before-seen innovations that can make life better around the world. We care about safeguarding the environment and human health for future generations. We care about making technologies that are affordable and flexible enough to be accessed around the world. And we care about being the best at what we do – creating best-in-class technologies to solve meaningful cleantech challenges.
Some of our areas of focus include environmental problems like PFAS contamination, water pollution by pharmaceuticals and micropollutants, air pollution by VOCs, hard-to-treat odors from landfills and sewage plants, infection and wound healing and the creation of energy storage systems that are more affordable, efficient, safer and environmentally friendly.
Below you’ll read about the cleantech ventures and projects we are focused on commercialization today. Behind those, however, is a pipeline of other cleantech innovations in various stages of development associated with our expansive array of issued and pending patents, and that have been funded in part by over 90 government grants.
We operate our business in distinct business segments:
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Odor and VOC control products, including consumer pet and household products and CupriDyne Clean Industrial Odor Eliminator, sold by our wholly-owned subsidiary ONM Environmental, Inc.;
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Water treatment equipment and solutions, including our PFAS remediation system the Aqueous Electrostatic Concentrator (AEC), our water reuse and recycling technology co-developed with Garratt-Callahan called AROS, and sold by our wholly-owned subsidiary BioLargo Equipment Solutions & Technologies, Inc.;
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Battery energy storage systems designed for grid-scale energy storage and other industrial uses under the brand name Cellinity TM being developed by our partially owned (95%) subsidiary BioLargo Energy Technologies, Inc.;
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Medical products based on our technologies sold by our partially owned (48%) subsidiary Clyra Medical Technologies, Inc.;
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Our professional engineering services division, which, in addition to serving outside clients on a fee for service basis, supports our internal business units, through our partially owned (70%) subsidiary BioLargo Engineering, Science & Technologies, LLC ("BLEST");
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Our research and support personnel, through our wholly-owned subsidiary BioLargo Canada, Inc., located on campus at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Odor Control (Consumer and Industrial)
ONM Environmental, Inc. ("ONM") is BioLargo’s wholly-owned subsidiary that delivers robust and comprehensive products and services to control and mitigate odor and VOCs for both consumer and industrial applications. Its flagship product – CupriDyne® Clean – is applied to odor-emitting masses such as landfills and composting facilities by misting systems, sprayers, water trucks and similar water delivery systems designed, manufactured and installed by ONM. It is also sold to third parties under private label brands.
Consumer Private-Label Products
We sell odor-control products based on our technologies to third parties who market and sell the products under their own brand names. The most successful thus far has been pet odor control products sold under the brand name "Pooph" by Pooph Inc. In addition to purchasing product from us at an agreed-upon manufacturing margin, Pooph Inc. agreed to pay us a six percent royalty on their sales in exchange for exclusive rights to our technology for pet odors, and agreed that if they sold their brand to a third party, we would receive 20% of the exit value. Pooph defaulted on their payments, we revoked their license to sell pet products with our technology, and sued Pooph for patent infringement and other claims in order to protect our intellectual property. (See subheading " Impairment/ Credit Loss Expense, Pooph Litigation " in Results of Operations, below.)
We are focused on redeploying its technology with new partners that share our commitment to quality, transparency, and integrity, and expand the reach of our proven odor-control technology into new markets, providing consumers with safe, effective, and environmentally friendly products. We do not expect the Pooph litigation to materially affect our other business units or growth strategy. The success of the pet-odor consumer products is an example of our goal to develop distribution channels that do not rely on our in-house sales and distribution infrastructure. While Pooph is by far the company’s most successful private label product thus far, we sell other private label odor-control products and continue to pursue related business opportunities as a means of tapping into new markets.
Industrial Odor and VOC Solutions
We believe CupriDyne® Clean is the number-one performing industrial odor-control product in the market, and that it offers substantial savings to our customers compared with competing products. We have been and expect to continue selling product to municipalities and some of the largest solid waste handling companies in the country to help control odors emitted from waste handling and sanitation sites and landfills. In addition to selling products, ONM Environmental offers a menu of services to landfills, transfer stations, wastewater treatment facilities as well as facilities in non-waste related industries. These services include engineering design, construction, installation, ongoing maintenance and on-site support services to assist our clients in the implementation and continued use of the various systems that deliver our liquid products in the field (such as misting systems). A significant portion of industrial odor control product and service revenue comes from ongoing contracts with cities and counties in Southern California, where ONM has installed comprehensive odor control systems to mitigate nuisance odors emitted from municipal waste handling and sanitation sites.
