Banzai International, Inc. 10-K

10-K UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 10-K (Mark One) ☒ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended December 31 , 2025 OR ☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM TO Commission File Number 001-39826 Banzai International, Inc. (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its Charter) Delaware 85-3118980 (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) 435 Ericksen Ave , Suite 250 Bainbridge Island , Washington 98110 (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code) Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: ( 206 ) 414-1777 Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: Title of each class Trading Symbol(s) Name of each exchange on which registered Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share BNZI The Nasdaq Capital Market Redeemable Warrants, each whole warrant exercisable for one share of Class A common stock at an exercise price of $575.00 BNZIW The Nasdaq Capital Market Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None Indicate by check mark if the Registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ☐ No ☒ Indicate by check mark if the Registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Act. 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Yes ☐ No ☒ The aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the registrant, based on the closing price of the shares of common stock on the last business day of the registrant's most recently completed second fiscal quarter, was approximately $ 12,147,061 as of June 30, 2025 , based on the last sales price reported for such date on The Nasdaq Stock Exchange LLC. The number of shares outstanding of each of the registrant's classes of common stock, as of March 27, 2026: Class A Common Stock - 16,947,708 shares Class B Common Stock - 607,998 shares Documents Incorporated by Reference: None. Table of Contents Page PART I Item 1. Business 2 Item 1A. Risk Factors 8 Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments 35 Item 1C. Cybersecurity 35 Item 2. Properties 36 Item 3. Legal Proceedings 36 Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures 36 PART II Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities 37 Item 6. [Reserved] 39 Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations 40 Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk 51 Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data 52 Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure 52 Item 9A. Controls and Procedures 52 Item 9B. Other Information 54 Item 9C. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections 54 PART III Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance 55 Item 11. Executive Compensation 60 Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters 67 Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence 68 Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services 69 PART IV Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules 71 Item 16. Form 10-K Summary 71 Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements This Annual Report on Form 10-K (this “Report”) contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements often use words such as “believe,” “may,” “will,” “estimate,” “target,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “expect,” “should,” “would,” “propose,” “plan,” “project,” “forecast,” “predict,” “potential,” “seek,” “future,” “outlook,” and similar variations and expressions. Forward-looking statements are those that do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. Examples of forward-looking statements may include, among others, statements regarding the Company’s: ▪ future financial, business and operating performance and goals; ▪ annualized recurring revenue and customer retention; ▪ ongoing, future or ability to maintain or improve its financial position, cash flows, and liquidity and its expected financial needs; ▪ potential financing and ability to obtain financing; ▪ acquisition strategy and proposed acquisitions and, if completed, their potential success and financial contributions; ▪ strategy and strategic goals, including being able to capitalize on opportunities; ▪ expectations relating to the Company’s industry, outlook and market trends; ▪ total addressable market and serviceable addressable market and related projections; ▪ plans, strategies and expectations for retaining existing or acquiring new customers, increasing revenue and executing growth initiatives; and ▪ product areas of focus and additional products that may be sold in the future. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of our control. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, and our actual results of operations, financial condition and liquidity and development of the industry in which the Company operates may differ materially from those made in or suggested by the forward-looking statements. Therefore, investors should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially include changes in the markets in which the Company operates, customer demand, the financial markets, economic, business and regulatory and other factors, such as the Company’s ability to execute on its strategy. More detailed information about risk factors can be found in this Report and the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q under the heading “Risk Factors,” and in other reports filed by the Company, including reports on Form 8-K. The Company does not undertake any duty to update forward-looking statements after the date they are made. 1 PART I Unless the context requires otherwise, references in this Report to “Banzai,” “Company,” “we,” “us” and “our” and similar designations refer to Banzai International, Inc. and its subsidiaries. Item 1. Business. Overview Banzai International, Inc. is a Software as a Service (“SaaS”) company operating in the marketing technology (“MarTech”) industry. We provide our customers with tools to help them market and sell with greater efficiency and impact. To date, Banzai has supported over 150,000 global customers, including entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 companies. Our customers include Amazon, Dell, Salesforce, Aflac, Thermo Fisher Scientific, RBC Wealth Management, Fitch Group, and many other globally recognized brands. Banzai grows in three ways: acquiring new customers through our sales and marketing efforts, expanding our platform through the development and acquisition of MarTech products, and cross-selling additional solutions to our existing customers. When evaluating acquisitions, we look for profitable businesses with customer profiles that align with our values and growth strategy. When considering additional products to purchase and offer, we look at customer satisfaction levels because we believe that is a good indicator of a product’s trajectory. Our vision is to build a suite of mission-critical solutions that address a broad spectrum of customer needs. By integrating these tools, we aim to create efficiencies and unlock shared data and assets that power more advanced AI capabilities. In December 2024 we acquired ClearDoc, Inc. (d/b/a OpenReel "OpenReel"), in January 2025 we acquired Vidello Limited ("Vidello"), and in November 2025 we acquired the assets of Superblocks, in order to expand our product offerings and customer base. Our platform currently includes several products, ranging across demand generation, webinar hosting, video creation and email newsletters. We sell most of our products using a recurring subscription license model typical in SaaS businesses, with customer contracts that vary in term length from single months to multiple years. As of December 31, 2025, our customer base included customers operating in 90 countries, across numerous different industries, including healthcare, financial services, e-commerce, technology, media and others. No single customer represents more than 10% of our revenue. Since 2021, we have focused on increasing mid-market and enterprise customers for Demio. We were originally known as 7GC & Co. Holdings Inc ("7GC"). On December 14, 2023, Banzai International, Inc. became a publicly traded company as a result of completing the business combination, recapitalization and other transactions with Banzai Operating Co LLC (f/k/a Banzai International, Inc.) (“Legacy Banzai”), and 7GC (collectively, the “Business Combination”). Legacy Banzai operates under the name “Banzai Operating Co Inc.” (the “Operating Company”) and is one of our three wholly owned subsidiaries. Legacy Banzai was incorporated in Delaware in September 2015. Transaction Announcement On March 23, 2026, the Company announced that it reached an agreement on terms to acquire assets of ConnectAndSell, Inc. (“ConnectandSell”), an AI-powered sales enablement platform serving B2B organizations across financial services, healthcare, technology, and other industries. The acquisition is expected to increase Banzai’s annual revenue by approximately $15 million. The two companies have executed a non-binding letter of intent, and the final transaction is expected to close in early second quarter 2026, subject to execution of a definitive agreement and closing conditions. Industry Background and Trends The MarTech industry has undergone rapid growth and transformation in recent years. Per the Winterberry Report (as defined below), rising demand for MarTech solutions is linked to companies prioritizing efficient growth, —a trend we expect to accelerate amid increasing global competition and pressure to demonstrate profitability. The MarTech landscape is vast and rapidly evolving, with multiple vendors offering solutions across a broad spectrum of needs. According to the 2024 Marketing Technology Landscape report by ChiefMartec, the number of MarTech companies has grown by 27.8% year over year, reaching over 14,000 providers. This fragmented ecosystem 2 presents a significant opportunity for acquisitions and platform expansion. This competitive landscape is a reason why Banzai focuses on differentiating itself through exceptional products and customer service. Market Size We compete within the business-to-business (“B2B”) MarTech value chain, which encompasses functions including creating and distributing content, acquiring and nurturing leads, executing and optimizing campaigns, and managing and measuring performance. In 2023, we engaged Verista Partners Inc., also known as Winterberry Group (“Winterberry”), to conduct a comprehensive analysis of our market opportunity within the MarTech sector. On April 14, 2023, Winterberry delivered a Strategic Due Diligence Assessment Report (the “Winterberry Report”) outlining our Total Addressable Market ("TAM") and Serviceable Addressable Market ("SAM"). The TAM, defined as U.S. business-to-business ("B2B") spending across categories such as demand generation, marketing automation, digital events platforms, account-based marketing, customer resource management, engagement, content management systems, customer data platforms, measurement and attribution, and predictive and prescriptive analytics, is projected to reach $39.42 billion by 2026, reflecting a compound annual growth rate ("CAGR") of 11.80% from 2020 to 2026. The SAM, which includes U.S. B2B spending specifically on measurement and attribution, demand generation, and digital events platforms, is expected to reach $8.37 billion by 2026, representing a CAGR of 16.07% over the same period. To calculate our estimated SAM and TAM, Winterberry started with the B2B MarTech stack from acquiring and nurturing leads to executing and optimizing campaigns to managing and measuring content, data and performance. Within that value chain, Winterberry identified which components were core to the Banzai business as of the date of the Winterberry Report (i.e., measurement and attribution, demand generation, and digital events platforms) and which would be natural adjacencies and future offerings (i.e., demand generation, marketing automation, digital events platforms, account-based marketing, customer relationship management, engagement, content management systems, customer data platforms, measurement and attribution, and predictive and prescriptive analytics). The identified core components make up our SAM, and both core components and adjacent and future offerings are included in our TAM. Winterberry then sized each component individually utilizing a range of sources estimating market spending and forecasted growth rates, including Winterberry proprietary models, as well as various other market research company products and forecasts. Depending on the estimate and whether it was global or included in B2B use cases, Winterberry utilized assumptions that 25% of spend is B2B and 33% of global spend is U.S.-specific. The models provided by Winterberry were based on economic forecasts from government and private sector analysts as well as third-party media forecasts primarily provided by marketing agencies, governing bodies and associations, trade publications, and research analysts, all of which are subject to change. There are uncertainties inherent in attempting to make such projections and forecasts, and we encourage our stockholders and investors to perform their own investigation and carefully consider such uncertainties. Products and Services As of December 31, 2025, our platform offers several SaaS products including: OpenReel, CreateStudio, Vidello, Demio, Boost, Reach and Curate. OpenReel OpenReel is an AI-powered video creation platform that enables users to remotely record, edit, host, and share high-quality videos from any location. Its remote capture feature allows users to film professional-grade videos using devices like smartphones or webcams, without needing to be there in person. The platform offers AI-driven editing tools for seamless content refinement and customization, along with secure cloud storage for easy access and sharing. OpenReel's comprehensive solution streamlines the video production process, making it efficient and cost-effective for businesses and individuals. CreateStudio CreateStudio is a comprehensive video animation and editing software designed for both beginners and experienced creators. It offers an intuitive drag-and-drop interface that allows users to produce a variety of content, including 3D character animations, explainer videos, social media ads, and doodle sketches. The platform provides a rich library of customizable templates, animated characters, royalty-free assets, and special effects, enabling the creation of 3 professional-quality videos without the need for advanced technical skills. Notable features include 3D modeling, AI-powered text-to-speech, green screen editing, and dynamic camera movements. CreateStudio is compatible with both Mac and Windows operating systems. Vidello Vidello is a comprehensive video hosting and marketing platform designed to help businesses manage, customize, and optimize their video content. It offers a customizable, fast-loading video player, along with features like A/B split testing, dynamic variables, and automatic video SEO to enhance user engagement and conversion rates. Vidello also provides tools such as lower third animations, clickable links, buy buttons, email opt-in forms, and interactive video polls, enabling users to generate leads and drive sales directly within their videos. The platform supports seamless integration with various email autoresponders and is compatible with multiple website builders and membership platforms. Demio Demio is a browser-based webinar platform designed to help businesses create, host, and manage both live and automated webinars for thousands of attendees with ease. Its intuitive interface simplifies webinar setup, allowing users to customize registration pages, apply branding, and automate email reminders. Demio offers robust engagement tools—including real-time chat, polls, Q&A sessions, screen sharing, and multimedia presentations—enabling a highly interactive and professional experience. Businesses can host live sessions or schedule automated webinars to reach audiences at scale. A standout feature of this product is the Demio AI Moderator, which manages audience engagement in real time, answers key questions and ensures a smoother experience for attendees. In addition to its core webinar functionality, Demio supports lead generation and marketing integration. It connects with CRM and marketing automation platforms, helping users streamline campaign workflows and improve follow-up. Customizable registration forms, in-webinar CTAs, and detailed analytics allow users to track attendee behavior, measure performance, and optimize webinar strategies. With the addition of AI-powered moderation and automation tools, Demio empowers businesses to deliver engaging, scalable webinars that drive lead capture, audience engagement, and sales conversion. Boost Boost is an add-on product integrated with Demio that helps customers increase webinar attendance by turning existing registrants into advocates. It enables attendees to share event registration links across platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and email, with built-in incentives to encourage referrals. Boost automates email notifications, provides customizable share pages, tracks link performance, and supports reward-based campaigns—all designed to simplify social sharing and drive additional signups. Its seamless integration with Demio ensures a smooth experience, helping customers amplify reach and grow webinar participation through word-of-mouth promotion. Reach Reach is a targeted outreach tool that helps customers boost their demand generation campaigns by connecting directly with their ideal audience. Reach generates tailored contact lists based on criteria like region, job title, company size, and revenue. It provides personalized outreach, confirmations and reminders to increase results across fourteen different campaign types including event attendance, newsletter subscriptions and opt-ins. Reach also supports privacy compliance with customizable opt-in language and allows users to include or exclude specific accounts for account-based marketing (ABM) strategies. With built-in list scrubbing to ensure high email deliverability, Reach enables customers to engage high-value leads they may not otherwise reach. Curate Curate by Banzai is an AI-driven newsletter platform designed to help brands grow their audience through fully automated targeted newsletters. By selecting relevant news feeds and topics, Curate automatically generates and sends engaging, branded newsletters on a daily or weekly basis, saving users significant time on content creation. The platform ensures seamless integration of a brand's voice, colors, and logo, delivering a cohesive look that resonates with the target audience. Additionally, Curate actively promotes newsletters to the ideal audience, facilitating consistent subscriber growth. Product Roadmap and Enhancements 4 Improving our family of products is how we create more value for our customers and our product roadmap is an essential part of delivering on our vision of improving the value of customer interactions for companies throughout the world. The role of product management at Banzai is to identify and prioritize underserved and unmet customer and market needs and to use our deep technology experience to create products and features based on data and AI to increase customer value. We have a unique management framework at Banzai that we feel is a core part of our success. We use this framework to align our cross-functional objectives around a set of strategies that we update as the needs of our business change. We use these strategies to create alignment for our engineering, sales, and marketing teams. This helps us to work cohesively towards shared goals, maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of our efforts. By prioritizing our customers in both product development and acquisitions, we demonstrate a commitment to addressing the evolving needs and expectations of the markets we serve. This customer-centric approach helps us maintain a competitive edge, as we continuously adapt our products and services to stay relevant . By identifying opportunities for new features, enhancements, and market segments, we can strategically plan and execute our growth initiatives, supporting our long-term sustainability and success. Customer Expansion is key to our long-term vision. We believe our strategies support increasing the average amount of revenue we earn per customer per year through development of features that are correlated with usage by higher value customers. We also develop add-on features and products that can be sold to our existing customers. Research and Development Expenses As a product-led company, we attain and maintain our competitive advantage through our investment in our products. Maintenance of existing products and development of new products are both essential to our long-term success. Therefore, our management team feels that significant investment in technology is required in the future. We plan to utilize a combination of in-house employees and development partners to maintain and improve our technology. Our Growth Strategies Our growth strategy is to expand our platform to make it more valuable to customers and find new ways to enhance a wider range of MarTech interactions. The key elements of our growth strategy are: 1. Cost Efficient Customer Acquisition : Continue to acquire new customers cost effectively through organic traffic, content, affiliates, social media, partnerships, advertising, word-of-mouth, and other sources. 2. Customer Retention and Expansion : Continue to expand our customer success and customer marketing organizations to increase customer retention and customer expansion. 3. Implement Product Improvements : Continue to develop our family of products to create defensibly differentiated solutions that are essential to customers. 4. Introduce New Products : Roll out new products that attract new customers and expand the ways we can serve existing customers. 5. Acquisition Strategy: Continue to look for future acquisition opportunities prioritizing companies that are profitable and have highly-rated solutions with customer bases that align with Banzai’s existing customer base. Recent acquisitions Superblocks On November 7, 2025, we acquired the assets of Superblocks, a privately-held Agentic AI platform for developing and hosting launch-ready SEO-optimized websites. The Superblocks platform allows marketers to easily create and host websites, landing pages, and simple web applications using conversational AI. Vidello On January 31, 2025, we acquired Vidello, a private limited company registered in England and Wales. Vidello provides a suite of products for 3D video creation, royalty free music, and video marketing. Vidello offers a comprehensive 5 video hosting and marketing suite that provides entrepreneurs, startups, agencies, and online businesses with tools to grow their businesses. At the acquisition date, Vidello had over 90,000 customers, and their flagship CreateStudio product has been named a Top 3 Best Rated product in the video maker category by Capterra, and a High Performer by G2. OpenReel On December 18, 2024, we acquired OpenReel, a leading enterprise video creation and management solution that empowers companies to create high-quality content at scale and on brand. OpenReel enables businesses of all sizes to cut down on the time-and resource-intensive process of video creation and scale content creation initiatives efficiently, effectively, and securely. OpenReel is trusted by a wide range of customers from small businesses to the Fortune 500. OpenReel is based in New York, with its team distributed worldwide. OpenReel’s enterprise customer base includes global organizations, such as Bristol Myers Squibb, Ingram Micro, DXC Technology, Insider Inc., and US Steel. These acquisitions are a key part of our vision to build a comprehensive suite of AI-powered marketing tools that make marketers' lives faster and easier. For more information regarding these acquisitions, See Note 4 – Acquisitions to our consolidated financial statements included in this Report. Sales and Marketing Our primary focus is on increasing mid-market and enterprise customers. Progress towards this is reflected in our acquisition of OpenReel, adding 650 customers to the overall Banzai customer base, as well as our increase in multi-host Demio customers from 14 to over 240 between January 2021 and December 31, 2025, an approximately seventeen-fold increase. As a product-led growth company, we utilize a hybrid self-service and direct sales go-to-market approach. Our self-service customers subscribe to or purchase directly from our product websites or start free product trials which can lead to a paid subscription or purchase. Our direct sales customers subscribe or purchase through sales representatives, who are compensated with a base salary and commission plans. Trials, customers, and leads come from organic website visitors, affiliates and partners, and visitors from paid ads such as Google ads. We also utilize partner marketing, account-based marketing, lead generation programs, webinars, and other direct and indirect marketing activities to reach our target audience and acquire leads and customers. We sell most of our products using a recurring subscription license model typical in SaaS businesses. Pricing is based on the number of users, desired feature sets, and product capabilities. Our customer contracts vary in term length from single months to multiple years. Our customers often purchase additional services to supplement their initial subscriptions by including additional licenses or products. Competition, Strengths, and Differentiation We compete across a variety of categories within the B2B MarTech landscape including digital events and webinars, demand generation, video creation, engagement platforms and marketing automation, and measurement and attribution. We believe our strengths are our recognizable brand, and the brands of our products, our existing customers, which can be cross-sold additional products, and our operational competency in customer success, which allows us to more effectively leverage our customer base to drive expansion. We seek to differentiate ourselves from the crowded MarTech market through data, either as a primary value proposition or an enabling feature, integrations between our products which already exist and are being developed, and AI and machine learning to deliver new capabilities or improved performance for our customers. Intellectual Property To establish and protect our proprietary rights, we rely on a combination of trademarks and trade secrets, including know-how, license agreements, confidentiality procedures, non-disclosure agreements with third parties, employee disclosure and invention assignment agreements, and other contractual rights. As of December 31, 2025, we held three registered trademarks in the United States: “Banzai,” “Demio,” and “OpenReel.” For more information regarding risks related to our intellectual property, please see “Risk Factors – Risks Related to Business and Industry – Failure to protect or enforce our intellectual property rights could harm our business and results of operations” and “Risk Factors – Risks 6 Related to Business and Industry – Third parties may initiate legal proceedings alleging that we are infringing or otherwise violating their intellectual property rights, the outcome of which would be uncertain and could harm our business.” Government Regulation We are subject to federal, state, and foreign legal requirements on matters customary to the SaaS and MarTech industries such as data privacy and protection, employment and labor relations, immigration, taxation, anti-corruption, import/export controls, trade restrictions, internal and disclosure control obligations, securities regulation, and anti-competition considerations. Regarding privacy and communications, we are subject to the following regulatory standards and laws: the GDPR, CCPA, Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (CAN-SPAM), and others that may apply in the various regions in which we operate. Violations of one or more of these diverse legal requirements in the conduct of our business could result in significant fines and other damages, criminal sanctions against us or our officers, prohibitions on doing business and damage to our reputation. Violations of these regulations or contractual obligations related to regulatory compliance in connection with the performance of customer contracts could also result in liability for significant monetary damages, fines and/or criminal prosecution, unfavorable publicity and other damage to our reputation, restrictions on our ability to compete for certain work and allegations by our customers that we have not performed our contractual obligations. To date, we have not experienced material fines or penalties related to these regulations. Employees and Management As of December 31, 2025, we had 33 full-time employees, 1 part-time employee, and 57 contractors. Our culture is unique and an important contributor to our success. Our culture allows us to scale our business by attracting and retaining great people who are aligned to our values. Having shared values enables our team members to make independent decisions, encourages accountability, and fosters collaboration. Our culture is defined by four core values: 1. Learning. Technology and marketing are constantly changing. We value learning because adaptation is essential to delivering the best solutions for our customers. Our team members are open-minded, critical-thinkers who are willing to disagree, try new things, and change their minds when warranted. 