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BioLargo Equipment Solutions & Technologies – Innovative Water Treatment Solutions
Over the years, we have developed multiple innovative technologies and equipment platforms that focus on challenging issues in the water treatment industry, including the AEC (developed to remove per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, aka "PFAS"), and the AROS water reuse technology (for industrial cooling tower water recycling such as in data centers, co-developed with Garratt-Callahan). We sell these products through our wholly-owned subsidiary BioLargo Equipment Solutions & Technologies, Inc. (“BEST”), which manages the sales and distribution of our water treatment products and related services.
BLEST's board of directors includes Jeffrey Kightlinger, former CEO of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Sally Gutierrez, retired career senior executive from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Larry Dick, former Vice Chairman of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and board member of the Municipal Water District of Orange County. Each brings their significant and distinctive experience from decades in the water industry to BEST’s board to help the company create the necessary regulatory and industry connections that will be critical for its efforts to secure larger and more high-profile projects for its PFAS treatment and other water treatment technologies. These board members have been instrumental in efforts to raise awareness of our innovative treatment solutions within the water industry and EPA.
Securing sales in the water and wastewater industry is a very technically intensive process and can be long and arduous. The entirety of the sales cycle can be lengthy, in some cases even taking many months or, in the case of very large projects, multiple years. A typical sales timeline for a municipal drinking water or wastewater customer, from introduction to signing the contract for a full-scale install, usually requires feasibility studies, on-site pilot projects, budget approvals, State regulatory approvals, and more. Industrial clients may have a shorter sales cycles but are under pressure to ensure that the Return on Investment (ROI) fits into company standards, so their reviews can also be lengthy. For any water treatment project, the process is also very engineering-intensive, and therefore the staff required to secure contracts for water treatment projects need to be highly technical engineers. In our company, BLEST’s engineers fill this role.
AEC, a solution for the PFAS “fo rever- chemicals ” crisis
One of the most significant and timely innovations in our portfolio is our per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) water remediation system the Aqueous Electrostatic Concentrator (AEC), a novel water treatment system that removes PFAS from water while generating only a fraction of the PFAS-laden waste of the most common currently used solutions (carbon filtration, ion exchange, and reverse osmosis), and oftentimes at a lower cost. PFAS are a group of man-made chemicals used for decades in the manufacture of both household and industrial goods, which have been detected in drinking water around the world. PFAS are a concern because they do not break down in the environment, can move through soil and contaminate drinking water sources, and build up (bioaccumulate) in fish, wildlife and humans. PFAS chemicals have been linked to cancer, immune disorders, liver dysfunction, and many other human health problems. Detection of unsafe levels of PFAS around the world has given rise to a number of market opportunities for treatment and remediation technologies, including in drinking water, industrial wastewater, municipal wastewater, solid waste, landfill leachate, organic foods and more.
We have successfully validated the AEC as an effective system to selectively extract and collect PFAS chemicals from contaminated water, including performance testing that shows “non-detect” levels of removal, which meet and exceed EPA standards. We have demonstrated more than 10,000 hours of continuous operation showing no materially significant degradation of the AEC system’s components or performance over time and believe the costs to operate our system will be far less than that of the two primary incumbent technologies.
As a modular system, we believe the AEC is scalable to small commercial units used in smaller remediation projects for groundwater, wastewater, or landfill leachate, as well as large commercial installations of drinking water treatment facilities, and we believe that our engineering team has the experience to deliver systems to meet the needs of any sized commercial installation. In order to provide a full turn-key solution for our customers, we have developed an expanded offering whereby we can bundle a service package with each customer project that includes a membrane exchange program, the collection of PFAS, and transport and destruction of the PFAS using a novel “electrooxidation” process which our studies have shown is capable of reaching non-detect levels of PFAS after treating AEC-concentrated PFAS containing water, wastewater, or even landfill leachate (the contaminant-laden water that drains from landfills).
Our AEC unit has been installed and is up and running in Lake Stockholm, New Jersey, removing PFAS from drinking water for local residents. The AEC's performance is undergoing regular testing by both the U.S. EPA and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. This project may represent a key milestone for the commercialization of the AEC, as we believe industry validation of the technology in a first municipal drinking water treatment project will play an important role in showcasing the AEC’s distinct advantages over incumbent technologies like carbon filtration and ion exchange. As we progress through the commercial rollout of our AEC technology, we continue to invest in innovation aimed at enhancing its commercial viability. These efforts are focused on improving system performance, reducing lifecycle costs, and strengthening the AEC’s competitive economic position within the PFAS treatment market. We remain committed to delivering scalable, cost-effective solutions that align with evolving regulatory requirements and market demand.