2. Serving Others. Nothing happens without our customers. We value Serving Others because serving customers is the reason we exist. Our team members prioritize the needs of our customers, our team, and our communities. 3. Game Changing. To succeed in a competitive marketplace, we have to deliver impactful solutions for our customers. Our team members find creative solutions, raise the bar, take risks, and help our customers realize more successful outcomes. 4. “10,000 Years.” To achieve long-term success, we must plan and act with the end goal in mind. We value the symbolism of the term “10,000 Years” (the literal translation of the Japanese word “Banzai”), because it reminds us that we’re building for the future—to something greater than what we see today—and that each day we’re contributing toward that vision. Corporate Governance Matters On August 29, 2024, we held a special meeting of shareholders (the “Special Meeting”) at which the shareholders approved the proposal to amend our Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to effect a reverse stock split of our Class A Common Stock, at a ratio of up to 1-for-50, with the final ratio and exact timing to be determined at the discretion of the Board of Directors ("Board"). On September 10, 2024, our Board determined to effect a reverse stock split at a ratio of 1-for-50 (the “September Reverse Stock Split”), effective on September 19, 2024. Accordingly, we filed an amendment to our Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Delaware Secretary of State, which is filed as Exhibit 3.3 to this Report. Subsequently, we effected a 1-for-10 reverse stock split of the shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, effective as of July 8, 2025 (the “July Reverse Stock Split”). 7 Due to prior noncompliance with certain Nasdaq listing rules, we had a hearing before The Nasdaq Hearings Panel (the “Nasdaq Panel”), on September 19, 2024. Following that hearing, the Nasdaq Panel determined to phase our Class A Common Stock down from The Nasdaq Global Market to The Nasdaq Capital Market. As of October 31, 2024, our Class A Common Stock began trading on The Nasdaq Capital Market, under the same symbol, BNZI. On October 18, 2024, we received a letter from Nasdaq stating that we had regained compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5450(a)(1) (the “Minimum Bid Price Requirement”) by maintaining a minimum closing bid price of $1.00 or greater per share for the 10 consecutive business days, from September 19, 2024 through October 18, 2024, and that the Minimum Bid Price Requirement matter is now closed. We were still required to regain compliance with Listing Rule 5450(b)(2)(A) (the (“Market Value of Listed Securities”). On November 7, 2024, we received a letter from the staff at Nasdaq in relation to a letter from April 3, 2024, notifying us that, for the 10 consecutive trading days, from October 24, 2024 to November 6, 2024, our MVPHS had been $1,000,000 or greater, and accordingly Nasdaq determined that we had regained compliance with Listing Rule 5550(a)(5) (the equivalent of Listing Rule 5450(b)(2)(A) applicable to the Nasdaq Capital Market, to which our Class A Common Stock had been phased down as of October 31, 2024, and together with all the Listing Rules noted above, the "Nasdaq Rules") and the matter was closed. On February 12, 2025, we received a letter from the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC, Office of the General Counsel that Nasdaq’s Listing Qualifications staff confirmed that we had demonstrated compliance with all of The Nasdaq Stock Market’s listing requirements and therefore our securities remained listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market. Please see “ Risk Factors ” for more information. On February 28, 2025, we held a special meeting of shareholders. In addition to other approvals, the shareholders approved an amendment to our Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to permit stockholder action by written consent. At our 2025 Annual Shareholder Meeting held on January 15, 2026, shareholders approved a change to Section 3.5 of the Company’s Bylaws regarding quorum requirements such that the presence, in person, by remote communication, if applicable, or by duly authorized proxy, of the holders of 33.3% of the voting power of the then-outstanding shares of capital stock entitled to vote shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Available Information We file with, or furnish to, the SEC reports, including our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. These reports are available free of charge via EDGAR through the SEC website ( www.sec.gov ) and are also available free of charge on our corporate website ( https://ir.banzai.io/financial-information/sec-filings ) as soon as reasonably practicable after they are electronically filed with or furnished to the SEC. The foregoing website addresses are provided as inactive textual references only. The information provided on our website (or any other website referred to in this report) is not part of this Report and is not incorporated by reference as part of this Report. Item 1A. Risk Factors. Investing in our securities involves risks. Before you make a decision to buy or sell our securities, in addition to the risks and uncertainties discussed above under “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements,” you should carefully consider the specific risks set forth herein. If any of these risks actually occur, it may materially harm our business, financial condition, liquidity and results of operations. As a result, the market price of our securities could decline, and you could lose all or part of your investment. Additionally, the risks and uncertainties described in this Report are not the only risks and uncertainties that we face. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently believe to be immaterial may become material and adversely affect our business. Risk Factors Summary The following is a summary of the principal risks that could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations in future periods. The summary should be read together with the more detailed description of each risk factor described below. Risks Related to our Business and Industry ▪ We have incurred significant operating losses in the past and may never achieve or maintain profitability. 8 ▪ We have a limited operating history with our current offerings, which makes it difficult to evaluate our current and future business prospects and increases the risk of your investment. ▪ Our revenue growth rate depends on existing customers renewing and maintaining or expanding their subscriptions, and if we fail to retain our customers at current or expanded subscriptions, our business will be harmed. ▪ If we are unable to attract new customers on a cost-effective basis, our business will be harmed. ▪ If we fail to effectively manage our growth, our business, results of operations, and financial condition may be harmed. ▪ We may be unable to successfully execute on our growth initiatives, business strategies, or operating plans. ▪ If the assumptions, analyses, and estimates upon which our forecasts, projections and outlook are based prove to be incorrect or inaccurate, our actual results may differ materially from those forecasted or projected. ▪ If we fail to attract and retain qualified personnel, our business could be harmed. ▪ Our management team has a limited history working together operating the Company and, as a result, our past results may not be indicative of future operating performance. ▪ We may not successfully develop or introduce new and enhanced products that achieve market acceptance, or successfully integrate acquired products or services with our existing products, and our business could be harmed and our revenue could suffer as a result. ▪ If we do not adequately fund our development efforts, we may not be able to compete effectively and our business and operating results may be harmed. ▪ Our acquisitions of, and investments in, other businesses, products, or technologies may not yield expected benefits and our inability to successfully integrate acquisitions may negatively impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations. ▪ We face significant competition from both established and new companies offering marketing, sales, and engagement software and other related applications, as well as internally developed software, which may harm our ability to add new customers, retain existing customers, and grow our business. ▪ Our business, results of operations, and financial condition may fluctuate on a quarterly and annual basis, which may result in a decline in our stock price if such fluctuations result in a failure to meet any projections that we may provide or the expectations of securities analysts or investors. ▪ Because we recognize revenue from subscriptions for our product offerings over the terms of the subscriptions, our financial results in any period may not be indicative of our financial health and future performance. ▪ Our sales cycle can be lengthy and unpredictable, which may cause our operating results to vary significantly. ▪ Covenant restrictions in our existing or future debt instruments may limit our flexibility to operate and grow our business, and if we are not able to comply with such covenants or pay amounts when due, our lenders could accelerate our indebtedness, proceed against certain collateral or exercise other remedies, which could have a material adverse effect on us. ▪ The impacts of geopolitical, macroeconomic, and market conditions, including pandemics, epidemics and other public health crises, have had, and may continue to have, a significant effect on our industry, which in turn affects how we and our customers are operating our respective businesses. Our business is susceptible to declines or disruptions in the demand for meetings and events, including those due to economic downturns, natural disasters, geopolitical upheaval, and global pandemics. ▪ Cybersecurity and data security breaches and ransomware attacks may create financial liabilities for us, damage our reputation, and harm our business. ▪ Privacy and data security laws and regulations could impose additional costs and reduce demand for our solutions. ▪ Our product offerings, solutions, and internal systems, as well as external internet infrastructure, may be subject to disruption that could harm our reputation and future sales or result in claims against us. ▪ Undetected defects in our product offerings could harm our reputation or decrease market acceptance of our product offerings, which would harm our business and results of operations. 9 ▪ We rely on internet infrastructure, bandwidth providers, data center providers, other third parties, and our own systems for providing solutions to our customers, and any failure or interruption in the services provided by these third parties or our own systems could expose us to litigation and negatively impact our relationships with customers, adversely affecting our brand and our business. ▪ If we fail to effectively maintain and enhance our brands, our business may suffer. ▪ Our ability to use our net operating loss to offset future taxable income may be subject to certain limitations. ▪ We need to continue making significant investments in software development and equipment to improve our business. ▪ Adverse litigation results could have a material adverse impact on our business. ▪ Failure to protect or enforce our intellectual property rights could harm our business and results of operations. ▪ Third parties may initiate legal proceedings alleging that we are infringing or otherwise violating their intellectual property rights, the outcome of which would be uncertain and could harm our business. ▪ Our use of open source software could adversely affect our ability to offer our solutions and subject us to possible litigation. Risks Related to Ownership of Our Securities ▪ In order to support the growth of our business and repay our indebtedness, we will need to seek capital through new equity or debt financings or incur additional indebtedness under our credit facilities, which sources of additional capital may not be available to us on acceptable terms or at all. ▪ Future sales of shares of Class A Common Stock may depress their stock price. ▪ Issuances of shares of Class A Common Stock pursuant to any Advances under the SEPA (as defined below), exercise of the GEM Warrant (as defined below) and conversion of any amounts under the Notes would result in substantial dilution of our stockholders and may have a negative impact on the market price of our Class A Common Stock. ▪ Nasdaq (as defined below) may delist our securities from trading on its exchange, which could limit investors’ ability to make transactions in our securities and subject us to additional trading restrictions. ▪ If our Class A Common Stock ceases to be listed on a national securities exchange it will become subject to the so-called “penny stock” rules that impose restrictive sales practice requirements. ▪ Our dual class common stock structure has the effect of concentrating voting power with our Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Joseph Davy, which may limit an investor’s ability to influence the outcome of important transactions, including a change in control. ▪ We cannot predict the impact our dual class structure will have on the market price of Class A Common Stock. ▪ The market price of Class A Common Stock is likely to be highly volatile, and you may lose some or all of your investment. ▪ Volatility in the price of Class A Common Stock could subject us to securities class action litigation. ▪ If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or reports about us, or publish negative reports, then our stock price and trading volume could decline. ▪ We will incur increased costs and demands upon management as a result of complying with the laws and regulations affecting public companies, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations, and financial condition. ▪ We have identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. If we are unable to remediate these material weaknesses, or if we identify additional material weaknesses in the future or otherwise fail to maintain an effective system of internal controls, we may not be able to accurately or timely report our financial condition or results of operations, which may adversely affect our business and stock price. ▪ Our executive officers and directors collectively beneficially own approximately 27.1% of the voting power of our outstanding Common Stock and may have significant influence over the outcome of important transactions, including a change in control. 10 ▪ It is not currently anticipated that we will pay dividends on shares of Class A Common Stock, and, consequently, your ability to achieve a return on your investment will depend on appreciation, if any, in the market price of Class A Common Stock. ▪ The Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”) and our Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (“Charter”) and Second Amended and Restated Bylaws (“Bylaws”) contain certain provisions, including anti-takeover provisions, that limit the ability of stockholders to take certain actions and could delay or discourage takeover attempts that stockholders may consider favorable. ▪ Our Charter designates the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware and, to the extent enforceable, the federal district courts of the United States of America as the exclusive forums for substantially all disputes between us and our stockholders, which restricts our stockholders’ ability to choose the judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, or employees. ▪ The exclusive forum clause set forth in certain of the agreements covering certain outstanding warrants may have the effect of limiting an investor’s rights to bring legal action and could limit the investor’s ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum. ▪ We are a smaller reporting company. We cannot be certain whether the reduced disclosure requirements applicable to smaller reporting companies will make our Class A Common Stock less attractive to investors or otherwise limit our ability to raise additional funds. ▪ If our estimates or judgments relating to our critical accounting policies prove to be incorrect or financial reporting standards or interpretations change, our results of operations could be adversely affected. ▪ Outstanding warrants may never be in the money and they may expire worthless and therefore we may not receive cash proceeds from the exercise of the Warrants. The terms of the warrants may be amended in a manner adverse to a holder if holders of at least 50% of the then outstanding public warrants approve of such amendment. ▪ We may redeem your unexpired Public Warrants (as hereinafter defined) prior to their exercise at a time that is disadvantageous to you, thereby making your Public Warrants worthless. ▪ We may issue additional shares of Class A Common Stock or Preferred Stock, including under our equity incentive plan. Any such issuances would dilute the interest of our stockholders and likely present other risks. ▪ Sales of a substantial number of shares of Class A Common Stock in the public market pursuant to our effective registration statement could reduce the market price of Class A Common Stock. ▪ Our stock is subject to minimum requirements to remain listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market, including a minimum bid price requirement and stockholders’ equity requirement, and may be delisted if it does not maintain or regain, as applicable, compliance with those requirements. ▪ Holders of convertible promissory notes have certain rights upon an event of default under their respective agreements that could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations and could require us to curtail or cease our operations. Risks Related to our Business and Industry We have incurred significant operating losses in the past and may never achieve or maintain profitability. We have incurred significant operating losses since our inception, including operating losses of $18.5 million, and $13.5 million, in the years ended December 31, 2025, and 2024, respectively. We expect our costs will increase substantially in the foreseeable future and our losses will continue as we expect to invest significant additional funds towards growing our business and operating as a public company and as we continue to invest in increasing our customer base, expanding our operations, hiring additional sales and other personnel, developing future products, and potentially acquiring complementary technology and businesses. These efforts may prove more expensive than we currently anticipate, and we may not succeed in increasing our revenue sufficiently to offset these higher expenses. We are unable to accurately predict when, or if, we will be able to achieve profitability. Even if we achieve profitability in the future, we may not be able to sustain profitability in subsequent periods. To date, we have financed our operations principally from the sale of our equity, revenue from sales, and the incurrence of indebtedness. Our cash flow from operations was negative for the years ended December 31, 2025, and 2024, and we may not generate positive cash flow from operations in any given period. If we are not able to achieve or maintain positive cash flow in the long term, we may require additional financing, which may not be available on favorable terms or at all and/or which would be dilutive to our stockholders. If 11 we are unable to successfully address these risks and challenges as we encounter them, our business may be harmed. Our failure to achieve or maintain profitability or positive cash flow could negatively impact the value of our Class A Common Stock. There is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern, and holders of our securities could suffer a total loss of their investment. We may need to raise additional capital to continue our operations. Such capital may not be available to us or may not be available at terms we deem acceptable, either of which could reduce our ability to compete and could negatively affect our business. Management has concluded, and the report of our auditors included in this Report reflect, that there is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern within 12 months after the date of this Report. The reaction of investors to the inclusion of a going concern statement by management and our auditors and our potential inability to continue as a going concern may materially adversely affect the price of our publicly traded securities and our ability to raise new capital or enter into partnerships. If we are unable to continue as a going concern, we may have to liquidate our assets and may receive less than the value at which those assets are carried on our financial statements, and it is likely that investors will lose all or part of their investment. Further, the perception that we may be unable to continue as a going concern may impede our ability to pursue strategic opportunities or operate our business due to concerns regarding our ability to fulfill our contractual obligations. In addition, if there remains substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern, investors or other financing sources may be unwilling to provide additional funding to us on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. There can be no assurance that we will be able to achieve our forecast or to raise additional capital in sufficient amounts or on favorable terms, or at all. If we are unable to meet or exceed our forecast or raise adequate additional capital when required or in sufficient amounts or on terms acceptable to us, we may have to significantly reduce expenses, sell assets (potentially at a loss), cease operations altogether, pursue an acquisition of our company at a price that may result in up to a total loss on investment for our securityholders, file for bankruptcy or seek other protection from creditors, or liquidate all of our assets. We have a limited operating history with our current offerings, which makes it difficult to evaluate our current and future business prospects and increases the risk of your investment. While we served our first customer in 2017 (operating as Legacy Banzai), we have significantly altered our product offerings over the past few years. Our limited operating history with respect to our current product offerings makes it difficult to effectively assess or forecast our future prospects. For example, i n 2021, we acquired Demio, a webinar platform startup, and integrated Demio’s platform into our service offerings, in 2023, we launched Boost, a tool used by Demio customers to enhance participation in their Demio webinars, and in 2025, we acquired Vidello, a technology provider of video hosting and marketing suite solutions for businesses. You should consider our business and prospects in light of the risks and difficulties we encounter or may encounter. These risks and difficulties include our ability to cost-effectively acquire new customers, retain existing customers, and expand the scope of the platform we sell to new and existing customers. Furthermore, in pursuit of our growth strategy, we may enter into new partnerships to further penetrate our targeted markets and adoption of our solutions, but it is uncertain whether these efforts will be successful. If we fail to address the risks and difficulties that we may face, including those associated with the challenges listed above, our business, prospects, financial condition, and operating results may be materially and adversely harmed. It is difficult to predict our future revenues and appropriately budget for our expenses, and we have limited insight into trends that may emerge and affect our business. In the event that actual results differ from our estimates, or we adjust our estimates in future periods, our operating results and financial position could be materially affected. Our revenue growth rate depends on existing customers renewing and maintaining or expanding their subscriptions, and if we fail to retain our customers at current or expanded subscriptions, our business will be harmed. Our customers have no obligation to renew their subscriptions for our product offerings after the expiration of their subscription periods. Our customers may not renew. Our renewal and reactivation rates may decline because of a number of factors, including, among other things, customer dissatisfaction, customers’ spending levels, decreased return on investment, increased competition, or pricing changes. If our customers do not renew their subscriptions or downgrade the products purchased under their subscriptions, our revenue may decline, and our business may be harmed. We also face customer retention issues associated with mergers and acquisitions. Acquiring businesses and integrating acquired businesses presents significant business risk, including the risk of lost customers. In the past, we have seen varying customer renewal rates, and our forecast for future customer renewals may not materialize. Our future success also depends 12 in part on existing customers expanding their subscriptions. If our efforts to sell upgrades to our customers are not successful, it may decrease our revenue growth rate. If we are unable to attract new customers on a cost-effective basis, our business will be harmed. To grow our business, we must continue to grow our customer base in a cost-effective manner. Increasing our customer base and achieving broader market acceptance of our product offerings will depend, to a significant extent, on our ability to effectively expand our sales and marketing activities. We may not be able to recruit qualified personnel, train them to perform, and achieve an acceptable level of sales production from them on a timely basis or at all. In addition, the cost to attract new customers may increase as we market our existing and new products to different market segments. If we are unable to maintain effective sales and marketing activities, our ability to attract new customers could be harmed, our sales and marketing expenses could increase substantially, and our business may be harmed. Further, to the extent there is a sustained general economic downturn and our customers and potential customers experience delays or reductions in general customer engagement technology spending, potential customers may be unwilling to take on the additional cost associated with adopting our product offerings as an alternative to their existing products or service providers, and if they choose to adopt our products, they may not purchase additional products and services in the future due to budget limitations. If we fail to effectively manage our growth, our business, results of operations, and financial condition would likely be harmed. We expect to continue to experience growth in our headcount and operations, which will continue to place significant demands on our management and our administrative, operational, and financial reporting resources. Our growth will require hiring additional employees and making significant expenditures, particularly in sales and marketing but also in our technology, professional services, finance, and administration teams. Our recent acquisitions also present significant business risk, including the risk of lost customers and revenue, and the risk of increased legal, management, and regulatory expenses. Our ability to effectively manage our