We believe we are well-positioned in the PFAS-removal market for multiple reasons. We have successfully completed over a dozen pilot studies with prospective customers’ PFAS contaminated water from a variety of source waters including groundwater, wastewater and leachate; we have successfully maintained operation of our AEC PFAS treatment system for over 10,000 hours continuously, thus demonstrating its resilience to long-term use; we have submitted bids and proposals and have received indications of interest from a wide range of customer types; we have added several high-profile experts from the industry to our team who are assisting in opening doors to potential clients and collaborators; we have entered into discussions about partnership and opportunities for collaboration with industry-leading firms who have a gap in their PFAS treatment technology portfolio. While these opportunities do not convert into commercial sales overnight, but they represent strong avenues for accelerating adoption of our PFAS treatment solution.
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AROS Minimal Liquid Discharge Water Treatment
In partnership with Garratt-Callahan, one of the country’s oldest and largest privately held water treatment companies, our engineers helped develop a “minimal liquid discharge” wastewater treatment system called the Aqueous Reuse Optimization System (AROS) that is designed to minimize industrial wastewater discharges and create water for reuse in other areas of an industrial plant. The system is particularly well-suited for cooling towers at data centers and other high-water-use facilities. Garratt-Callahan, who invented and patented the technology, is actively marketing the AROS system to its existing customer base and to new prospective customers. BLEST will serve as the manufacturing partner and Garratt-Callahan will serve as the selling distributor to leverage their national sales force and over one hundred years of providing services and products to customers.
Advanced Oxidation System (AOS)
The Advanced Oxidation water treatment system (AOS) is our patented water treatment device that generates highly oxidative and energetic species of iodine and other molecules which allow it to eliminate pathogenic organisms and organic contaminants rapidly and effectively as water passes through the device. The key value proposition of the AOS is its ability to reduce or eliminate a wide variety of waterborne contaminants with high performance, including the normally hard-to-treat class of recalcitrant water contaminants called “micropollutants”, while using very little electricity and input chemicals. The AOS has been proven capable of removing hard-to-treat organic micropollutants such as pharmaceuticals from water more quickly and energy-efficiently than other technologies. While the AOS has demonstrated exceptional performance in both laboratory and pilot-scale testing, current U.S. regulatory frameworks have not yet matured to support broad adoption of advanced oxidation technologies for micropollutant removal. Additionally, the domestic market remains dominated by low-cost chemical disinfection solutions. In light of these market conditions, we have elected to pause daily development activities on the AOS in the near term. However, we continue to monitor evolving regulatory trends in the U.S. and are exploring the possibility of international commercialization opportunities, particularly in Europe where regulatory mandates for micropollutant removal are more advanced. Our business development efforts remain focused on strategic partnerships in the European market and on domestic industrial and pharmaceutical wastewater applications where micropollutants are a significant driver of surcharge fee.
BioLargo Energy Technologies, Inc.
Our subsidiary BioLargo Energy Technologies, Inc. (“BETI”) was founded to commercialize a novel battery technology with the potential to help facilitate the ongoing shift toward renewable energy production by providing a safer, longer lasting, more eco-friendly, and more affordable alternative to lithium-ion batteries. Designed for long duration energy storage, also known as "battery energy storage solutions" (BESS), our battery, called Cellinity™, uses a novel “liquid sodium” chemistry that uses common domestically sourced materials, and which has significant advantages over other battery chemistries for use in stationary, long-duration energy storage.
BETI operates out of a pilot-scale battery production facility in our Oak Ridge Tennessee engineering headquarters, and is currently manufacturing and testing prototype battery cells. A third party has confirmed many of the technology's exceptional performance claims that we believe will make it an attractive battery technology for long duration energy storage and other industrial uses such as artificial intelligence data centers, electric vehicle charging stations, and renewal energy, including the stability of the chemistry of the battery cell and the reliability of the component construction as a sealed, non-venting cell design with no self-discharging, and the battery's ability to quickly charge and discharge at a high voltage. It has also been proven that the battery can withstand catastrophic physical insults without causing fire or explosion, one of the battery’s key features. With this data confirmed by a third party, our engineers have begun work advancing Cellinity's development, including the design of a larger sized battery cell that would then be incorporated into battery packs, modules and batteries meant for industrial facilities. Simultaneously, our engineers are working to develop manufacturing processes that would allow scale production and a supply chain necessary to ensure costs of goods in line with market demand and conditions.