growth will require the allocation of management and employee resources along with improvements to operational and financial controls and reporting procedures and systems. Our expenses may increase more than we plan, and we may fail to hire qualified personnel, expand our customer base, enhance our existing products, develop new products, integrate any acquisitions, satisfy the requirements of our existing customers, respond to competitive challenges, or otherwise execute our strategies. If we are unable to effectively manage our growth, our business, results of operations, and financial condition would likely be harmed. We may be unable to successfully execute on our growth initiatives, business strategies, or operating plans. We are continually executing on growth initiatives, strategies, and operating plans designed to enhance our business and extend our existing and future offerings to address evolving needs. The anticipated benefits from these efforts are based on several assumptions that may prove to be inaccurate. Moreover, we may not be able to successfully complete these growth initiatives, strategies, and operating plans and realize all of the benefits, including growth targets and cost savings, that we expect to achieve, or it may be more costly to do so than we anticipate. A variety of risks could cause us not to realize some or all of the expected benefits. These risks include, among others, delays in the anticipated timing of activities related to such growth initiatives, strategies, and operating plans, increased difficulty, and cost in implementing these efforts, including difficulties in complying with new regulatory requirements, the incurrence of other unexpected costs associated with operating our business, and lack of acceptance by our customers. Moreover, our continued implementation of these programs may disrupt our operations and performance. As a result, we cannot assure you that we will realize these benefits. If, for any reason, the benefits we realize are less than our estimates or the implementation of these growth initiatives, strategies, and operating plans adversely affect our operations or cost more or take longer to effectuate than we expect, or if our assumptions prove inaccurate, our business may be harmed. Any forecasts, projections, or outlook we may provide are based upon certain assumptions, analyses, and estimates. If these assumptions, analyses, or estimates prove to be incorrect or inaccurate, our actual results may differ materially from those forecasted or projected. Any forecasts, projections, or outlook, including projected annual recurring revenue, revenue growth, cost of goods sold, operating expense, gross margin, and anticipated organic and inorganic growth, are subject to significant uncertainty and are based on certain assumptions, analyses, and estimates, including with reference to third-party forecasts, any, or all of which may prove to be incorrect or inaccurate. These may include assumptions, analyses, and estimates about future pricing, and future costs, all of which are subject to a wide variety of business, regulatory, and competitive risks, and 13 uncertainties. If these assumptions, analyses, or estimates prove to be incorrect or inaccurate, our actual results may differ materially from those forecasted or projected and may adversely affect the value of our Class A Common Stock. If we fail to attract and retain qualified personnel, our business could be harmed. Our success depends in large part on our ability to attract, integrate, motivate, and retain highly qualified personnel at a reasonable cost on the terms we desire, particularly sales and marketing personnel, software developers, and technical and customer support. Competition for skilled personnel, particularly in the technology industry, is intense and we may not be successful in attracting, motivating, and retaining needed personnel. We also may be unable to attract or integrate into our operations qualified personnel on the schedule we desire. We have from time to time experienced, and we expect to continue to experience, difficulty in attracting, integrating, motivating, and retaining highly qualified personnel, which could harm our business. In addition, dealing with the loss of the services of our executive officers or other key personnel and the process to replace any of our executive officers or other key personnel may involve significant time and expense, take longer than anticipated, and significantly delay or prevent the achievement of our business objectives, which may harm our business. Our management team has a limited history working together operating the Company and, as a result, our past results may not be indicative of future operating performance. We have a limited history working together operating the Company, which makes it difficult to forecast our future results. Our strategy of acquiring and integrating new operating businesses further compounds this risk. You should not rely on our past quarterly operating results as indicators of future performance. In addition, you should consider and evaluate our prospects in light of the risks and uncertainties frequently encountered by companies in rapidly evolving markets like ours, as well as the information included in this Report. We may not successfully develop or introduce new and enhanced products that achieve market acceptance, or successfully integrate acquired products or services with our existing products, and our business could be harmed, and our revenue could suffer as a result. Our ability to attract new customers and increase revenue from existing customers will likely depend upon the successful development, introduction, and customer acceptance of new and enhanced versions of our product offerings and on our ability to integrate any products and services that we may acquire, as well as our ability to add new functionality and respond to technological advancements. Moreover, if we are unable to expand our product offerings, our customers could migrate to competitors. Our business could be harmed if we fail to deliver new versions, upgrades, or other enhancements to our existing products to meet customer needs on a timely and cost-effective basis. Unexpected delays in releasing new or enhanced versions of our product offerings, or errors following their release, could result in loss of sales, delay in market acceptance, or customer claims against us, any of which could harm our business. The success of any new product depends on several factors, including timely completion, adequate quality testing, and market acceptance. We may not be able to develop new products successfully or to introduce and gain market acceptance of new solutions in a timely manner, or at all. If we are unable to develop new applications or products that address our customers’ needs, or to enhance and improve our product offerings in a timely manner, we may not be able to maintain or increase customer use of our products. Our ability to introduce new products and features is dependent on adequate development resources. If we do not adequately fund our development efforts, we may not be able to compete effectively, and our business and operating results may be harmed. To remain competitive, we must continue to develop new product offerings, applications, features, and enhancements to our existing product offerings. Maintaining adequate development personnel and resources to meet the demands of the market is essential. If we are unable to develop our product offerings internally due to certain constraints, such as high employee turnover, lack of management ability, or a lack of other research and development resources, we may miss market opportunities. Further, many of our competitors expend a considerably greater amount of funds on their development programs, and those that do not may be acquired by larger companies that would allocate greater resources to our competitors’ development programs. Our failure to maintain adequate development resources or to compete effectively with the development programs of our competitors could materially adversely affect our business. Our acquisitions of, and investments in, other businesses, products, or technologies may not yield expected benefits and our inability to successfully integrate acquisitions may negatively impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations. 14 In the past, we have pursued acquisitions of technology and expertise to enhance the products and services we offer, including OpenReel in 2024 and Vidello in 2025. We anticipate that we will continue to make acquisitions of or investments in businesses, products, and technologies in the future. We may not realize the anticipated benefits, or any benefits, from our past or future acquisitions. In addition, if we finance acquisitions by incurring debt or by issuing equity or convertible or other debt securities, our then-existing stockholders may be diluted, or we could face constraints related to the repayment of indebtedness. To the extent that the acquisition consideration is paid in the form of an earnout on future financial results, the success of such an acquisition will not be fully realized by us for a period of time as it is shared with the sellers. Further, if we fail to properly evaluate and execute acquisitions or investments, our business and prospects may be harmed, and the value of your investment may decline. For us to realize the benefits of past and future acquisitions, we must successfully integrate the acquired businesses, products, or technologies with ours. Some of the challenges to successful integration of our acquisitions include: ▪ unanticipated costs or liabilities resulting from our acquisitions; ▪ retention of key employees from acquired businesses; ▪ difficulties integrating acquired operations, personnel, technologies, or products; ▪ diversion of management attention from existing business operations and strategy; ▪ diversion of resources that are needed in other parts of our business, including integration of other acquisitions; ▪ potential write-offs of acquired assets; ▪ inability to maintain relationships with customers and partners of the acquired businesses; ▪ difficulty of transitioning acquired technology and related infrastructures into our existing product offerings; ▪ difficulty maintaining security and privacy standards of acquired technology consistent with our existing products; ▪ potential financial and credit risks associated with the acquired businesses or their customers; ▪ the need to implement internal controls, procedures, and policies at the acquired companies; ▪ the need to comply with additional laws and regulations applicable to the acquired businesses; and ▪ the income and indirect tax impacts of any such acquisitions. Our failure to address these risks or other problems encountered in connection with our past or future acquisitions and investments could cause us to fail to realize the anticipated benefits of such acquisitions or investments and negatively impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations. We may not be able to find attractive targets for future acquisitions. Our strategy of growing by acquiring and integrating businesses may prove to be more challenging due to market conditions including lack of attractive acquisition targets, challenges financing acquisitions, challenges negotiating acceptable terms for acquisitions, and challenges working with present management of newly acquired businesses. There is no guarantee we will be able to make future acquisitions or if we do, that we will be able to successfully integrate them into our other product offerings, or will be operated effectively under new management. This could adversely impact our business and our stock price. We face significant competition from both established and new companies offering marketing, sales, and engagement software and other related applications, as well as internally developed software, which may harm our ability to add new customers, retain existing customers, and grow our business. The marketing, sales, customer service, operations, and engagement software market is evolving, highly competitive, and significantly fragmented. With the introduction of new technologies and the potential entry of new competitors into the market, we expect competition to persist and intensify in the future, which could harm our ability to increase sales, maintain or increase renewals, and maintain our prices. We face intense competition from other software companies that develop marketing, sales, customer service, operations, and engagement management software and from marketing services companies that provide interactive marketing services. Competition could significantly impede our ability to sell subscriptions to our products on terms 15 favorable to us. Our current and potential competitors may develop and market new technologies that render our existing or future products less competitive or obsolete. In addition, if these competitors develop products with similar or superior functionality to our platform, we may need to decrease the prices or accept less favorable terms for our platform subscriptions in order to remain competitive. If we are unable to maintain our pricing due to competitive pressures, our margins will be reduced, and our operating results will be negatively affected. Our competitors include: ▪ Vimeo, Zoom, and GoToWebinar with respect to video platforms; ▪ Mailchimp and Constant Contact with respect to email marketing; and ▪ Marketo, Hubspot, and Braze with respect to marketing automation platforms. We compete across five distinct categories within the B2B (as defined below) MarTech landscape: digital events and webinars, demand generation, creative development, engagement platforms and marketing automation, and measurement and attribution. Our current and potential competitors within any or all of such categories may have significantly more financial, technical, marketing, and other resources than we have, be able to devote greater resources to the development, promotion, sale, and support of their products and services, may have more extensive customer bases and broader customer relationships than we have, and may have longer operating histories and greater name recognition than we have. As a result, these competitors may respond faster to new technologies and undertake more extensive marketing campaigns for their products. In a few cases, these vendors may also be able to offer additional software at little or no additional cost by bundling it with their existing suite of applications. To the extent any of our competitors has existing relationships with potential customers for either marketing software or other applications, those customers may be unwilling to purchase our products because of their existing relationships with our competitor. If we are unable to compete with such companies, the demand for our product offerings could substantially decline. In addition, if one or more of our competitors were to merge or partner with another of our competitors, our ability to compete effectively could be adversely affected. Our competitors may also establish or strengthen cooperative relationships with our current or future strategic distribution and technology partners or other parties with whom we have relationships, thereby limiting our ability to promote and implement our product offerings. We may not be able to compete successfully against current or future competitors, and competitive pressures may harm our business. Our business, results of operations, and financial condition may fluctuate on a quarterly and annual basis, which may result in a decline in our stock price if such fluctuations result in a failure to meet any projections that we may provide or the expectations of securities analysts or investors. Our operating results have in the past and could in the future vary significantly from quarter-to-quarter and year-to-year and may fail to match our past performance, our projections, or the expectations of securities analysts because of a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control and, as a result, should not be relied upon as an indicator of future performance. As a result, we may not be able to accurately forecast our operating results and growth rate. Any of these events could cause the market price of Class A Common Stock to fluctuate. Factors that may contribute to the variability of our operating results include: ▪ our ability to attract new customers and retain existing customers; ▪ the financial condition of our current and potential customers; ▪ changes in our sales and implementation cycles; ▪ introductions and expansions of our product offerings, offerings, or challenges with their introduction; ▪ changes in our pricing or fee structures or those of our competitors; ▪ the timing and success of new offering introductions by us or our competitors or any other change in the competitive landscape of our industry; ▪ increases in operating expenses that we may incur to grow and expand our operations and to remain competitive; ▪ our ability to successfully expand our business; ▪ breaches of information security or privacy; 16 ▪ changes in stock-based compensation expenses; ▪ the amount and timing of operating costs and capital expenditures related to the expansion of our business; ▪ adverse litigation judgments, settlements, or other litigation-related costs; ▪ the cost and potential outcomes of ongoing or future regulatory investigations or examinations, or of future litigation; ▪ changes in our effective tax rate; ▪ our ability to make accurate accounting estimates and appropriately recognize revenue for our existing and future offerings; ▪ changes in accounting standards, policies, guidance, interpretations, or principles; ▪ instability in the financial markets; ▪ general economic conditions, both domestic and international; ▪ volatility in the global financial markets; ▪ political, economic, and social instability, including terrorist activities and outbreaks of public health threats, such as coronavirus, influenza, or other highly communicable diseases or viruses, and any disruption these events may cause to the global economy; and ▪ changes in business or macroeconomic conditions. The impact of one or more of the foregoing and other factors may cause our operating results to vary significantly. As such, we believe that quarter-to-quarter and year-to-year comparisons of our operating results may not be meaningful and should not be relied upon as an indication of future performance. Since we recognize revenue from subscriptions for our product offerings over the terms of the subscriptions, our financial results in any period may not be indicative of our financial health and future performance. We generally recognize revenue from subscription fees paid by customers ratably over the terms of their subscription agreements. As a result, most of the subscription revenue we report in each quarter is the result of agreements entered into during previous quarters. Consequently, a decline in new or renewed subscriptions in any one quarter will not be fully reflected in our revenue results for that quarter. Any such decline, however, will negatively affect our revenue in future quarters. Our subscription model also makes it difficult for us to rapidly increase our revenue through additional sales in any period, as subscription revenue from new customers must be recognized over the applicable subscription terms. Our sales cycle can be lengthy and unpredictable, which may cause our operating results to vary significantly. Our sales cycle, which is the time between initial contact with a potential new customer and the ultimate sale to that customer, is often lengthy and unpredictable. Potential new customers typically spend significant time and resources evaluating product offering solutions, which requires us to expend substantial time, effort, and money educating them about the value of our platform. Accordingly, it is difficult for us to forecast when or if a sale will close or the size of any specific sales to new customers. In addition, customers may delay their purchases from one quarter to another as they wait for us to develop new features, assess their budget constraints, or forecast future business activity. Any delay in closing, or failure to close, sales in a particular quarter or year could significantly harm our projected growth rates and could cause our operating results to vary significantly. Covenant restrictions in our existing or future debt instruments may limit our flexibility to operate and grow our business, and if we are not able to comply with such covenants or pay amounts when due, our lenders could accelerate our indebtedness, proceed against certain collateral, or exercise other remedies, which could have a material adverse effect on us. We are party to, and may in the future enter into, debt and other financing instruments that contain operating and financial covenants and other restrictions, and such instruments may also include equity-linked features, such as warrants. These covenants and restrictions, subject to certain exceptions, may limit our ability to, among other things, incur additional indebtedness, pay dividends or make distributions, redeem or repurchase our securities, make certain investments, grant liens on our assets, sell or dispose of material assets, or engage in acquisitions, mergers, or other strategic transactions. As a result, covenant restrictions in our existing or future debt instruments may limit our flexibility to operate 17 and grow our business. In addition, these arrangements may include affirmative covenants that require us to take, or cause to be taken, specific actions by specified dates, and our ability to comply with such covenants depends on our future operating performance and other factors, including events outside of our control. In the past, we have been required to seek waivers, amendments, or forbearance from lenders or other counterparties, and we may be required to do so again in the future. There can be no assurance that any such waivers, amendments, or forbearance will be obtained on acceptable terms, or at all. Complying with these covenants, as well as those that may be contained in any future debt agreements, may limit our ability to finance our future operations or working capital needs or to take advantage of future business opportunities. If we fail to comply with applicable covenants, reporting requirements, or other terms and conditions, and any default is not cured or waived, our lenders could accelerate our indebtedness, proceed against certain collateral, or exercise other remedies. If amounts are accelerated, we may not have sufficient liquidity to repay the obligations when due, and we may not be able to obtain additional financing or refinancing on acceptable terms, or at all. Any of the foregoing could materially and adversely affect our liquidity, business, results of operations, and financial condition. The impacts of geopolitical, macroeconomic, and market conditions, including pandemics, epidemics, and other public health crises, have had, and may continue to have, a significant effect on our industry, which in turn affects how we and our customers are operating our respective businesses. Our business is susceptible to declines or disruptions in the demand for meetings and events, including those due to economic downturns, natural disasters, geopolitical upheaval, and global pandemics. The macroeconomic impacts of geopolitical events, such as pandemics, inflation, labor shortages, lack of access to capital, lack of consumer confidence, supply chain disruptions, and market volatility can pose risks to our and our customers’ business. Uncertainty about the duration of these negative macroeconomic conditions has impacted fiscal and monetary policy, including increases in interest rates, increased labor costs, and decreased corporate and consumer spending. The effects from a broadening or protracted extension of these conditions could result in a decrease in overall economic activity, hinder economic growth, or cause a recession in the United States or in the global economy. We sell our products throughout the United States and in other countries to commercial and non-profit customers. As a result, our business may be harmed by factors in the United States and other countries such as disruptions in financial markets; reductions in spending, or downturns in economic activity in specific countries or regions, or in the various industries in which we operate; social, political, or labor conditions in specific countries or regions; or adverse changes in the availability and cost of capital, interest rates, tax rates, or regulations. Further economic weakness and uncertainty may result in significantly decreased spending on our event marketing and management solutions, which may adversely affect our business. Our business depends on discretionary corporate spending. Negative macroeconomic conditions may adversely affect our customers’ businesses and reduce our customers’ operating expense budgets, which could result in reduced demand for our product offerings or cancellations, increased demands for pricing accommodations or higher rates of delays in collection of, or losses on, our accounts receivable, which could adversely affect our results of operations and financial position. During periods of economic slowdown and recession, consumers have historically reduced their discretionary spending, and our ability to sign new customers, and to upsell to and renew contracts with our existing customers may be significantly impacted. Additionally, challenging economic conditions also may impair the ability of our customers to pay for products and services they have purchased. As a result, our cash flow may be negatively impacted and our allowance for credit losses and write-offs of accounts receivable may increase. If we are unable to offset any decrease in revenue by increasing sales to new or existing customers, or otherwise offset higher costs through price increases, our revenue may decline. The extent to which the ongoing impacts of these negative macroeconomic conditions will impact our business, results of operations, and financial position is uncertain and will depend on political, social, economic, and regulatory factors that are outside of our control, including actions that may be taken by regulators and businesses (including our customers) in response to the macroeconomic uncertainty. Our business and financial performance may be unfavorably impacted in future periods if a significant number of our customers are unable to continue as viable businesses or they significantly reduce their operating budgets, or if there is a reduction in business confidence and activity, a decrease in government, corporate and consumer spending, or a decrease in growth in the overall market, among other factors. Our business and financial performance are affected by the health of the worldwide meetings and events industry. Meetings and events are sensitive to business-related discretionary spending levels and tend to grow more slowly or even decline during economic downturns. Decreased expenditures by marketers and participants could also result in decreased demand for our product offerings, thereby causing a reduction in our sales. The impact of economic slowdowns on our business is difficult to predict but has and may continue to result in reductions in events and our ability to generate revenue. 18 Cybersecurity and data security breaches and ransomware attacks may create financial liabilities for us, damage our reputation, and harm our business. Our customers provide us with information that our solutions store, some of which is confidential information. In addition, we store personal information about our employees. We have security systems and information technology infrastructure designed to protect against unauthorized access to such information and money, but we may not be successful in protecting against all security breaches and cyber-attacks. Threats to and breaches of our information technology security can take various forms, including viruses, worms, ransomware, and other malicious software programs, or actions or omissions by an employee. Significant cybersecurity or data security breaches could result in the loss of business, litigation, regulatory investigations, loss of customers, and penalties that could damage our reputation and adversely affect the growth of our business. In some cases, we must rely on the safeguards put in place by third parties to protect against security threats. These third parties, including vendors that provide products and services for our operations and our network of business application providers, could also be a source of security risk to us in the event of a failure of their own security systems and infrastructure, whether unintentionally or through a malicious backdoor. We do not review the software code included in third-party integrations in all instances. Because the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access, sabotage systems, or otherwise access data and/or data backups change frequently and generally are not recognized until launched against a target, we or these third parties have been and, in the future, may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate preventative measures. With the increasing frequency of cyber-related frauds to obtain inappropriate payments, we need to ensure our internal controls related to authorizing the transfer of funds are adequate. We may also be required to expend resources to remediate cyber-related incidents or to enhance and strengthen our cybersecurity. Any of these occurrences could create liability for us, put our reputation in jeopardy, and harm our business. Privacy and data security laws and regulations could impose additional costs and reduce demand for our solutions. We store and transmit personal information relating to our employees, customers, prospective customers, and other individuals, and our customers use our technology platform to store and transmit a significant amount of personal information relating to their customers, vendors, employees, and other industry participants. Federal, state, and foreign government bodies and agencies have adopted, and are increasingly adopting, laws and regulations regarding the collection, use, processing, storage, and disclosure of personal or identifying information obtained from customers and other individuals. These obligations have and will likely continue to increase the cost and complexity of delivering our services. In addition to government regulation, privacy advocates and industry groups may propose various self-regulatory standards that may legally or contractually apply to our business. As new laws, regulations, and industry standards take effect, and as we offer new services in new markets, market segments and, potentially, new industries, we will need to understand and comply with various new requirements, which may impede our plans for growth or result in significant additional costs. These laws, regulations, and industry standards have had, and will likely continue to have, negative effects on our business, including by increasing our costs and operating expenses, and/or delaying or impeding our deployment of new or existing core functionality. Failure to comply with these laws, regulations, and industry standards could result in negative publicity, subject us to fines or penalties, expose us to litigation, or result in demands that we modify or cease existing business practices. Furthermore, privacy and data security concerns may cause our customers’ customers, vendors, employees, and other industry participants to resist providing the personal information necessary to allow our customers to use our applications effectively, which could reduce overall demand for our product offerings. Any of these outcomes could harm our business. Our product offerings, solutions, and internal systems, as well as external internet infrastructure, may be subject to disruption that could harm our reputation and future sales or result in claims against us. Because our operations involve delivering engagement solutions to our customers through a cloud-based software platform, our continued growth depends in part on the ability of our platform and related computer equipment, third-party data centers, infrastructure, and systems to continue to support our product offerings. In addition, in delivering our products to customers, we are reliant on internet infrastructure limitations. In the past, we have experienced temporary and limited platform disruptions, outages in our product functionality, and degraded levels of performance due to human and software errors, file corruption, and first and third-party capacity constraints associated with the number of customers accessing our products simultaneously. While our past experiences have not materially impacted us, in the future we may face more 19 extensive disruptions, outages, or performance problems. In addition, malicious third parties may also conduct attacks designed to sabotage, impede the performance, or temporarily deny customers access to, our product offerings. If an actual or perceived disruption, outage, performance problem, or attack occurs, it could harm our reputation and the market perception of our product offerings; divert the efforts of our technical and management personnel; impair our ability to operate our business; cause us to lose customer information; or harm our customers’ businesses. Any of these events may increase non-renewals, limit our ability to acquire new customers, result in delayed or withheld payments from customers, or result in claims against us. Undetected defects in our product offerings could harm our reputation or decrease market acceptance of our product offerings, which would harm our business and results of operations. Our product offerings may contain undetected defects, such as errors or bugs. We have experienced such defects in the past in connection with new solutions and solution upgrades, and we expect that such defects may be found from time to time in the future. Despite testing by us, defects may not be found in our product offerings until they are deployed to or used by our customers. In the past, we have discovered software defects in our product offerings after they have been deployed to customers. Defects, disruptions in service, or other performance problems may damage our customers’ business and could hurt our reputation. We may be required, or may choose, for customer relations or other reasons, to expend additional resources to correct actual or perceived defects in our product offerings. If defects are detected or perceived to exist in our product offerings, we may experience negative publicity, loss of competitive position, or diversion of the attention of our key personnel; our customers may delay or withhold payment to us or elect not to renew their subscriptions; other significant customer relations problems may arise; or we may be subject to liability claims for damages. A material liability claim or other occurrence that harms our reputation or decreases market acceptance of our product offerings may harm our business and results of operations. We rely on internet infrastructure, bandwidth providers, data center providers, other third parties, and our own systems for providing solutions to our customers, and any failure or interruption in the services provided by these third parties or our own systems could expose us to litigation and negatively impact our relationships with customers, adversely affecting our brand and our business. Our ability to deliver our solutions is dependent on the development and maintenance of the infrastructure of the Internet and other telecommunications services by third parties. We currently host our technology platform, serve our customers and members, and support our operations primarily using third-party data centers and telecommunications solutions, including cloud infrastructure services such as Amazon Web Services (“AWS”) and Google Cloud. We do not have control over the operations of the facilities of our data center providers, AWS, or Google Cloud. These facilities are vulnerable to damage or interruption from earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, fires, cybersecurity attacks, terrorist attacks, power losses, telecommunications failures, and other events. The occurrence of a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, a decision to close the facilities without adequate notice, or other unanticipated problems could result in lengthy interruptions in our product offerings. The facilities also could be subject to break-ins, computer viruses, sabotage, intentional acts of vandalism, and other misconduct. Any errors, failures, interruptions, or delays experienced in connection with these third-party technologies and information services, or our own systems could negatively impact our relationships with customers and harm our business and could expose us to third-party liabilities. For some of these services, we may not maintain redundant systems or facilities. Our technology platform’s continuing and uninterrupted performance is critical to our success. Members may become dissatisfied by any system failure that interrupts our ability to provide our solutions to them. We may not be able to easily switch our AWS and Google Cloud operations to another cloud service provider if there are disruptions or interference with our use of AWS or Google Cloud. Sustained or repeated system failures would reduce the attractiveness of our technology platform to customers and members and result in contract terminations, thereby reducing revenue. Moreover, negative publicity arising from these types of disruptions could damage our reputation and may adversely impact use of our existing and future offerings. We may not carry sufficient business interruption insurance to compensate us for losses that may occur as a result of any events that cause interruptions in our service. Neither our third-party data and call center providers nor AWS or Google Cloud have an obligation to renew their agreements with us on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. If we are unable to renew our agreements with these providers on commercially reasonable terms, if our agreements with our providers are prematurely terminated, or if in the future we add additional data or call center providers or cloud service providers, we may experience costs or downtime in connection with the transfer to, or the addition of, new providers. If these providers were to increase the cost of their services, we may have to increase the price of our existing and future 20 offerings. Any such increased costs or pricing may have a negative effect on our customer relationships and may adversely affect our business and results of operations. If we fail to effectively maintain and enhance our brands, our business may suffer. We believe that continuing to strengthen our brands will be critical to achieving widespread acceptance of our product offerings and will require continued focus on active marketing efforts. Our brand awareness efforts will require continued investment across our business, particularly as we introduce new solutions that we develop or acquire and as we continue to expand in new markets. Brand promotion activities may not yield increased revenue, and even if they do, any increased revenue may not offset the expenses incurred in building our brand. If we fail to promote and maintain our brands, or if we incur substantial expense in an unsuccessful attempt to promote and maintain our brand, our business could be harmed. Any failure to offer high-quality customer support services could adversely affect our relationships with our customers and our operating results. Our customers depend on our support to assist with their needs. We may be unable to accurately predict our customers’ demand for services or respond quickly enough to accommodate short-term increases in customer or member demand for services. Increased customer demand for our product offerings, without a corresponding increase in productivity or revenue, could increase costs and adversely affect our operating results. Any failure to maintain high-quality customer support, or a market perception that we do not maintain high-quality customer support, could adversely affect our reputation, our ability to sell our product offerings to existing and prospective customers, our relationships with third parties and our ability to form new partnerships, and our business and operating results. Our ability to use our net operating loss to offset future taxable income may be subject to certain limitations. We have incurred substantial losses during our history and do not expect to become profitable in the near future and may never achieve profitability. Under current U.S. federal income tax law, unused losses for the tax year ended December 31, 2017 and prior tax years will carry forward to offset future taxable income, if any, until such unused losses expire, and unused federal losses generated after December 31, 2017 will not expire and may be carried forward indefinitely, but will be only deductible to the extent of 80% of current year taxable income in any given year. Many states have similar laws. In addition, both current and future unused net operating loss (“NOL”) carryforwards and other tax attributes may be subject to limitation under Sections 382 and 383 of the Code, if a corporation undergoes an “ownership change,” generally defined as a greater than 50 percentage point change (by value) in equity ownership by certain stockholders over a rolling three-year period. Additional ownership changes in the future could result in additional limitations on our NOL carryforwards. Consequently, even if we achieve profitability, we may not be able to utilize a material portion of our NOL carryforwards and other tax attributes, which could have a material adverse effect on cash flow and results of operations. We may need to make significant investments in software development and equipment to improve our business. To improve the scalability, security, performance, efficiency, availability, and failover aspects of our product offerings, and to support the expansion of our product offerings and stay competitive, we may need to make significant capital equipment expenditures and also invest in additional software and infrastructure development. If we experience increasing demand in subscriptions, we may not be able to augment our infrastructure quickly enough to accommodate such increasing demand. To reach the goal of supporting the increasing demand, we will need additional capital to make the investments in software development and equipment either through operations or through financing. Additionally, we are continually updating our software, creating expenses for us. We may also need to review or revise our software architecture and user experience as we grow, which may require significant resources and investments. Any of these factors could negatively impact our business and results of operations. Adverse litigation results could have a material adverse impact on our business. We are, have been, and may be involved in regulatory and government investigations and other proceedings, involving competition, intellectual property, data security and privacy, bankruptcy, tax and related compliance, labor and employment, commercial disputes, and other matters. Such claims, suits, actions, regulatory and government investigations, and other proceedings can impose a significant burden on management and employees, could prevent us from offering one or more of our products, services, or features to customers, could require us to change our technology or business practices, or could result in monetary damages, fines, civil or criminal penalties, reputational harm, or other adverse consequences. Adverse outcomes in some or all of these claims may result in significant monetary damages or 21 injunctive relief that could adversely affect our ability to conduct our business. Litigation and other claims are subject to inherent uncertainties and management’s view of the materiality or likely outcome of any such matters may change in the future. A material adverse impact in our consolidated financial statements could occur for the period in which the effect of an unfavorable outcome becomes probable and reasonably estimable. Failure to protect or enforce our intellectual property rights could harm our business and results of operations. To establish and protect our proprietary rights, we rely on a combination of trademarks and trade secrets, including know-how, license agreements, confidentiality procedures, non-disclosure agreements with third parties, employee disclosure and invention assignment agreements, and other contractual rights. As of December 31, 2025, we held three registered trademarks in the United States: “Banzai," "Demio" and "OpenReel." We believe that our intellectual property is an essential asset of our business. If we do not adequately protect our intellectual property, our brand and reputation could be harmed and competitors may be able to use our technologies and erode or negate any competitive advantage we may have, which could harm our business, negatively affect our position in the marketplace, limit our ability to commercialize our technology, and delay or render impossible our achievement of profitability. A failure to protect our intellectual property in a cost-effective and meaningful manner could have a material adverse effect on our ability to compete. We regard the protection of our intellectual property as critical to our success. We strive to protect our intellectual property rights by relying on federal, state, and common law rights and other rights provided under foreign laws. These laws are subject to change at any time and could further restrict our ability to protect or enforce our intellectual property rights. In addition, the existing laws of certain foreign countries in which we operate may not protect our intellectual property rights to the same extent as do the laws of the United States. We generally enter into confidentiality and invention assignment agreements with our employees and contractors, and confidentiality agreements with other parties, with whom we conduct business in order to limit access to, and disclosure and use of, our proprietary information. However, we may not be successful in executing these agreements with every party who has access to our confidential information or contributes to the development of our intellectual property. The agreements that we execute may be breached, and we may not have adequate remedies for any such breach. These contractual arrangements and the other steps we have taken to protect our intellectual property may not prevent the misappropriation of our intellectual property or deter independent development of similar intellectual property by others. Obtaining and maintaining effective intellectual property rights is expensive, including the costs of monitoring unauthorized use of our intellectual property and defending our rights. We make business decisions about when to seek patent protection for a particular technology and when to rely upon trade secret protection, and the approach we select may ultimately prove to be inadequate. We strive to protect certain of our intellectual property rights through filing applications for trademarks, patents, and domain names in a number of jurisdictions, a process that is expensive and may not be successful in all jurisdictions. However, we do not seek such protection on all intellectual property and when we do apply for such protection there is no assurance that any resulting patents or other intellectual property rights will adequately protect such intellectual property, or provide us with any competitive advantages. Moreover, we cannot guarantee that any of our patent or trademark applications will issue or be approved. Even where we have intellectual property rights, if any, they may later be found to be unenforceable or have a limited scope of enforceability. In addition, we may not seek to pursue such protection in every jurisdiction. The United States Patent and Trademark Office also requires compliance with a number of procedural, documentary, fee payment, and other similar provisions during the patent application process and after a patent has issued. Noncompliance with such requirements and processes may result in abandonment or lapse of the patent or patent application, resulting in partial or complete loss of patent rights in the relevant jurisdiction, if previously issued. In such an event, our competitors might be able to develop and commercialize substantially similar and competing applications, which would harm our business. We believe it is important to maintain, protect, and enhance our brands. Accordingly, we pursue the registration of domain names and our trademarks and service marks in the United States. Third parties may challenge our use of our trademarks, oppose our trademark applications, or otherwise impede our efforts to protect our intellectual property in certain jurisdictions. In the event that we are unable to register our trademarks in certain jurisdictions, we could be forced to rebrand our solutions, which would result in loss of brand recognition and could require us to devote resources to advertising and marketing new brands. Our competitors and others could also attempt to capitalize on our brand recognition by using domain names or business names similar to ours. Domain names similar to ours have been registered in the United States and elsewhere. We may be unable to prevent third parties from acquiring or using domain names and other trademarks that infringe on, are similar to, or otherwise decrease the value of, our brands, trademarks, or service marks. 22 We also may incur significant costs in enforcing our trademarks against those who attempt to imitate our brand and other valuable trademarks and service marks. In order to protect our intellectual property rights, we may be required to spend significant resources to monitor and protect these rights. We may not be able to detect infringement or unauthorized use of our intellectual property rights, and defending or enforcing our intellectual property rights, even if successfully detected, prosecuted, enjoined, or remedied, could result in the expenditure of significant financial and managerial resources. Litigation has in the past and may be necessary in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights, protect our proprietary rights, or determine the validity and scope of proprietary rights claimed by others. Any litigation of this nature, regardless of outcome or merit, could result in substantial costs and diversion of management and technical resources, any of which could harm our business. Furthermore, our efforts to enforce our intellectual property rights may be met with defenses, counterclaims, countersuits, and adversarial proceedings such as oppositions, inter partes review, post-grant review, re-examination, or other post-issuance proceedings, that attack the validity and enforceability of our intellectual property rights. An adverse determination of any litigation proceeding could adversely affect our ability to protect the intellectual property associated with our product offerings. Further, because of the substantial amount of discovery required in connection with intellectual property litigation, there is a risk that some of our confidential or sensitive information could be compromised by disclosure in the event of litigation. In addition, during the course of litigation there could be public announcements of the results of hearings, motions, or other interim proceedings or developments. If securities analysts or investors perceive these results to be negative, it could have a substantial adverse effect on the price of Class A Common Stock. If we fail to maintain, protect, and enhance our intellectual property rights, our business may be harmed and the market price of Class A Common Stock could decline. Our competitors also may independently develop similar technology that does not infringe on or misappropriate our intellectual property rights. The laws of some foreign countries may not be as protective of intellectual property rights as those in the United States, and mechanisms for enforcement of intellectual property rights may be inadequate. Effective patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret protection may not be available to us in every country in which our solutions or technology are developed. Further, legal standards relating to the validity, enforceability, and scope of protection of intellectual property rights are uncertain. The laws in the United States and elsewhere change rapidly, and any future changes could adversely affect us and our intellectual property. Our failure to meaningfully protect our intellectual property could result in competitors offering solutions that incorporate our most technologically advanced features, which could seriously reduce demand for existing and future offerings. Third parties may initiate legal proceedings alleging that we are infringing or otherwise violating their intellectual property rights, the outcome of which would be uncertain and could harm our business. Our success depends in part on our ability to develop and commercialize our offerings and use our proprietary technology without infringing the intellectual property or proprietary rights of third parties. Intellectual property disputes can be costly to defend and may cause our business, operating results, and financial condition to suffer. As the MarTech industry in the United States expands and more patents are issued, the risk increases that there may be patents issued to third parties that relate to our offerings and technology of which we are not aware or that we must challenge to continue our operations as currently contemplated. Whether merited or not, we may face allegations that we, our partners, our licensees, or parties indemnified by us have infringed or otherwise violated the patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights of third parties. Such claims may be made by competitors seeking to obtain a competitive advantage or by other parties. Additionally, in recent years, individuals and groups have begun purchasing intellectual property assets for the purpose of making claims of infringement and attempting to extract settlements from companies like ours. We may also face allegations that our employees have misappropriated the intellectual property or proprietary rights of their former employers or other third parties. It may in the future be necessary for us to initiate litigation to defend ourselves in order to determine the scope, enforceability, and validity of third-party intellectual property or proprietary rights, or to establish our respective rights. Regardless of whether claims that we are infringing patents or other intellectual property rights have merit, such claims can be time-consuming, divert management’s attention and financial resources, and can be costly to evaluate and defend. Results of any such litigation are difficult to predict and may require us to stop commercializing or using our solutions or technology, obtain licenses, modify our solutions and technology while we develop non-infringing substitutes, or incur substantial damages, settlement costs, or face a temporary or permanent injunction prohibiting us from marketing or providing the affected solutions. If we require a third-party license, it may not be available on reasonable terms or at all, and we may have to pay substantial royalties, upfront fees, or grant cross-licenses to intellectual property rights for our solutions. We may also have to redesign our solutions so that they do not infringe third-party intellectual property rights, which may not be possible or may require substantial monetary expenditures and time, during which our 23 technology and solutions may not be available for commercialization or use. Even if we have an agreement to indemnify us against such costs, the indemnifying party may be unable to uphold its contractual obligations. If we cannot or do not obtain a third-party license to the infringed technology, license the technology on reasonable terms, or obtain similar technology from another source, our revenue and earnings could be adversely impacted. From time to time, we have been and may be subject to legal proceedings and claims in the ordinary course of business with respect to intellectual property. Some third parties may be able to sustain the costs of complex litigation more effectively than we can because they have substantially greater resources. Even if resolved in our favor, litigation or other legal proceedings relating to intellectual property claims may cause us to incur significant expenses and could distract our technical and management personnel from their normal responsibilities. In addition, there could be public announcements of the results of hearings, motions, or other interim proceedings or developments, and if securities analysts or investors perceive these results to be negative, it could have a material adverse effect on the price of Class A Common