We believe our Cellinity batteries will have features that far surpass comparable lithium-ion batteries, the dominant incumbent technology in the market, including:
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Increased safety, no runaway fire risks, and a more sustainable design – with no rare-earth elements – that is capable of being manufactured completely from a domestic supply chain;
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Ability to charge and discharge completely, with no degradation of performance, ensuring virtually unlimited charge/discharge cycles, and without self-discharge and no out-gassing; and
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Increased energy efficiency and energy density in comparison to lithium-ion batteries, and a longer useful life expectancy of at least 10 years and expected to be up to 20 years.
We are exploring multiple opportunities to commercialize our Cellinity batteries through joint ventures with third parties. The third parties would finance the construction of independent battery manufacturing facilities designed and built under the direction of our engineers, and the joint venture would market, manufacture and distribute batteries. BioLargo would (i) receive a minority equity position in each joint venture, (ii) separately manufacture and sell at a profit to the joint venture certain proprietary battery components, and (iii) receive a royalty on the revenues of the joint venture.
Given the global growing demand for better batteries, and, while we are witnessing a number of current examples in which battery manufacturers have secured forward-contracts to supply batteries to its customers with backlogs of orders that amount to multiple years of production capacity, we believe our offer to partner with customers to secure needed inventory provides for a clear potential pathway to access capital, and more readily scale up production to meet demand around the world. At this point, we do not intend to finance and build our own manufacturing facilities, nor would we develop in-house sales channels, although that possibility remains an option to explore if needed
Clyra Medical Technologies, Inc.
Our partially owned subsidiary Clyra Medical Technologies, Inc. is a healthcare company that is developing and commercializing products based on our technologies designed to safely treat wound and skin infections and promote wound healing, while reducing the need for antibiotics. Clyra's first products are based on its patented Clyrasept™ technology, which utilizes a Copper-Iodine Complex Solution (CICS) and received premarket clearance from the FDA under Section 510(k). Its first product is ViaCLYR™, a pH-balanced wound management solution formulated from copper sulfate and potassium iodide in a balanced sodium chloride solution, indicated for wound management, cleansing, irrigation, moisturization, and debridement of acute and chronic wounds and burns, sold through wholesale distributors and sales agents. Clyra received a first purchase order for the ViaCLYR™ product from a distributor in February 2026. Clyra is working closely with Keystone Industries, a medical device and cosmetics manufacturer founded over 50 years ago, to ready at-scale manufacturing of its second wound irrigation solution product. Keystone has invested over $3 million in equipment and infrastructure in its manufacturing facilities, and Clyra has invested over $2 million in molds, equipment and resources. Clyra’s management team includes Chief Medical Officer Dr. Steven J. Kavros, a twenty-year veteran of the Mayo Clinic in roles such as Director at the Rochester Mayo Clinic’s Gonda Vascular Wound Healing Center, Nick Valeriani, who had a 34-year career with Johnson and Johnson where he held numerous leadership positions in engineering, manufacturing, sales and marketing, and Linda Park of Edwards Lifesciences, where she serves as Corporate Secretary, Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel, and as a board member of the Edwards Lifesciences Foundation.
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Full Service Environmental Engineering
BioLargo Engineering, Science & Technologies, LLC (“BLEST”) offers full service environmental engineering to third parties and provides engineering support services to our internal teams to accelerate the commercialization of our technologies.
BLEST focuses its efforts in these three areas:
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providing engineering services to third-party clients as well as affiliated BioLargo entities;
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supporting internal product development; and
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advancing their own technical innovations such as the AEC PFAS treatment technology.
BLEST operates out of our engineering facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (a suburb of Knoxville), and employs a group of scientists and engineers, many of whom are owners of the entity (BioLargo owns 70% as of December 31, 2025). The team is led by Randall Moore, who served as Manager of Operations for Consulting and Engineering for the Knoxville office of CB&I Environmental & Infrastructure and was formerly a leader at The Shaw Group, Inc., a Fortune 500 global engineering firm. Many of the other team members are also former employees of CB&I and Shaw, with the exception of more recent staff hires. The team is highly experienced across multiple industries and we believe are considered experts in their respective fields, including: chemical engineering, wastewater treatment (including design, operations, data gathering and data evaluation), process safety, energy efficiency, air pollution, design and control, technology evaluation, technology integration, air quality management & testing, engineering management, permitting, industrial hygiene, applied research and development, air testing, environmental permitting, HAZOP review, chemical processing, thermal design, computational fluid dynamics, mechanical engineering, mechanical design, NEPDES permitting, RCRA/TSCA compliance and permitting, project management, storm water design & permitting, computer assisted design (CAD), bench chemistry, continuous emission monitoring system operator, data handling and evaluation and decommissioning and decontamination of radiological and chemical contaminated facilities. The team has decades of high-level experience in the energy industry. The engineering team has also developed an extended network of trusted engineering subcontractors that assist in serving specific client projects as needed.