Stock. Moreover, any uncertainties resulting from the initiation and continuation of any legal proceedings could have a material adverse effect on our ability to raise the funds necessary to continue our operations. Assertions by third parties that we violate their intellectual property rights could therefore harm our business. Our use of open source software could adversely affect our ability to offer our solutions and subject us to possible litigation. We use open source software in connection with our existing offerings and may continue to use open source software in connection with our future offerings. Some of these licenses contain requirements that we make available source code for modifications or derivative works we create based upon the open source software, and that we license such modifications or derivative works under the terms of a particular open source license or other license granting third-parties certain rights of further use. By the terms of certain open source licenses, we could be required to release the source code of our proprietary software and to make our proprietary software available under open source licenses, if we combine and/or distribute our proprietary software with open source software in certain manners. Although we monitor our use of open source software, we cannot be sure that all open source software is reviewed prior to use in our proprietary software, that our programmers have not incorporated open source software into our proprietary software, or that they will not do so in the future. Additionally, the terms of many open source licenses to which we are subject have not been interpreted by U.S. or foreign courts. There is a risk that open source software licenses could be construed in a manner that imposes unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to provide our existing and future offerings to our customers and members. In addition, the terms of open source software licenses may require us to provide software that we develop using such open source software, to others, including our competitors, on unfavorable license terms. As a result of our current or future use of open source software, we may face claims or litigation, be required to release our proprietary source code, pay damages for breach of contract, re-engineer our technology, discontinue sales in the event re-engineering cannot be accomplished on a timely basis, or take other remedial action that may divert resources away from our development efforts, any of which could harm our business. Risks Related to the Ownership of Our Securities In order to support the growth of our business and repay our indebtedness, we will need to seek capital through new equity or debt financings or incur additional indebtedness under our credit facilities, which sources of additional capital may not be available to us on acceptable terms or at all. Our operations have consumed substantial amounts of cash since inception, and we intend to continue to make significant investments to support our business growth, respond to business challenges or opportunities, develop new applications and solutions, enhance our existing product offerings, enhance our operating infrastructure, and acquire complementary businesses and technologies. For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, our net cash used in operating activities was $15.7 million and $9.6 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, we had $0.3 million and $1.1 million of cash, respectively, which were held for working capital purposes. As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, we had borrowings totaling $10.6 million and $12.4 million, respectively, outstanding under our term loans and promissory notes. Our future capital requirements may be significantly different from previous estimates and will depend on many factors, including the need to: ▪ finance unanticipated working capital requirements; 24 ▪ develop or enhance our technological infrastructure and our existing product offerings; ▪ fund strategic relationships, including joint ventures and co-investments; ▪ fund additional implementation engagements; ▪ respond to competitive pressures; and ▪ acquire complementary businesses, technologies, products, or services. Accordingly, we may need to engage in equity or debt financing to secure additional funds. We entered into the Standby Equity Purchase Agreement ("SEPA") with an entity managed by Yorkville to provide liquidity to us after the Business Combination, but there can be no guarantee that we will be able to affect any advances under the SEPA or to secure additional financing on favorable terms, or at all. To the extent that cash on hand and cash generated from operations are not sufficient to fund capital requirements, or if we do not meet the conditions to sell shares to Yorkville under the SEPA, we may require proceeds from asset sales, additional debt, equity financing, or alternative financing structures. Additional financing may not be available on favorable terms, or at all. If we raise additional funds through further issuances of equity or convertible debt securities, including shares of Class A Common Stock issued in connection with advances under the SEPA or upon exercise of the GEM Warrant, our existing stockholders could suffer significant dilution, and any new equity securities we issue could have rights, preferences, and privileges superior to those of holders of shares of our Class A Common Stock. Any debt financing secured by us in the future could involve additional restrictive covenants relating to our capital-raising activities and other financial and operational matters, which may make it more difficult for us to obtain additional capital and to pursue business opportunities, including potential acquisitions. In addition, during times of economic instability, it has been difficult for many companies to obtain financing in the public markets or to obtain debt financing, and we may not be able to obtain additional financing on commercially reasonable terms, if at all. If we are unable to obtain adequate financing or financing on terms satisfactory to us when we need or want it, it could harm our business. Future sales of shares of Class A Common Stock may depress the stock price. Future sales of shares of Class A Common Stock in the public market, including the resale of shares pursuant to our effective registration statements or pursuant to Rule 144, could depress the stock price. See “Risk Factors – Sales of a substantial number of shares of Class A Common Stock in the public market pursuant to our registration statements could reduce the market price of Class A Common Stock.” below. Issuances of shares of our Class A Common Stock pursuant to any equity lines of credit, the conversion or settlement of amounts outstanding under convertible notes, or the exercise of warrants may result in substantial dilution of our stockholders and may have a negative impact on the market price of our Class A Common Stock. We have outstanding equity lines of credit, convertible notes, and warrants, pursuant to which we may issue shares of our Class A Common Stock from time to time. The issuance of shares of our Class A Common Stock pursuant to any of these securities could be substantial and would increase the number of shares of our Class A Common Stock outstanding, which could result in significant dilution to our existing stockholders and could have a negative impact on the market price of our Class A Common Stock. The extent of any such dilution will depend on the number of shares issued, the price at which such shares are issued, and other factors, many of which are beyond our control. These transactions are described in Note 12 – Debt and Note 15 – Equity to the consolidated financial statements elsewhere in this Report. It is not possible to predict the actual number of shares we will sell under certain of our outstanding equity facilities, or the actual gross proceeds resulting from those sales. Further, we may not have access to the full amount available under such facilities. We have an ATM Agreement and a SEPA, which is similar to an equity line of credit, under which we can sell shares of our Class A Common Stock. Under the SEPA, Yorkville has committed to purchase up to $100 million of Class A Common Stock during the SEPA Commitment Period, subject to the terms and conditions of the SEPA. Under the ATM Agreement, we may sell shares of our Class A Common Stock up to an aggregate market value of $7,525,033, subject to the terms and conditions of the ATM Agreement. While we generally have the right to control the timing and amount of any sales of shares of Class A Common Stock under the SEPA and the ATM Agreement, there are various terms and conditions that may limit our ability to utilize these agreements when needed. For example, under the SEPA, we may only sell shares to Yorkville if there is an effective Resale 25 Registration Statement filed with the SEC for the resale under the Securities Act, and if there are Yorkville promissory notes outstanding, Yorkville may require us to issue shares of our Class A Common Stock in satisfaction of amounts outstanding thereunder. Future sales of Class A Common Stock under the SEPA and under the ATM Agreement, will depend upon market conditions and other factors to be determined by us, and we may ultimately elect to utilize less than the full amounts available under the respective programs. In addition, because the purchase price per share for shares that we may elect to sell under the SEPA or the ATM Agreement fluctuates based on the market price of our Class A Common Stock, it is not possible for us to predict the number of shares we will ultimately sell or the aggregate gross proceeds from such sales, and the gross proceeds we receive may be substantially less than the amounts available to us under the SEPA or the ATM Agreement. Our stock is subject to requirements to remain listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market, including a minimum bid price requirement and stockholders’ equity requirement, and may be delisted if it does not maintain or regain, as applicable, compliance with those requirements. Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 5550(a)(2) requires a minimum bid price of $1.00 per share for primary equity securities listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market (the “Minimum Bid Price Requirement”). To regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement, we effected the September Reverse Stock Split on September 19, 2024 and subsequently we effected the July Reverse Stock Split on July 8, 2025. Following the July Reverse Stock Split, the bid price of our Class A Common Stock surpassed $1.00 per share. While Nasdaq rules do not impose a specific limit on the number of times a listed company may effect a reverse stock split to maintain or regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement, Nasdaq has stated that a series of reverse stock splits may undermine investor confidence in securities listed on Nasdaq. In addition, Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A)(iv) states that if any listed company that fails to meet the Minimum Bid Price Requirement after effecting one or more reverse stock splits over the prior two-year period with a cumulative ratio of 250 shares or more to one, then the company is not eligible for a Minimum Bid Price Requirement compliance period of 180 days. As a result, if we default on this requirement again, since we effected the 1-for-50 September Reverse Stock Split and the 1-for-10 July Reverse Split, Nasdaq would begin the process of delisting our Class A Common Stock without providing a Minimum Bid Price Requirement compliance period. However, we could still be eligible to request a hearing before the Nasdaq Panel to present its plan for regaining and sustaining compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement. If our Class A Common Stock ceases to be listed for trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market, we expect that our Class A Common Stock would be traded on one of the three tiered marketplaces of the OTC Markets Group. If Nasdaq were to delist our Class A Common Stock, it would be more difficult for our stockholders to dispose of our Class A Common Stock and more difficult to obtain accurate price quotations on our Class A Common Stock. Our ability to issue additional securities for financing or other purposes, or otherwise to arrange for any financing we may need in the future, may also be materially and adversely affected if our Class A Common Stock or warrants are not listed on a national securities exchange. Nasdaq may delist our securities from trading on its exchange, which could limit investors' ability to make transactions in our securities and subject us to additional trading restrictions. Previously, we were not in compliance with certain Nasdaq listing rules and had a hearing before The Nasdaq Panel, on September 19, 2024. Following that hearing, the Panel determined to phase our Class A Common Stock down from The Nasdaq Global Market to The Nasdaq Capital Market. Since October 31, 2024, our Class A Common Stock trades on The Nasdaq Capital Market, under the same symbol, BNZI. Later, we fell out of compliance with Listing Rule 5450(b)(2)(A) (the (“Market Value of Listed Securities”), but the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC, Office of the General Counsel ultimately determined we demonstrated compliance therewith. There can be no assurance that we will be able to maintain compliance with Nasdaq listing standards. If, for any reason, we fall out of compliance again or Nasdaq delists our securities from trading on its exchange and we are not able to list our securities on another national securities exchange, we expect our securities could be quoted on an over-the-counter market. If this were to occur, we could face significant material adverse consequences, including: ▪ a limited availability of market quotations for our securities; ▪ reduced liquidity for our securities; 26 ▪ a decrease in the number of institutional and general investors that will consider investing in our Class A Common Stock; ▪ a determination that our Class A Common Stock is a “penny stock” which will require brokers trading in our Class A Common Stock to adhere to more stringent rules and possibly result in a reduced level of trading activity in the secondary trading market for our securities; ▪ a limited amount of news and analyst coverage; ▪ a reduction in the number of market makers for our Class A Common stock and the number of broker-dealers willing to execute trades in shares of our Class A Common Stock; ▪ a decreased ability to issue additional securities or obtain additional financing in the future; and ▪ being subject to regulation in each state in which we offer our securities. If our Class A Common Stock ceases to be listed on a national securities exchange it will become subject to the so-called “penny stock” rules that impose restrictive sales practice requirements. If we are unable to maintain the listing of our Class A Common Stock on The Nasdaq Capital Market or another national securities exchange, our Class A Common Stock could become subject to the so-called “penny stock” rules if the shares have a market value of less than $5.00 per share. The SEC has adopted regulations that define a penny stock to include any stock that has a market price of less than $5.00 per share, subject to certain exceptions, including an exception for stock traded on a national securities exchange. The SEC regulations impose restrictive sales practice requirements on broker-dealers who sell penny stocks to persons other than established customers and accredited investors. For transactions covered by this rule, the broker-dealer must make a special suitability determination for the purchaser and must have received the purchaser’s written consent to the transaction prior to sale. This means that if we are unable maintain the listing of our Class A Common Stock on a national securities exchange, the ability of stockholders to sell their common stock in the secondary market could be adversely affected. If a transaction involving a penny stock is not exempt from the SEC’s rule, a broker-dealer must deliver a disclosure schedule relating to the penny stock market to each investor prior to a transaction. The broker-dealer also must disclose the commissions payable to both the broker-dealer and its registered representative, current quotations for the penny stock, and, if the broker-dealer is the sole market-maker, the broker-dealer must disclose this fact and the broker-dealer’s presumed control over the market. Finally, monthly statements must be sent disclosing recent price information for the penny stock held in the customer’s account and information on the limited market in penny stocks. Our dual class common stock structure has the effect of concentrating significant voting power with our Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Joseph Davy, which may limit an investor’s ability to influence the outcome of important transactions, including a change in control. Shares of our Class B Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class B Common Stock,” together with the Class A Common Stock, the “Common Stock”), have 10 votes per share, while shares of our Class A Common Stock have one vote per share. Mr. Davy, who is our Chief Executive Officer and is Legacy Banzai’s Co-Founder, including his affiliates and permitted transferees, holds all of the issued and outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock. Accordingly, Mr. Davy held, directly or indirectly, approximately 26.5% of our outstanding voting power as of March 27, 2026 and therefore may be able to significantly influence matters submitted to our stockholders for approval, including the election of directors, amendments of our organizational documents and any merger, consolidation, sale of all or substantially all of our assets or other major corporate transactions. Mr. Davy may have interests that differ from yours and may vote in a way with which you disagree, and which may be adverse to your interests. This significant concentration of voting power may have the effect of delaying, preventing, or deterring a change in control, could deprive our stockholders of an opportunity to receive a premium for their capital stock as part of a sale, and might ultimately affect the market price of Class A Common Stock. The market price of our Class A Common Stock has been, and is likely to continue to be, highly volatile, and you may lose some or all of your investment. The market price of our Class A Common Stock has fluctuated, and may continue to fluctuate, significantly due to a number of factors, some of which may be beyond our control, including those factors discussed in this “Risk Factors” section and many others, such as: 27 ▪ actual or anticipated fluctuations in our financial condition and operating results, including fluctuations in its quarterly and annual results; ▪ developments involving our competitors; ▪ changes in laws and regulations affecting our business; ▪ variations in our operating performance and the performance of its competitors in general; ▪ the public’s reaction to our press releases, its other public announcements and its filings with the SEC; ▪ additions and departures of key personnel; ▪ announcements of significant acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures or capital commitments by us or our competitors; ▪ our failure to meet the estimates and projections of the investment community or that it may otherwise provide to the public; ▪ publication of research reports about us or our industry, or positive or negative recommendations or withdrawal of research coverage by securities analysts; ▪ changes in the market valuations of similar companies; ▪ overall performance of the equity markets; ▪ sales of Class A Common Stock by us or our stockholders in the future; ▪ trading volume of Class A Common Stock; ▪ significant lawsuits, including stockholder litigation; ▪ failure to comply with the requirements of Nasdaq; ▪ the impact of any natural disasters, pandemics, epidemics, or other public health emergencies; ▪ general economic, industry and market conditions and other events or factors, many of which are beyond our control; and ▪ changes in accounting standards, policies, guidelines, interpretations, or principles. Volatility in the price of our Class A Common Stock could subject us to securities class action litigation. In the past, securities class action litigation has often been brought against a company following a decline in the market price of its securities. If we face such litigation, it could result in substantial costs and a diversion of management’s attention and resources, which could harm our business. If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or reports about us, or publish negative reports, then our stock price and trading volume could decline. The trading market for our Class A Common Stock will depend, in part, on the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us. We do not have any control over these analysts. If our financial performance fails to meet analyst estimates or one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrade our Class A Common Stock or change their opinion, then the market price of our Class A Common Stock would likely decline. If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of us or fail to regularly publish reports on us, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which could cause the market price of our Class A Common Stock or trading volume to decline. We have incurred and will continue to incur increased costs and demands upon management as a result of complying with the laws and regulations affecting public companies, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations, and financial condition. As a public company, we are subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the listing standards of Nasdaq, and other applicable securities rules and regulations. We expect that the requirements of these rules and regulations will continue to increase our legal, accounting, and financial compliance costs, make some activities more difficult, time-consuming, and costly, and place significant strain on our personnel, systems and resources. For example, the Exchange Act requires, among other things, that we file annual, quarterly, and current reports with respect to our business and results of operations. As a result of the complexity involved in complying with the rules and regulations applicable to public 28 companies, our management’s attention may be diverted from other business concerns, which could harm our business, results of operations, and financial condition. Although we have already hired additional employees and engaged outside consultants to assist us in complying with these requirements, we will need to hire more employees in the future or may need to engage additional outside consultants, which will increase our operating expenses. In addition, changing laws, regulations, and standards relating to corporate governance and public disclosure are creating uncertainty for public companies, increasing legal and financial compliance costs, and making some activities more time-consuming. These laws, regulations, and standards are subject to varying interpretations, in many cases due to their lack of specificity, and, as a result, their application in practice may evolve over time as new guidance is provided by regulatory and governing bodies. These factors could result in continuing uncertainty regarding compliance matters and higher costs necessitated by ongoing revisions to disclosure and governance practices. We intend to invest substantial resources to comply with evolving laws, regulations, and standards, and this investment may result in increased general and administrative expenses and a diversion of management’s time and attention from business operations to compliance activities. If our efforts to comply with new laws, regulations, and standards differ from the activities intended by regulatory or governing bodies due to ambiguities related to their application and practice, regulatory authorities may initiate legal proceedings against us, and our business may be harmed. We also expect that being a public company and these new rules and regulations will make it more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance, and we may be required to accept reduced coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain coverage. These factors could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified members of our Board, particularly to serve on our audit committee and compensation committee, and qualified executive officers. As a result of disclosure of information in this Report and in our other public filings, our business and financial condition will become more visible, which may result in pricing pressure from customers or an increased risk of threatened or actual litigation, including by competitors and other third parties. If such claims are successful, our business and results of operations could be harmed, and even if the claims do not result in litigation or are resolved in our favor, these claims, and the time and resources necessary to resolve them, could divert the resources of its management and harm our business. We have identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting in the past. If we are unable to remediate these material weaknesses, or if we identify additional material weaknesses in the future or otherwise fail to maintain an effective system of internal controls, we may not be able to accurately or timely report our financial condition or results of operations, which may adversely affect our business and stock price. Prior to the Closing of the Business Combination, Legacy Banzai was a private company with limited accounting personnel to adequately execute its accounting processes and limited supervisory resources with which to address its internal control over financial reporting. In connection with the audit of Legacy Banzai’s financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2022 and continuing through the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company identified material weaknesses in its internal control over financial reporting; the Company has also identified material weaknesses in 2025. A material weakness is a deficiency or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of Legacy Banzai’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. Legacy Banzai did not design or maintain an effective control environment under the rules and regulations of the SEC. Accordingly and specifically, (i) management does not have appropriate IT general controls in place over change management, user access, cybersecurity, and reviews of service organizations, (ii) management does not have suitable entity level controls in place in accordance with the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) (“COSO”), including reviews of the financial statements, and certain entity level controls were not performed by management, and (iii) pervasive transactional and account level reconciliations and analyses are not performed, or not performed with sufficient detail to prevent or detect a material weakness. These issues related to management's controls over the review of complex significant transactions, complex debt and equity, income and sales taxes, and revenue recognition. We have taken certain steps, such as recruiting additional personnel, in addition to utilizing third-party consultants and specialists, to supplement our internal resources, to enhance our internal control environment and plans to take additional steps to remediate the material weaknesses. Although we plan to complete this remediation process as quickly as possible, we cannot at this time estimate how long it will take. We cannot assure you that the measures taken to date and to be taken in the future, will be sufficient to remediate the control deficiencies that led to Legacy Banzai’s material weakness in internal control over financial reporting or that it will prevent or avoid potential future material weaknesses. If the steps we take do not correct the material weakness in a timely manner, we will be unable to conclude that we maintain effective internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, there could continue to be a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our financial statements would not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. 