BLEST engineers generate revenue through services to third party clients, as well as for internal BioLargo projects such as the AEC and battery (revenues from internal projects are eliminated in the consolidation of our financial statements and are designed “intersegment revenue”). Third party contracts include ongoing work at U.S. Air Force bases for air quality control which generate ongoing contract-based revenue of approximately $100,000 per month. Efforts to expand this work as well as with other clients are consistently ongoing.
The staff time devoted to supporting the AEC (PFAS) and battery related work is demanding, and, BLEST needs to hire more qualified staff to meet and expanding demand for our growing list of customers and/or expected customers. When we combine the demands of current revenue generating projects and expected growth, we are presented with an obvious challenge to manage quality, timely performance as well as access to qualified staff. We are working carefully to find balance to help ensure we meet the demands of both in a practical customer centric and capital conserving way. It may be for example, when we secure larger and larger contracts for PFAS or Garrett Callan related work, we will need to depend heavily on our contact manufactures to meet the customer demands in the near term as we scale up our infrastructure and work force capabilities.
Share Purchase Agreement with Lincoln Park
On December 13, 2022 we entered into a purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC (“Lincoln Park”) pursuant to which Lincoln Park committed to purchase up to $10 million of our common stock. The Purchase Agreement expired February 1, 2026. In the aggregate, we sold 17,368,716 shares of Common Stock to Lincoln Park for $3,216,147. During the year ended December 31, 2025, we sold 11,745,123 shares of common stock to Lincoln Park and received $2,122,000 in gross proceeds. During the year ended December 31, 2024, we sold 766,175 shares of common stock to Lincoln Park and received $260,000 in gross proceeds. Our Consolidated Statement of Stockholder Equity at December 31, 2025, includes a $250,000 fee due pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. This amount has been partially paid and as of March 2, 2026, $97,000 is outstanding. We do not intend to enter into a new purchase agreement with Lincoln Park at this time.
Intellectual Property
We have 34 patents issued, including 26 in the United States, and multiple applications pending, and our patents have an average remaining duration of seven years. We believe these patents provide a foundation from which to continue building our patent portfolio, and we believe that our technology is sufficiently useful and novel that we have a reasonable basis upon which to rely on our patent protections. We also rely on trade secrets and technical know-how to establish and maintain additional protection of our intellectual property. As our capital resources permit, we expect to expand our patent protection as we continue to refine our inventions as well as make new discoveries. We regard our intellectual property as critical to our ultimate success. Our goal is to obtain, maintain and enforce patent protection for our products and technologies in geographic areas of commercial interest and to protect our trade secrets and proprietary information through laws and contractual arrangements.
We incurred $2,593,000 and $2,882,000 in expense related to our research and development activities in the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.
Competition
Our operational subsidiaries operate in diverse markets and each competes against large, well established companies. For industrial odor control, we compete against national companies such as Weaver Consulting Group, Atmos Technologies, Chemstation and OMI Industries. Our Cellinity battery energy storage systems will compete against lithium-ion batteries made by Tesla, Chinese companies CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.), BYD (Build Your Dreams) and MANLY, and other global leaders such as Panasonic and LG. Our AEC system competes against granular activated carbon, ion-exchange and reverse osmosis systems made by companies such as Veolia, AECOM, Xylem and Pentair. We believe we our products each offer advantages not available to competing products.
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Executive Officers
As of December 31, 2025, and as the date of this report, our executive officers were:
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Dennis P. Calvert: Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
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Charles K. Dargan II: Chief Financial Officer
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Joseph L. Provenzano: Corporate Secretary and Sr. Vice President of Operations
Our operational subsidiaries are led by:
Subsidiary
President
ONM Environmental, Inc.
Joseph L. Provenzano
BioLargo Engineering, Science & Technologies, LLC ("BLEST")
Randall Moore
BioLargo Canada, Inc.
Richard Smith
Clyra Medical Technologies, Inc.
Steven V. Harrison
BioLargo Energy Technologies, Inc. ("BETI")
Dennis P. Calvert
BioLargo Equipment Solutions & Technologies, Inc. ("BEST")
Tonya Chandler
Employees
As of March 2, 2026, we had 46 employees, of which 44 were full-time. Our employees including professional engineers, masters of engineering, and PhDs, as well as sales, support and administrative personnel. We also utilize consultants and independent contractors on an as-needed basis who provide certain specified services, such as professional engineers used from time to time by our engineering group in Tennessee.
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