29 Any failure to remediate existing material weaknesses, or to develop or maintain effective controls or any difficulties encountered in their implementation or improvement could harm our results of operations or cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations and may result in a restatement of our financial statements for prior periods. Any failure to implement and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting also could adversely affect the results of periodic management evaluations and annual independent registered public accounting firm attestation reports regarding the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting that we will eventually be required to include in our periodic reports that will be filed with the SEC. Ineffective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting could also cause investors to lose confidence in our reported financial and other information, which would likely have a negative effect on the trading price of our Class A Common Stock. In addition, if we are unable to continue to meet these requirements, we may not be able to remain listed on Nasdaq. We will not be required to comply with the SEC rules that implement Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”) and will therefore not be required to make a formal assessment of the effectiveness of control over financial reporting for that purpose. As a public company, we will be required to provide an annual management report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting commencing with our second annual report on Form 10-K. Our independent registered public accounting firm will not be required to formally attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting until after we are no longer a “smaller reporting company” and a “non-accelerated filer” as defined in Item 10(f)(1) of Regulation S-K, and Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act, respectively. At such time, our independent registered public accounting firm may issue a report that is adverse in the event it is not satisfied with the level at which our internal control over financial reporting is documented, designed, or operating. Any failure to maintain effective disclosure controls and internal control over financial reporting could have an adverse effect on our business and results of operations and could cause a decline in the price of our Class A Common Stock. Our executive officers and directors collectively beneficially own approximately 27.1% of the voting power of our outstanding Common Stock and may have significant influence over the outcome of important transactions, including a change in control. Our executive officers and directors, in the aggregate, beneficially own approximately 27.1% of the voting power of our outstanding shares of Common Stock as of the date of this Report, based on the number of shares outstanding as of March 27, 2026. As a result, these stockholders, if acting together, may be able to significantly influence matters requiring approval by our stockholders, including the election of directors and the approval of mergers, acquisitions, or other extraordinary transactions. They may also have interests that differ from yours and may vote in a way with which you disagree, and which may be adverse to your interests. This significant ownership position may have the effect of delaying, preventing, or deterring a change in control of the Company, could deprive our stockholders of an opportunity to receive a premium for their Class A Common Stock as part of the sale of the Company, and might ultimately affect the market price of our Class A Common Stock. It is not currently anticipated that we will pay dividends on shares of our Class A Common Stock, and, consequently, your ability to achieve a return on your investment will depend on appreciation, if any, in the market price of Class A Common Stock. It is currently anticipated that we will retain future earnings for the development, operation, and expansion of the business, and we do not anticipate declaring or paying any cash dividends for the foreseeable future. Any return to our stockholders will therefore be limited to the appreciation of their shares of Class A Common Stock. There is no guarantee that shares of Class A Common Stock will appreciate in value or even maintain the price at which stockholders have purchased their shares of Class A Common Stock. The DGCL and our Charter and Bylaws contain certain provisions, including anti-takeover provisions, that limit the ability of stockholders to take certain actions and could delay or discourage takeover attempts that stockholders may consider favorable. Our Charter, our Bylaws and the DGCL contain provisions that could have the effect of rendering more difficult, delaying, or preventing an acquisition deemed undesirable by the Board and therefore depress the trading price of our Class A Common Stock. These provisions could also make it difficult for stockholders to take certain actions, including electing directors who are not nominated by the current members of the Board or taking other corporate actions, including effecting changes in our management. Among other things, our Charter and/or Bylaws include provisions regarding: ▪ that shares of our Class B Common Stock are entitled to 10 votes per share; 30 ▪ the ability of the Board to issue shares of Preferred Stock, $0.0001 par value per share (“Preferred Stock”), including “blank check” preferred stock and to determine the price and other terms of those shares, including preferences and voting rights, without stockholder approval, which could be used to significantly dilute the ownership of a hostile acquirer; ▪ the ability of our stockholders to take action by written consent in lieu of a meeting; ▪ the limitation of the liability of, and the indemnification of, our directors and officers; ▪ the requirement that a special meeting of stockholders may be called only by a majority of the entire Board, the chairperson of the Board or the Chief Executive Officer which could delay the ability of stockholders to force consideration of a proposal or to take action, including the removal of directors; ▪ controlling the procedures for the conduct and scheduling of Board and stockholder meetings; ▪ the ability of the Board to amend the Bylaws, which may allow the Board to take additional actions to prevent an unsolicited takeover and inhibit the ability of an acquirer to amend the Bylaws to facilitate an unsolicited takeover attempt; and ▪ advance notice procedures with which stockholders must comply to nominate candidates to the Board or to propose matters to be acted upon at a stockholders’ meeting, which could preclude stockholders from bringing matters before annual or special meetings of stockholders and delay changes in the Board, and also may discourage or deter a potential acquirer from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect the acquirer’s own slate of directors or otherwise attempting to obtain control of us. Likewise, because our principal executive offices are located in Washington, the anti-takeover provisions of the Washington Business Corporation Act (the “WBCA”) may apply to us under certain circumstances now or in the future. These provisions prohibit a “target corporation” from engaging in any of a broad range of business combinations with any stockholder constituting an “acquiring person” for a period of five years following the date on which the stockholder became an “acquiring person.” These provisions, alone or together, could delay or prevent hostile takeovers and changes in control or changes in the Board or our management. In addition, our Charter includes a provision substantially similar to Section 203 of the DGCL, which may prohibit certain stockholders holding 15% or more of our outstanding capital stock from engaging in certain business combinations with us for a specified period of time. Our Charter designates the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware and, to the extent enforceable, the federal district courts of the United States of America as the exclusive forums for substantially all disputes between us and our stockholders, which restricts our stockholders’ ability to choose the judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, or employees. Our Charter provides that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware is the exclusive forum for the following types of claims or causes of action under Delaware statutory or common law: any derivative claims or causes of action brought on our behalf; any claims or causes of action asserting a breach of a fiduciary duty; any action asserting a claim against us arising pursuant to the DGCL, our Charter, or our Bylaws; or any action asserting a claim against us that is governed by the internal affairs doctrine. In addition, our Charter provides that the federal district courts of the United States of America will be the exclusive forum for resolving any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act. These choice of forum provisions will not apply to suits brought to enforce a duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or any other claim for which the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction. Such provisions are intended to benefit and may be enforced by us and our officers and directors, employees and agents. These provisions may benefit us by providing increased consistency in the application of Delaware law and federal securities laws by chancellors and judges, as applicable, particularly experienced in resolving corporate disputes, efficient administration of cases on a more expedited schedule relative to other forums and protection against the burdens of multi-forum litigation. These choice of forum provisions may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers, or other employees, which may discourage lawsuits with respect to such claims or make such lawsuits more costly for stockholders, although our stockholders will not be deemed to have waived our compliance with federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder. While the Delaware courts have determined that such choice of forum provisions are facially valid, a stockholder may nevertheless seek to bring a claim in a venue other than those designated in the exclusive forum provisions, and there can be no assurance 31 that such provisions will be enforced by a court in those other jurisdictions. If a court were to find either choice of forum provisions contained in our Charter to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such action in other jurisdictions. We are a smaller reporting company. We cannot be certain whether the reduced disclosure requirements applicable to smaller reporting companies will make our common stock less attractive to investors or otherwise limit our ability to raise additional funds. We are a “smaller reporting company” under applicable securities regulations. A smaller reporting company is a company that, as of the last business day of its most recently completed fiscal quarter, has an aggregate market value of the company’s voting stock held by non-affiliates, or public float, of less than $250 million, or has annual revenues less than $100 million and either no public float or public float less than $750 million. SEC rules provide that companies with a non-affiliate public float of less than $75 million may only sell shares under a Form S-3 shelf registration statement, during any 12-month period, in an amount less than or equal to one-third of the public float. If we do not meet this public float requirement, any offering by us under a Form S-3 will be limited to raising an aggregate of one-third of our public float in any 12-month period. In addition, a smaller reporting company is able to provide simplified executive compensation disclosures in its filings, is exempt from the provisions of Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requiring that an independent registered public accounting firm provide an attestation report on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting if its public float is less than $70 million, and has certain other reduced disclosure obligations in their SEC filings, including, among other things, only being required to provide two years of audited financial statements in annual reports. Reduced disclosure in our SEC filings due to our status as a smaller reporting company may make it harder for investors to analyze its results of operations and financial prospects. If our estimates or judgments relating to our critical accounting policies prove to be incorrect or financial reporting standards or interpretations change, our results of operations could be adversely affected. The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”) requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. We will base our estimates on historical experience, known trends and events, and various other factors that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, as provided in the section titled “ Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations-Critical Accounting Estimates .” The results of these estimates form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Significant assumptions and estimates used in preparing our financial statements include, but are not limited to, estimates of impairment on goodwill, recognition and measurement of convertible notes, warrants and SAFEs, including the valuation of the bifurcated embedded derivatives liabilities, and recognition and measurement of stock-based compensation. Our results of operations may be adversely affected if our assumptions change or if actual circumstances differ from those in our assumptions, which could cause our results of operations to fall below the expectations of securities analysts and investors, resulting in a decline in the trading price of our Class A Common Stock. Additionally, we will regularly monitor our compliance with applicable financial reporting standards and review new pronouncements and drafts thereof that are relevant to us. As a result of new standards, changes to existing standards, and changes in their interpretation, we might be required to change our accounting policies, alter our operational policies, and implement new or enhance existing systems so that they reflect new or amended financial reporting standards, or we may be required to restate our published financial statements. Such changes to existing standards or changes in their interpretation may have an adverse effect on our reputation, business, financial position, and profit. We may issue additional shares of Common Stock or Preferred Stock, including under our equity incentive plan. Any such issuances would dilute the interest of our stockholders and likely present other risks. We may issue a substantial number of additional shares of Common Stock or Preferred Stock, including under our 2023 equity incentive plan. Any such issuances of additional shares of Common Stock or Preferred Stock: ▪ may significantly dilute the equity interests of our investors; ▪ may subordinate the rights of holders of Common Stock if preferred stock is issued with rights senior to those afforded our Common Stock; ▪ could cause a change in control if a substantial number of shares of our Common Stock are issued, which may affect, among other things, our ability to use our net operating loss carry forwards, if any, and could result in the resignation or removal of our present officers and directors; and 32 ▪ may adversely affect prevailing market prices for our Common Stock and/or Public Warrants. Sales of a substantial number of shares of Class A Common Stock in the public market pursuant to our registration statements could reduce the market price of Class A Common Stock. Sales of a substantial number of shares of Class A Common Stock in the public market pursuant to our resale registration statements (collectively, the “Resale Registration Statements”) could occur at any time. These sales, or the perception in the market that the holders of a large number of shares of Class A Common Stock intend to sell shares, could reduce the market price of Class A Common Stock. In particular, until such time as it is no longer effective, the Resale Registration Statements permit the resale of shares held by Mr. Joseph Davy, including shares of both Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock, subject, in each case, to the applicable lock-up periods. The resale, or expected or potential resale, of a substantial number of shares of our Class A Common Stock in the public market could adversely affect the market price for Class A Common Stock and make it more difficult for you to sell your holdings at times and prices that you determine are appropriate. Furthermore, we expect that, because there is a large number of shares registered pursuant to the Resale Registration Statements, the selling securityholders will continue to offer the securities covered thereby pursuant to the Resale Registration Statements or pursuant to Rule 144 for a significant period of time, the precise duration of which cannot be predicted. Accordingly, the adverse market and price pressures resulting from an offering pursuant to any of our registration statements may continue for an extended period of time. We may also file additional registration statements in connection with the possible sale of other securities. Holders of convertible promissory notes have certain rights upon an event of default under their respective agreements that could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations and could require us to curtail or cease our operations. In the past, we have issued, and in the future we may issue, convertible promissory notes or other convertible debt instruments. These instruments may include terms that provide the holders with certain rights and remedies upon an event of default, which could require us to make cash payments, issue shares of our Class A Common Stock, take other actions that could be costly or restrictive, or otherwise harm our business, financial condition and results of operations. For example, we issued senior secured convertible notes on June 27, 2025, August 19, 2025, and October 8, 2025 for an aggregate original principal amount of $6.9 million. Events of default under convertible promissory notes and similar instruments are defined in the applicable transaction documents, and may include, among other things, failures to pay amounts when due (subject to any applicable cure periods), failures to meet certain filing, reporting, or registration-related deadlines, defaults on other indebtedness above specified thresholds, certain bankruptcy- or insolvency-related events, failures to timely deliver shares upon conversion, and suspensions of trading or listing of our Class A Common Stock for specified periods, among other events. If an event of default were to occur under any such instruments, holders may have rights that could include requiring redemption or repayment (potentially at a premium), exercising other contractual remedies, and/or converting amounts due into shares of our Class A Common Stock on terms that may be unfavorable to us. The exercise of any of the above rights upon an event of default could substantially harm our financial condition and force us to curtail or even cease our operations. See Note 12 – Debt to the consolidated financial statements and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis — Liquidity and Capital Resources” for additional information regarding these notes and the related arrangements. The exclusive forum clause set forth in the Warrant Agreement may have the effect of limiting an investor’s rights to bring legal action and could limit the investor’s ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum. The Warrant Agreement, dated December 22, 2020, with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as warrant agent (the “Warrant Agreement”), provides that (i) any action, proceeding or claim against us arising out of or relating in any way to the Warrant Agreement will be brought and enforced in the courts of the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and (ii) we irrevocably submit to such jurisdiction, which jurisdiction will be exclusive. We have waived or will waive any objection to such exclusive jurisdiction and that such courts represent an inconvenient forum. However, there is uncertainty as to whether a court would enforce these provisions and investors cannot waive compliance with the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder. Section 22 of the Securities Act creates concurrent jurisdiction for state and federal courts over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, these provisions of the Warrant Agreement will not apply to suits brought to enforce any liability or duty created by the Exchange Act or any other claim for which the federal district courts of the United 33 States of America are the sole and exclusive forum. Section 27 of the Exchange Act creates exclusive federal jurisdiction over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in any of the Public Warrants shall be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to the forum provisions in the Warrant Agreement. If any action, the subject matter of which is within the scope of the forum provisions of the Warrant Agreement, is filed in a court other than a court of the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (a “foreign action”) in the name of any holder of the Public Warrants, such holder shall be deemed to have consented to: (x) the personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located within the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in connection with any action brought in any such court to enforce the forum provisions (an “enforcement action”), and (y) having service of process made upon such warrant holder in any such enforcement action by service upon such warrant holder’s counsel in the foreign action as agent for such warrant holder. This choice-of-forum provision may limit a warrant holder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable, which may discourage such lawsuits. Alternatively, if a court were to find this provision of the Warrant Agreement inapplicable or unenforceable with respect to one or more of the specified types of actions or proceedings, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such matters in other jurisdictions, which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations and result in a diversion of the time and resources of our management and our Board. Outstanding warrants to purchase shares of our Class A Common Stock (the “Warrants”) may never be in the money and they may expire worthless and therefore we may not receive cash proceeds from the exercise of the Warrants. The terms of the Warrants may be amended in a manner adverse to a holder if holders of at least 50% of the then outstanding applicable Warrants approve of such amendment. As of the date of this Report, we have outstanding warrants, including public warrants originally issued in 7GC’s initial public offering (the "Public Warrants") and warrants issued to other investors in connection with various financings that the Company has completed (collectively, the “Warrants”). The exercise of Warrants, and any proceeds we may receive from their exercise, are highly dependent on the price of our Class A Common Stock and the spread between the exercise price of the Warrant and the price of our Class A Common Stock at the time of exercise. There can be no assurance that our Warrants will be in the money prior to their expiration. Our Public Warrants under certain conditions, as described in the Warrant Agreement, are redeemable by us at a price of $0.01 per warrant. The GEM Warrant is not redeemable and, like some of the other outstanding Warrants, is exercisable on a cash or cashless basis; if such Warrants are exercised on a “cashless basis,” whether or not they are in the money, we will not receive cash for such exercise. As such, it is possible that we may never generate any cash proceeds from the exercise of our Warrants. The Warrant Agreement for the Public Warrants permits amendments to the terms of the Public Warrants in certain circumstances. In particular, subject to the terms of the Warrant Agreement, amendments that affect the interests of holders of the Public Warrants may be approved by holders of at least 50% of the then outstanding Public Warrants, which could allow the Public Warrants to be amended in a manner adverse to a holder, including by increasing the exercise price, shortening the exercise period, or decreasing the number of shares purchasable upon exercise of a Public Warrant. See Note 13 – Warrant Liabilities to the consolidated financial statements for additional information regarding the Warrants, including the number of shares underlying the Warrants, exercise prices and expiration dates. We may redeem your unexpired Public Warrants prior to their exercise at a time that is disadvantageous to you, thereby making your Public Warrants worthless. We have the ability to redeem the outstanding Public Warrants at any time after they become exercisable and prior to their expiration, at a price of $0.01 per warrant if, among other things, the last reported sale price of the underlying Class A Common Stock for any 20 trading days within a 30-trading day period ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which the Company sends the notice of redemption to the warrant holders equals or exceeds $18.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, rights issuances, subdivisions, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like). Redemption of the outstanding Public Warrants as described above could force you to: (i) exercise your warrants and pay the exercise price therefor at a time when it may be disadvantageous for you to do so; (ii) sell your warrants at the then-current market price when you might otherwise wish to hold your warrants; or (iii) accept the nominal redemption price 34 which, at the time the outstanding warrants are called for redemption, the Company expects would be substantially less than the market value of your warrants. Shares of Class A Common Stock have never traded above $18.00 per share. We have no obligation to notify holders of the Public Warrants that they have become eligible for redemption. However, pursuant to the Warrant Agreement, in the event we decide to redeem the Public Warrants, we are required to mail notice of such redemption to the registered warrant holders not less than 30 days prior to the redemption date. The warrants may be exercised any time after notice of redemption is given and prior to the redemption date. Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments. None. Item 1C. Cybersecurity. We maintain a cyber risk management program designed to identify, assess, manage, mitigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats. The underlying processes and controls of our cyber risk management program incorporate recognized best practices and standards for cybersecurity and information technology, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and processes and controls supporting requirements with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The NIST CSF offers a thorough set of guidelines and best practices to help establish a strong cybersecurity posture. Utilizing NIST CSF enables us to systemically identify, assess, and manage cybersecurity risks most relevant and impactful to our business operations. It is important to note that using the NIST CSF as a guide does not imply our cybersecurity program meets any specific technical standards or requirements. We have an annual assessment performed by a third-party specialist of the cyber risk management program against the NIST CSF. The annual risk assessment identifies, quantifies, and categorizes material cyber risks. In addition, we, in conjunction with the third-party cyber risk management specialists, develop a Risk Mitigation Plan to mitigate such risks, and where necessary, remediate potential vulnerabilities identified through the annual assessment process. We maintain policies over areas such as information security, incident management, business continuity, IT change and configuration management, acceptable use and access on/offboarding to help govern the processes put in place by management designed to protect our IT assets, data, and services from threats and vulnerabilities. We partner with industry recognized cybersecurity providers leveraging third-party technology and expertise. We engage with these partners to monitor and maintain the performance and effectiveness of IT assets, data, and services that are deployed in our IT environment. Cybersecurity partners, including assessors, consultants, advisors and other third-party service providers, are a key part of our cybersecurity risk management strategy and infrastructure. We partner with industry recognized cybersecurity providers leveraging third-party technology and expertise and engage with these partners to monitor and maintain the performance and effectiveness of IT assets, data and services. The cybersecurity partners provide services including, but not limited to, configuration management, vulnerability scans, network protection and monitoring, remote monitoring and management, user activity monitoring, data backups management, infrastructure maintenance, cybersecurity strategy, and cyber risk advisory, assessment, and remediation. We have implemented third-party risk management processes to manage the risks associated with reliance on vendors, critical service providers, and other third-parties that may lead to a service disruption or an adverse cybersecurity incident. This includes vendor due diligence prior to onboarding, a review of System and Organization Control (SOC) reports on an annual basis , regular review of vendor contracts, and compliance with service level agreements (SLAs). In evaluating the risks identified as a result of the annual cybersecurity assessment process, our cybersecurity partners assist the Company to assess the likelihood, severity, and impact of relevant risks, including the impact on employees, stakeholders, and vendors. These risks are prioritized and monitored by the cybersecurity partners and management of the Company. Our cybersecurity program includes an incident response plan that includes all relevant and critical members of management and third-party service providers alike. The team is responsible for assessing and managing cybersecurity 35 incident response processes, response times, and communication plans in the event corrective actions and mitigation procedures are required to isolate and eradicate an incident. Our management team, in conjunction with the Chief Technology Officer and cybersecurity service providers are responsible for oversight and administration of our cyber risk management program, and for informing senior management and other relevant stakeholders regarding the prevention, detection, mitigation, and remediation of cybersecurity incidents. The management team has prior experience selecting, deploying, and overseeing cybersecurity technologies, initiatives, and processes directly or via selection of strategic third-party partners. Management relies on threat intelligence as well as other information obtained from governmental, public or private sources, including external consultants engaged in strategic cyber risk management, advisory and decision making. Our Audit Committee oversees our cybersecurity risk exposures and the steps taken by management to monitor and mitigate cybersecurity risks. The cybersecurity stakeholders, including member(s) of management assigned with cybersecurity oversight responsibility and/or third-party consultants providing cyber risk services brief the Audit Committee on cyber threats and vulnerabilities identified through the risk management process, the effectiveness of our cyber risk management program, and the emerging threat landscape and new cyber risks on at least an annual basis. This includes updates on our processes to prevent, detect, and mitigate cybersecurity incidents. In addition, cybersecurity risks are reviewed by our Board at least annually, as part of the Company’s corporate risk oversight processes. We face risks from cybersecurity threats that could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows or reputation. We acknowledge that the risk of a cyber incident is prevalent in the current threat landscape and that a future cyber incident may occur in the normal course of our business. However, prior cybersecurity incidents have not had a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows. We proactively seek to detect and investigate unauthorized attempts and attacks against our IT assets, data, and services, and to prevent their occurrence and recurrence where practical through changes or updates to our internal processes and tools and changes or updates to our service delivery; however, potential vulnerabilities to known or unknown threats will remain. Further, there is increasing regulation regarding responses to cybersecurity incidents, including reporting to regulators, investors, and additional stakeholders, which could subject us to additional liability and reputational harm. In response to such risks, we have implemented initiatives such as the cybersecurity risk assessment process and developed an incident response plan. See Item 1A. "Risk Factors" for more information on our cybersecurity risks. Item 2. Properties. We lease office space for our principal executive office located at 435 Ericksen Ave NE, Suite 250, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110. As of December 31, 2025, this space consists of approximately 2,000 square feet and the lease expires in October 2027. As a remote-first organization, we believe this facility is adequate and suitable for our current and anticipated future needs. Item 3. Legal Proceedings. From time to time, we may be party to litigation and subject to claims incident to the ordinary course of our business. As our growth continues, we may become party to an increasing number of litigation matters and claims. The outcome of litigation and claims cannot be predicted with certainty, and the resolution of these matters could materially affect our future results of operations, cash flows, or financial position. We are not presently party to any legal proceedings that, in the opinion of management, if determined adversely to us, would individually or taken together have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, financial condition, or cash flows. Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures. Not applicable. 36 PART II Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities. Market Information Our Class A Common Stock and Public Warrants are listed on The Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbols “BNZI” and “BNZIW,” respectively. Our Class B Common Stock is not publicly traded. All Class A Common Stock share and per share information included in this Report has been retroactively adjusted to reflect the impact of the 2024 Reverse Stock Split and 2025 Reverse Stock Split. Holders of Record As of March 27, 2026, there were 56 holders of record of our Class A Common Stock, 1 holder of record of our Class B Common Stock, and 1 holder of record of our Public Warrants. These numbers do not include beneficial owners whose securities were held in street name. Dividend Policy As of the date of this Report, we have not declared or paid any cash dividends on our Common Stock. We expect to retain future earnings, if any, for future operations, expansion and debt repayment and have no plans to declare or pay cash dividends on our Common Stock for the foreseeable future. Any decision to declare and pay dividends in the future will be made at the discretion of the Board and will depend on, among other things, our results of operations, financial condition, cash requirements, contractual restrictions and other factors that the Board may deem relevant. In addition, our ability to pay dividends may be limited by covenants of any existing and future outstanding indebtedness we or our subsidiaries incur. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities During the period covered by this Report, the Company has not issued unregistered securities to any person, except as described below. None of these transactions involved any underwriters, underwriting discounts or commissions, except as specified below, or any public offering, and, unless otherwise indicated below, the Registrant believes that each transaction was exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(a)(2) thereof and/or Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder, and/or Regulation S promulgated thereunder regarding offshore offers and sales. All recipients had adequate access, though their relationships with the Registrant, to information about the Registrant. Yorkville Promissory Notes On December 14, 2023, Legacy Banzai issued a convertible promissory note in the principal amount of $2.0 million to Yorkville pursuant to the SEPA and on February 5, 2024, and March 26, 2024, the Company issued convertible promissory notes in the principal amount of $1.0 million and $1.5 million, respectively, to Yorkville pursuant to the SEPA. Between January 1, 2024 and June 30, 2024, the Company issued 64,852 shares of Common Stock to Yorkville upon conversion of $1.8 million of the Yorkville Promissory Notes. In addition, on March 18, 2024, the Company issued 14,201 shares of Common Stock to Yorkville in satisfaction of a deferred fee payment in the amount of $500,000. Further, on May 3, 2024, the Company agreed to issue to Yorkville 12,000 shares of Common Stock, which shares represent satisfaction of a $200,000 Payment Premium due in accordance with the Yorkville Promissory Notes in connection with our early redemption of $2 million outstanding under the Yorkville Promissory Notes with the proceeds from the sale of our securities in a past share offering. The Company's issuance of the Yorkville Promissory Notes and the shares of Class A Common Stock issued to Yorkville and issuable upon conversion of the Yorkville Promissory Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act. Between January 1, 2024 and October 14, 2024, 454,158 shares of Common Stock had been issued upon conversion of the Yorkville Promissory Notes and a cash payment of $750,000 was made in May 2024. The aggregate principal amount was fully satisfied that no remaining outstanding balance under the Yorkville Promissory Notes as of December 31, 2024. 37 GEM Promissory Note On February 5, 2024, the Company issued the GEM Promissory Note in the principal amount of $1.0 million to GEM pursuant to the GEM Settlement Agreement. The GEM Promissory Note provides for the issuance of shares of Common Stock at a conversion price equal to the VWAP of the trading day immediately preceding the applicable payment due date. As of March 27, 2026, we have issued an aggregate of 19,000 shares of Class A Common Stock to GEM in satisfaction of the aggregate $784,943 principal amount outstanding under the GEM Promissory Note and paid the remaining balance of $215,057 in cash. Roth Shares On February 2, 2024, the Company issued 350 shares of Class A Common Stock to Roth pursuant to the Roth Addendum as consideration for advisory services provided by Roth in connection with the Business Combination. Marketing Agreement Shares Effective March 20, 2024, the Company issued to a consultant (the “Marketing Consultant”) 307 shares of its Class A Common Stock, which shares represented $200,000 of compensation for the Marketing Consultant’s services under a marketing services agreement. Consulting Services Agreement Shares On April 13, 2024, the Company entered into a Consulting Services Agreement with a consultant (the “Business Consultant”). The Company agreed to issue to the Business Consultant a total of 640 shares of its Class A Common Stock. Debt Equitization Issuances From August 23, 2024 to September 23, 2024 the Company entered into various agreements to reorganize outstanding debt from certain creditors (collectively, the “Creditors”) into shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock (the “Shares”) (collectively, the “Debt Reorganization”). The Shares issued as part of the Debt Reorganization are a mix of Shares that are to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) in a registration statement on Form S-1 and Shares that are exempt from registration. As of December 31, 2024, the Company has issued an aggregate of 302,794 Shares to the Creditors in exchange for the cancellation of an aggregate of $5,464,657 of debt. The Company agreed to issue an aggregate of 45,000 additional Shares pursuant to the Debt Reorganization. On September 9, 2024, the Company issued 2,400 restricted shares of its Common Stock, partially in exchange for the various investor relations services outlined in the Consulting Agreement with MZHCI, LLC, an MZ Group Company. On February 4, 2025 the Company issued 3,000 shares to Verista Partners, Inc., aka Winterberry Group, one of its Creditors, in exchange for the cancellation of a portion of the total outstanding debt, in the amount of $16,666, pursuant to the Debt Reorganization. CP BF/Alco Shares As of March 27, 2026, we issued an aggregate of 264,939 shares of Class A Common Stock to CP BF and Alco, which includes 104,882 pre-funded warrants Alco exercised on April 21, 2025, pursuant to the agreements we entered into with them in September 2024. In October 2025, CP BF exercised its optional conversion option pursuant to which it received an aggregate of 62,700 shares of Class A Common Stock at conversion prices ranging from $2.38 to $2.74 per share, in satisfaction of an aggregate of $167,116 of the Company’s obligations under the 2024 CP BF Convertible Note. Hudson Global Ventures Shares On October 15, 2024, the Company issued 4,500 shares of Class A Common Stock to Hudson Global Ventures, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company ("Hudson") pursuant to the Consulting Agreement as consideration for advisory services provided by Hudson. On January 3, 2025 and April 25, 2025, the Company issued 15,000 and 4,000 restricted shares of its Class A Common Stock, respectively, in exchange for the business advisory services outlined in the consulting agreements with Hudson. 38 CP BF Pre-Funded Warrant Exercise On January 7, 2025, the Company issued 4 shares of Class A Common Stock to CP BF, resulting from the exercise of 4 pre-funded warrants under the CP BF Pre-Funded Warrant. RSU Issuance to Executives On March 6, 2025, the Company issued 33,777 shares of Class A common stock related to RSUs issued to executives as part of the Company’s fiscal 2024 bonus plan, following Board approvals. Acquisition of Vidello On January 31, 2025, the Company closed a previously announced merger with Vidello, pursuant to which, the Company issued 89,820 shares of Class A Common Stock to the shareholders of Vidello. Private Placement In May 2025, the Company entered into a private placement agreement with certain investors to sell 31,884 shares of Class A common stock at $6.90 per share and 32,352 prefunded warrants (the “May 2025 Prefunded Warrants”) at $3.40 per warrant. The May 2025 Prefunded Warrants were immediately exercised, resulting in the issuance of 32,352 shares of Class A common stock. The Company collected in aggregate $330,000 of gross proceeds from this private placement. Shares of Class A Common Stock issued to 1800 Diagonal Between July 22, 2025 and March 27, 2026, the Company issued an aggregate of 717,126 shares of Class A Common Stock, pursuant to conversion notices from 1800 Diagonal to convert an aggregate of $831,039 in notes the Company previously issued to them; the conversion price ranged from $0.878 per share to $2.2685 per share. Shares of Class A Common Stock issued upon conversion of Senior Secured Convertible Notes As of March 27, 2026, the Company issued an aggregate of 5,441,812 shares of Class A Common Stock, pursuant to conversion notices to convert an aggregate of $7,243,587 in senior secured convertible notes the Company previously issued to an institutional investor at conversion prices ranging from $0.831 to $2.577 per share. Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers None. Item 6. Reserved 39 Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our consolidated audited financial statements and related notes included in Part II, Item 8 of this Form 10-K. In addition to historical consolidated financial information, the following discussion contains forward-looking statements that reflect our plans, estimates and beliefs. Our actual results could differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to these differences include those discussed below and elsewhere particularly in the section titled “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this Form 10-K. Certain figures, such as interest rates and other percentages, included in this section have been rounded for ease of presentation. Percentage figures included in this section have not in all cases been calculated on the basis of such rounded figures but on the basis of such amounts prior to rounding. For this reason, percentage amounts in this section may vary slightly from those obtained by performing the same calculations using the figures in our consolidated financial statements or in the associated text. Certain other amounts that appear in this section may similarly not sum due to rounding. Overview Banzai is a Marketing Technology (MarTech) company that produces data-driven marketing and sales solutions for businesses of all sizes. Our mission is to help our customers accomplish their mission - by enabling better marketing, sales, and customer engagement outcomes. Banzai endeavors to acquire companies strategically positioned to enhance our product and service offerings, increasing the value provided to current and prospective customers. Banzai was founded in 2015. The first product Banzai launched was Reach, a SaaS and managed services offering designed to increase registration and attendance of marketing events, followed by the acquisition of Demio, a SaaS solution for webinars designed for marketing, sales, and customer success teams, in 2021 and the launch of Boost, a SaaS solution for social sharing designed to increase attendance for Demio-hosted events by enabling easy social sharing by event registrants, in 2023. We acquired OpenReel in 2024, and both Vidello and the assets of Superblocks in 2025, further expanding our platform and customer base. Our customer base comes from a variety of industries, including (among others) healthcare, financial services, e-commerce, technology and media, in over 90 countries. Our customers range in size from solo entrepreneurs and small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. No single customer represents more than 10% of our revenue. Since 2021, we have focused on increasing mid-market and enterprise customers for Demio. We sell our products using a recurring subscription license model typical in SaaS businesses. Pricing tiers for our main product, Demio, are based on the number of host-capable users, desired feature sets, and maximum audience size. Boost pricing tiers are based on the Demio plan to which the customer subscribes. Reach pricing is based on the number of event campaigns a customer has access to run simultaneously or the maximum number of registrations a customer is allowed to generate per subscription period. Our customer contracts vary in term length from single months to multiple years. Full Year 2025 Financial and Operational Highlights • Revenue grew 168.6% to $12.2 million for full year 2025 compared to 2024. Total cost of revenue increased only 53.8% year over year, resulting in improved gross profit. • Gross profit reached $10.0 million for full year 2025, compared to $3.1 million in 2024. Gross profit was 82.0% in full year 2025 compared to 68.6% in 2024. • Net loss decreased to $22.5 million for full year 2025, compared to $31.5 million in 2024, which represents a $9.0 million improvement year over year. • Stockholders' equity increased $10.8 million to $8.1 million as of December 31, 2025. The company made substantial improvements to the balance sheet during 2025. • Executed a payoff and debt conversion agreement for approximately $4.3 million in outstanding senior secured debt. The decision by senior debt holders to convert into equity reflects a strong vote of confidence in our vision and trajectory. • Secured an $11 million debt facility in June 2025 with an institutional investor to support ongoing operations and solidify the foundation for future growth. 40 • Expanded our customer base to over 150,000 cumulative total customers that have used Banzai products as of December 31, 2025. Customers include blue chip names across healthcare, financial services, e-commerce, technology, and media, with customers in over 90 countries. • Acquired Vidello, a platform of a suite of products for 3D video creation, royalty free music, and video marketing. Vidello offers a comprehensive video hosting and marketing suite that provides entrepreneurs, startups, agencies, and online businesses with tools to grow their businesses. • Acquired the assets of Superblocks, an agentic AI platform for developing and hosting SEO-optimized websites, landing pages, and registration pages. The platform allows marketers to create and host websites using conversational AI, addressing problems that traditionally required rigid template-based site builders or extensive web development expertise. • • An institutional investor increased their direct equity stake to 18.7% following the exercise of warrants. We believe this demonstrates their confidence in our long-term strategy. • Established strong pipeline focused on the BFSI (banking, financial services, insurance, and FinTech) segment with multiple seven-figure deals. We are seeing substantial improvements in our pipeline, especially for mid-market and enterprise customers. • Successfully shifted CreateStudio revenue model from one-time license to recurring subscription revenue. The vast majority of CreateStudio revenue is now recurring, with a very effective customer upsell program running. Summary of our recent acquisitions Superblocks On November 7, 2025, we acquired the assets of Superblocks, a privately-held Agentic AI platform for developing and hosting launch-ready SEO-optimized websites. The Superblocks platform allows marketers to easily create and host websites, landing pages, and simple web applications using conversational AI. Vidello On January 31, 2025, we acquired Vidello, a platform of a suite of products for 3D video creation, royalty free music, and video marketing. Vidello offers a comprehensive video hosting and marketing suite that provides entrepreneurs, startups, agencies, and online businesses with tools to grow their businesses. At the acquisition date, Vidello had over 90,000 customers, and their flagship CreateStudio product has been named a Top 3 Best Rated product in the video maker category by Capterra, and a High Performer by G2. OpenReel On December 18, 2024, we acquired OpenReel, a leading enterprise video creation and management solution that empowers companies to create high-quality content at scale and on brand. OpenReel enables businesses of all sizes to cut down on the time-and resource-intensive process of video creation and scale content creation initiatives efficiently, effectively, and securely. OpenReel is trusted by a wide range of customers from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. OpenReel is based in New York, with its team distributed worldwide. OpenReel’s enterprise customer base includes global organizations, such as Bristol Myers Squibb, Ingram Micro, DXC Technology, Insider Inc., and US Steel. These acquisitions are a key part of our vision to build a comprehensive suite of AI-powered marketing tools that make marketers' lives faster and easier. For more information regarding these acquisitions, See Note 4 – Acquisitions included in our consolidated financial statements in this Report. Transaction Announcement As noted in Item 1. Business, on March 23, 2026, the Company announced that it reached an agreement on terms to acquire assets of ConnectAndSell. The acquisition is expected to increase Banzai’s annual revenue by approximately $15 million. The two companies have executed a non-binding letter of intent, and the final transaction is expected to close in early second quarter 2026, subject to execution of a definitive agreement and closing conditions. 41 Terminated Act-On Merger We entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated January 22, 2025, with Act-On Software, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Act-On”). Although the Company worked diligently to complete all closing conditions of the Plan of Merger, due to market conditions, on June 6, 2025, Act-On served Banzai with a notice of termination to terminate the Merger Agreement and any related agreements (collectively, the “Transaction Documents”). As per the Transaction Documents, within five calendar days, the Company was required to pay certain termination fees including $500,000 in liquidated damages to cover certain transaction expenses that Act-On incurred in connection with the merger and $882,030 in additional interest and extension fees associated with one of Act-On’s outstanding debts that the Company had intended to payoff in connection with the merger. As of December 31, 2025, the Company had paid the total amount owed of approximately $1,382,030 to Act-On. The Business Combination and Public Company Costs The Business Combination was accounted for as a reverse recapitalization. Under this method of accounting, 7GC was treated as the acquired company for financial statement reporting purposes. Accordingly, for accounting purposes, the financial statements of Banzai represent a continuation of the financial statements of Legacy Banzai with the Business Combination treated as the equivalent of Legacy Banzai issuing stock for the net assets of 7GC, accompanied by a recapitalization. The net assets of 7GC were stated at historical cost, with no goodwill or other intangible assets recorded. Operations prior to the Business Combination are those of Legacy Banzai in this and future reports of Banzai. Due to the Business Combination, we became the successor to an SEC-registered and Nasdaq-listed company, which required Banzai to hire additional personnel and implement procedures and processes to address public company regulatory requirements and customary practices. We incurred and expect to incur additional annual expenses as a public company for, among other things, directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, director fees and additional internal and external accounting, legal and administrative resources, including increased audit and legal fees. We are classified as a “smaller reporting company.” As a result, we have been provided with certain disclosure and regulatory relief. Our future results of operations and financial position may not be comparable to Legacy Banzai’s historical results of operations and financial position as a result of the Business Combination. 42 Results of Operations Year Ended December 31, Year-over-Year ($ in Thousands) 2025 2024 $ % Operating income: Revenue $ 12,161 $ 4,528 $ 7,633 168.6 % Cost of revenue 2,189 1,423 766 53.8 % Gross profit 9,972 3,105 6,867 221.2 % Operating expenses: General and administrative expenses 27,287 16,549 10,738 64.9 % Depreciation and amortization expense 1,150 24 1,126 nm Total operating expenses 28,437 16,573 11,864 71.6 % Operating loss (18,465 ) (13,468 ) (4,997 ) 37.1 % Other expenses (income): GEM settlement fee expense — 200 (200 ) -100.0 % Interest income (3 ) — (3 ) nm Interest expense 1,228 — 1,228 nm Interest expense – related party 1,157 3,047 (1,890 ) -62.0 % Gain on extinguishment of liabilities (4,489 ) (681 ) (3,808 ) 559.2 % Gain on release of Vidello revenue holdback (973 ) — (973 ) nm Loss on debt issuance 444 653 (209 ) -32.0 % Loss on Private Placement Issuance 4,874 — 4,874 nm Loss on issuance of term notes 111 — 111 nm Loss on issuance of convertible bridge notes 153 — 153 nm Loss on conversion and settlement of Alco promissory notes – related party — 4,809 (4,809 ) -100.0 % Loss on conversion and settlement of CP BF notes – related party — 6,529 (6,529 ) -100.0 % Loss on extinguishment of debt, net 2,403 1,072 1,331 124.2 % Change in fair value of warrant liability (1,244 ) (626 ) (618 ) 98.7 % Change in fair value of warrant liability – related party (2 ) (573 ) 571 -99.7 % Change in fair value of bifurcated embedded derivative assets – related party 54 (51 ) 105 -205.9 % Change in fair value of convertible notes (1,987 ) 693 (2,680 ) -386.7 % Change in fair value of term notes 173 89 84 94.4 % Change in fair value of convertible bridge notes (46 ) (10 ) (36 ) 360.0 % Yorkville prepayment premium expense — 81 (81 ) -100.0 % Loss on Yorkville SEPA advances 974 — 974 nm Vidello earnout expense 486 — 486 nm Failed acquisition costs 1,382 — 1,382 nm Goodwill impairment — 2,725 (2,725 ) -100.0 % Other (income) expense, net (727 ) 88 (815 ) nm Total other expenses, net 3,968 18,045 (14,077 ) -78.0 % Loss before income taxes (22,433 ) (31,513 ) 0.0 % Income tax expense 61 — 61 nm Net loss $ (22,494 ) $ (31,513 ) $ 9,019 -28.6 % 43 The percentage changes included in the tables herein that are not considered meaningful are presented as “nm." Comparison of years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 Revenue Analysis Year Ended December 31, Year-over-Year ($ in Thousands) 2025 2024 $ % Revenue $ 12,161 $ 4,528 $ 7,633 168.6 % The revenue increase was primarily due to the acquisitions of OpenReel in December 2024 and Vidello in January 2025. Revenue from OpenReel and Vidello was approximately $5,473 thousand and $2,261 thousand, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2025. Revenue from Banzai Operating increased by approximately $121 thousand. Cost of Revenue Analysis Year Ended December 31, Year-over-Year ($ in Thousands) 2025 2024 $ % Cost of revenue $ 2,189 $ 1,423 $ 766 53.8 % The cost of revenue increase was primarily due to the acquisitions of OpenReel and Vidello. Cost of revenue from OpenReel and Vidello was approximately $310 thousand and $402 thousand, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2025. Cost of revenue from Banzai Operating increased by approximately $69 thousand. Gross Profit Analysis Year Ended December 31, Year-over-Year ($ in Thousands) 2025 2024 $ % Gross profit $ 9,972 $ 3,105 $ 6,867 221.2 % The gross profit increase was primarily due to the acquisitions of OpenReel and Vidello as described above. Gross profit from OpenReel and Vidello was approximately $5,163 thousand and $1,860 thousand, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2025, and Banzai Operating was approximately $52 thousand. Operating Expense Analysis Year Ended December 31, Year-over-Year ($ in Thousands) 2025 2024 $ % Total operating expenses $ 28,437 $ 16,573 $ 11,864 71.6 % Total operating expenses increased primarily due to the acquisitions of OpenReel and Vidello, which were approximately $6.1 million and $1.9 million, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2025. Additionally the increase was due to an overall increase in salaries and related expenses of approximately $1.6 million primarily driven by stock-based compensation expense, marketing expenses by approximately $0.6 million, and costs associated with audit, technical accounting, and legal and other professional services of approximately $1.8 million. Other Expense Analysis Year Ended December 31, Year-over-Year ($ in Thousands) 2025 2024 $ % Total other expenses, net $ 3,968 $ 18,045 $ (14,077 ) -78.0 % 44 For the year ended December 31, 2025, we reported total other income of approximately $4.0 million. The change in other expenses (income), net was primarily driven by the following: ▪ Total interest expense of approximately $2.4 million recognized during the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to $3.0 million during the year ended December 31, 2024. ▪ Gain on extinguishment of liabilities of approximately $4.5 million recognized during the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to $0.7 million recognized during the year ended December 31, 2024. ▪ Loss on issuance of debt of approximately $0.4 million during the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to $0.7 million during the year ended December 31, 2024. ▪ Loss on Private Placement Issuance of debt of approximately $4.9 million during the year ended December 31, 2025. ▪ Loss on extinguishment of debt, net of approximately $2.4 million during the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to $1.1 million during the year ended December 31, 2024. ▪ Change in fair value of convertible notes was a gain of approximately $2.0 million during the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to a loss of approximately $0.7 million during the year ended December 31, 2024. ▪ Loss on SEPA advances to Yorkville of approximately $1.0 million during the year ended December 31, 2025. ▪ Costs related to the terminated Act-On acquisition of $1.4 million during the year ended December 31, 2025. ▪ Loss on conversion and settlement of CP BF notes of approximately $6.5 million during the year ended December 31, 2024. ▪ Loss on conversion and settlement of Alco promissory notes of approximately $4.8 million during the year ended December 31, 2024. ▪ Goodwill impairment loss associated with the OpenReel acquisition of approximately $2.7 million during the year ended December 31, 2024. Provision for Income Taxes Year Ended December 31, Year-over-Year ($ in Thousands) 2025 2024 $ % Income tax expense $ 61 $ — $ 61 1614.3 % Due to our history of losses since inception, there is not enough evidence at this time to support that we will generate future income of a sufficient amount and nature to utilize the benefits of our net deferred tax assets associated with the U.S. taxing jurisdiction. Accordingly, the U.S. deferred tax assets have been reduced by a full valuation allowance, since we cannot currently support that realization of our deferred tax assets is more likely than not. At December 31, 2025, we had no unrecognized tax benefits that would impact our effective tax rate if recognized. Critical Accounting Estimates Our consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States. The preparation of these consolidated financial statements requires us to make judgments and estimates that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities in our financial statements. We base our estimates on historical experience, known trends and events and various other factors that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Our actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. On a recurring basis, we evaluate our judgments and estimates in light of changes in circumstances, facts, and experience. The effects of material revisions 45 in an estimate, if any, will be reflected in the consolidated financial statements prospectively from the date of the change in the estimate. We believe that the following accounting policies are those most critical to the judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our financial statements. Impairment of goodwill Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price over the fair value of the net identifiable assets acquired in a business combination. Goodwill is reviewed for impairment at least annually, in December, or more frequently if a triggering event occurs between impairment testing dates. As of December 31, 2025, the Company had three operating segments, which were deemed to be its reporting units, for the purpose of evaluating goodwill impairment, and the annual impairment test is performed as of December 31. The Company’s impairment assessment begins with a qualitative assessment to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than its carrying value. Qualitative factors may include, macroeconomic conditions, industry and market considerations, cost factors, and other relevant entity and Company specific events. If, based on the qualitative test, the Company determines that it is "more likely than not” that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying value, then we evaluate goodwill for impairment by comparing the fair value of our reporting unit to its respective carrying value, including its goodwill. If it is determined that it is not likely that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than its carrying value, then no further testing is required. The selection and assessment of qualitative factors used to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit exceeds the carrying value involves significant judgment and estimates. Fair values may be determined using a combination of both income and market-based approaches. As of the annual impairment testing date of December 31, 2025, the Company performed a quantitative assessment by estimating the fair value of the Company using the market capitalization method of the market approach and an income valuation methodology, consisting of a discounted cash flow analysis and market valuation methodologies, consisting of the guideline public company and guideline transaction methods. The market capitalization method calculated the aggregate market value of the Company based on the total number of outstanding shares of common and preferred stock and the market prices of the shares as of the assessment date. The discounted cash flow (“DCF”) estimated the present value of future cash flows. A DCF analysis requires significant judgment to model financial forecasts, which included revenue growth, cost of sales as a percentage of revenue, gross profit margin, operating expenses as a percentage of revenue, EBITDA margin, EBITDA growth, industry and economic trends, and other relevant considerations. For periods beyond those forecasted, a terminal value was estimated based on an assumed long-term growth rate, which was derived using the Gordon Growth Model. The discount rate applied to the forecasted cash flows was calculated using a build-up approach, which starts with the risk-free interest rate, which was then calibrated for market and small stock risk premiums, including a beta, equity risk, size, and small stock risk premiums to reflect risks and uncertainties in the financial market and in the Company’s business projections. The market approach for the guideline public company method utilizes observable market data from comparable public companies, including revenue multiples, to estimate the Company’s fair value. This approach also incorporates a control premium to represent the Company’s expectation of a hypothetical acquisition. The market approach for the guideline transaction method utilizes observable transactions of actual prices paid for target companies that operated in comparable industries or markets facing similar risks. Both methods of the market approach require judgment in the selection of comparable companies or comparable transactions and includes those with similar business activities, and related operating environments. The results of the quantitative assessment indicated that the fair value of each of the Company's reporting units exceeded its carrying value, therefore no goodwill impairment was recognized for the year ended December 31, 2025. Significant negative industry or economic trends, including declines in the market price of the Company’s stock, reduced estimates of future cash flows or business disruptions could result in impairments to goodwill in the future, which would result in recording an impairment loss. Any resulting impairment loss could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s financial condition and results of operations. Management evaluates the economic conditions in between reporting periods for triggering events. 46 Business combinations The Company accounts for business combinations under the acquisition method of accounting, which requires the recognition of acquired tangible and identifiable intangible assets and assumed liabilities at their acquisition date fair values. These fair values are a result of valuation techniques that use significant assumptions that are subject to a high degree of judgment. The excess of the acquisition price over the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed is recorded as goodwill. Results of operations related to acquired entities are included prospectively beginning with the date of acquisition. Acquisition-related costs are expensed as incurred. Fair value estimates under the Fair Value Option The Company measures certain debt instruments at fair value on a recurring basis. Fair value is defined as the price that would be paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. The determination of fair value requires management judgment, including the selection of valuation methodologies and the use of assumptions that may not be observable in the market. The Company has elected the fair value option for certain debt instruments that contain conversion features. When the fair value option is elected, the note is measured at fair value at each reporting date as a single unit of account, and changes in fair value are recognized in earnings. The Company’s election of the fair value option results in recurring fair value measurements that are considered a critical accounting estimate due to the judgment required in estimating fair value and the sensitivity of the measurement to changes in assumptions. The fair value of these debt instruments are estimated using valuation techniques that incorporate inputs that may not be observable in the market and, accordingly, the fair value measurements are generally classified within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy. Key assumptions used to estimate fair value may include, among other things, the Company’s credit risk, discount rates, the expected timing and amount of future cash flows, and assumptions related to the conversion feature, including the Company’s stock price and expected volatility. These assumptions are inherently subjective and may change from period to period. As a result, the estimated fair value could differ materially from amounts that would be paid to transfer the liability in a current market transaction, and changes in these assumptions could materially affect the Company’s consolidated financial statements and results of operations. Non-GAAP Financial Measures Adjusted EBITDA In addition to our results determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, we believe that Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP measure as defined below, is useful in evaluating our operational performance distinct and apart from certain irregular, non-cash, and non-operational expenses. We use this information for ongoing evaluation of operations and for internal planning purposes. We believe that non-GAAP financial information, when taken collectively with results under GAAP, may be helpful to investors in assessing our operating performance and comparing our performance with competitors and other comparable companies. Non-GAAP measures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. We endeavor to compensate for the limitation of Adjusted EBITDA, by also providing the most directly comparable GAAP measure, which is net loss, and a description of the reconciling items and adjustments to derive the non-GAAP measure. Some of these limitations are: ▪ Adjusted EBITDA does not consider the potentially dilutive impact of stock-based compensation ▪ Although depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized may have to be replaced in the future, and Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect cash capital expenditure requirements for such replacements or for new capital expenditures or contractual commitments ▪ Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect impairment and restructuring costs ▪ Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect interest expense or other income ▪ Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect income taxes ▪ Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect audit, legal, incremental accounting and other expenses tied to M&A or the Business Combination; and 47 ▪ Other companies, including companies in our own industry, may calculate Adjusted EBITDA differently from the way we do, limiting its usefulness as a comparative measure. Because of these limitations, Adjusted EBITDA should only be considered alongside results prepared in accordance with GAAP, including various cash-flow metrics, net income (loss) and our other GAAP results and financial performance measures. Adjusted EBITDA Analysis Year Ended December 31, Year-over-Year ($ in Thousands) 2025 2024 $ % Adjusted EBITDA (Loss) $ (7,267 ) $ (6,506 ) $ (761 ) 11.7 % The Adjusted EBITDA decrease is primarily attributable to increased general and administrative expenses. Net Income/(Loss) to Adjusted EBITDA Reconciliation Year Ended December 31, Year-over-Year ($ in Thousands) 2025 2024 $ % Net loss $ (22,494 ) $ (31,513 ) $ 9,019 -28.6 % Interest expense 1,228 — — nm Interest income (3 ) — (3 ) nm Interest expense – related party 1,157 3,047 (1,890 ) -62.0 % Income tax expense 61 — 61 nm Depreciation and amortization expense 1,150 24 1,126 4691.7 % Stock based compensation 2,679 1,166 1,513 129.8 % GEM commitment fee expense — 200 (200 ) nm Gain on extinguishment of liabilities (4,489 ) (681 ) (3,808 ) 559.2 % Gain on release of Vidello revenue holdback (973 ) — (973 ) nm Loss on debt issuance 444 653 (209 ) -32.0 % Loss on Private Placement Issuance 4,874 — 4,874 nm Loss on issuance of term notes 111 — 111 nm Loss on issuance of convertible bridge notes 153 — 153 nm Loss on conversion and settlement of Alco promissory notes - related party — 4,809 (4,809 ) -100.0 % Loss on conversion and settlement of CP BF notes – related party — 6,529 (6,529 ) -100.0 % Loss on extinguishment of debt, net 2,403 1,072 1,331 124.2 % Change in fair value of warrant liability (1,244 ) (626 ) (618 ) 98.7 % Change in fair value of warrant liability – related party (2 ) (573 ) 571 -99.7 % Change in fair value of bifurcated embedded derivative assets – related party 54 (51 ) 105 -205.9 % Change in fair value of convertible notes (1,987 ) 693 (2,680 ) -386.7 % Change in fair value of term notes 173 89 84 94.4 % Change in fair value of convertible bridge notes (46 ) (10 ) (36 ) 360.0 % Yorkville prepayment premium expense — 81 (81 ) -100.0 % Loss on Yorkville SEPA advances 974 — 974 nm Vidello earnout expense 486 — 486 nm Failed acquisition costs 1,382 — 1,382 nm Goodwill impairment — 2,725 (2,725 ) -100.0 % Other expense, net (727 ) 88 (815 ) -926.1 % Transaction related expenses* 7,369 5,772 1,597 27.7 % Adjusted EBITDA $ (7,267 ) $ (6,506 ) $ (761 ) 11.7 % 48 * Transaction related expenses include Year Ended December 31, Year-over-Year ($ in Thousands) 2025 2024 $ % Professional fees - audit $ 801 $ 499 $ 302 60.4 % Professional fees - legal 467 1,969 (1,502 ) -76.3 % Incremental accounting 981 1,726 (745 ) -43.2 % Market study, M&A support 5,121 1,578 3,543 224.5 % Transaction related expenses $ 7,369 $ 5,772 $ 1,597 27.7 % Liquidity and Capital Resources Going Concern As of December 31, 2025 we had cash of approximately $0.3 million. For the year ended December 31, 2025, while we generated revenue of approximately $12.2 million, we used approximately $15.7 million in cash from operating activities and had a net loss of approximately $22.5 million. We have incurred recurring net losses from operations and negative cash flows from operating activities since inception. As of December 31, 2025, we had a working capital deficit of approximately $21.0 million and an accumulated deficit of approximately $100.8 million. These factors raise substantial doubt regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year of the date these financial statements were issued. The ability to continue as a going concern is dependent on Management’s plans, which include potential asset acquisitions, mergers or business combinations with other entities, further implementation of its business plans and continuing to raise capital through debt or equity financings, which is not assured. The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming Banzai will continue as a going concern, which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business. If we are unable to raise sufficient additional capital, through future debt or equity financings or through strategic and collaborative ventures with third parties, we will not have sufficient cash flows and liquidity to fund our planned business for 12 months from the issuance of these financial statements. There can be no assurances that we will be able to secure alternate forms of financing at terms that are acceptable to management, or at all. In that event, we might be forced to limit many of our business plans and consider other means of creating value for our stockholders. See also Note 2 – Going Concern to our consolidated financial statements in this Report. Capital structure and sources of liquidity We have historically funded our operations through a combination of equity and debt financings, including convertible instruments. During 2025, we raised capital through multiple equity and debt financing arrangements with Yorkville, 3i, LP, 1800 Diagonal, Agile, and CP BF, and other lenders and investors, and we intend to seek additional funding through the Yorkville SEPA, the ATM Agreement, as well as other equity and debt financings in 2026. See Note 12 – Debt and Note 15 – Equity to our consolidated financial statements in this Report for further discussion of these arrangements . Certain of these arrangements still have remaining capacity that may serve as sources of future liquidity to us, however, our ability to access amounts under these facilities is subject to a number of conditions, limitations, and market and other factors, including factors described in our Risk Factors elsewhere in this Report, and there can be no assurance that we will be able to access the full remaining capacity, or access it on terms or in amounts sufficient to meet our liquidity needs. If we are unable to raise such funding, we will have to pursue an alternative course of action to seek additional capital through other debt and equity financing. We may seek to raise additional capital through a combination of debt and equity financings, including continued use of our at-the-market facility and our SEPA, to support our operations and expansion through acquisition. 49 Cash Flows The following table sets forth our cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024. See also our consolidated statement of cash flows in this Report: Year Ended December 31, Year-over-Year ($ in Thousands) 2025 2024 $ % Net loss $ (22,492 ) $ (31,513 ) $ 9,021 -28.6 % Net cash used in operating activities (15,707 ) (9,575 ) (6,132 ) 64.0 % Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities (2,679 ) 82 (2,761 ) -3367.1 % Net cash provided by financing activities 17,634 8,487 9,147 107.8 % Net decrease in cash (828 ) (1,006 ) 178 -17.7 % Cash at beginning of period 1,087 2,094 (1,007 ) -48.1 % Cash at end of period 259 1,087 (828 ) -76.2 % Cash Flows for the Year Ended December 31, 2025 Net cash used in operating activities was primarily driven by the net loss, and by working capital adjustments totaling $0.3 million (unfavorable), partially offset by adjustments for non-cash items totaling $4.3 million (favorable). The non-cash items primarily consisted of addbacks for stock-based compensation expense of approximately $2.7 million and depreciation and amortization of approximately $1.2 million, the net impact of debt-related transactions (including gain on extinguishment of debt, loss on issuance of debt and non-cash interest expense) totaling $4.7 million favorable, and the net impact of change in fair value adjustments (including debt under the fair value option, warrants and derivatives) totaling $4.3 million unfavorable. Net cash used in investing activities was primarily related to our acquisition of Vidello. Net cash provided by financing activities was primarily driven by proceeds from issuance of shares under the SEPA totaling approximately $18.6 million, proceeds from issuances of debt (both convertible and term) totaling approximately $17.1 million, proceeds from issuances of shares and warrants totaling $3.9 million, partially offset by repayments of debt totaling $18.6 million. Cash Flows for the Year Ended December 31, 2024 Net cash used in operating activities was approximately $9.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2024. Net cash used in operating activities consists of net loss of approximately $31.5 million, offset by total adjustments of approximately $22.0 million for non-cash items and the effect of changes in working capital. Non-cash adjustments primarily included loss on conversion and settlement of Alco promissory notes of approximately $4.8 million, loss on conversion and settlement of CP BF notes of approximately $6.5 million, non-cash settlement of the GEM commitment fee of approximately $0.2 million, non-cash share issuance for marketing expenses of approximately $0.2 million, non-cash share issuance for Yorkville redemption premium of approximately $0.1 million, stock-based compensation expense of approximately $1.2 million, gain on extinguishment of liability of approximately $0.7 million, loss on issuance of debt of approximately $0.7 million, loss on extinguishment of term notes of approximately $1.1 million, non-cash interest expense of approximately $2.3 million (approximately $1.53 million for related party), amortization of debt discount and issuance costs for related party of approximately $1.4 million, amortization of operating lease ROU assets of approximately $0.1 million, fair value adjustment for warrant liabilities gain of approximately $1.2 million (gain of approximately $0.6 million for related party), fair value adjustment to related party bifurcated embedded derivative liabilities gain of approximately $0.1 million, fair value adjustment of convertible promissory notes of approximately $0.7 million, fair value adjustment of term notes of approximately $0.1 million, goodwill impairment loss of approximately $2.7 million, and net of change in operating assets and liabilities of approximately $1.8 million. Net cash provided by investing activities was approximately $0.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2024 and was related to cash acquired in the acquisition of OpenReel. Net cash provided by financing activities was approximately $8.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, and was primarily related to proceeds from convertible debt financing of approximately $2.6 million, net proceeds from issuance of common stock of approximately $6.3 million, net proceeds from the issuance of term notes of approximately $2.8 million, proceeds from related party advance of approximately $0.1 million, proceeds from issuance of shares under 50 the SEPA agreement of approximately $0.9 million, repayment of term notes of approximately $1.9 million, partial repayment of convertible notes with a related party of approximately $0.3 million, repayment of Yorkville convertible notes of approximately $0.8 million, and payment of the GEM commitment fee of approximately $1.2 million. Debt Structure, Debt Maturity Profile, Contractual Obligations and Commitments Our material cash requirements include operating expenses to support the business, debt service (including principal and interest), and contractual obligations such as operating lease commitments. The timing of these requirements within the next 12 months and thereafter is summarized in the table below. ($ in Thousands) Principal Accrued Interest Total Principal and Accrued Interest Less than 1 year 1 - 3 Years Debt principal – 15.5% CP BF convertible notes $ 3,365 $ 1,558 $ 4,923 $ — $ 4,923 Debt principal – Agile 1,839 — 1,839 1,839 — Debt principal – Private Placement convertible notes 1,709 171 1,880 1,880 — Debt principal – Yorkville 1,192 34 1,226 1,226 — Debt principal – 1800 Diagonal 722 71 793 793 — Debt principal – Boot Capital 115 2 117 117 — Operating leases 61 - 61 33 28 Total capital expenditure commitments and financing requirements at December 31, 2025 $ 9,003 $ 1,836 $ 10,839 $ 5,888 $ 4,951 Deferred Revenue As a subscription-based SaaS company, we frequently bill customers in advance for access to our platform for a specified subscription term. Amounts invoiced or collected in advance are recorded as deferred revenue, which represents a contract liability where we have performance obligations to provide access to the platform and customer support over the remaining subscription term. As we satisfy the related performance obligations over time, deferred revenue is reduced and we recognized revenue. Operating Lease We have an operating lease for office space. The lease term expires in October 2027. The lease liability balance as of December 31, 2025 represents the future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable leases as liabilities. Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements Banzai had no off-balance sheet arrangements as of December 31, 2025. Nasdaq Listing Compliance As more fully described in " Item 1. Business" above, we effected the September Stock Split during 2024 and the July Stock Split during 2025, which were 1-for-50 and 1-for-10, respectively, in order to regain compliance with Nasdaq Rules. In addition, as previously disclosed, due to prior noncompliance with certain Nasdaq Rules, we had a hearing before the Nasdaq Panel during 2024, after which, our Class A Common Stock was phased down from the Nasdaq Global Market to the Nasdaq Capital Market. We received additional letters from Nasdaq regarding noncompliance with certain Nasdaq Rules, and were subsequently notified by Nasdaq during 2024 and 2025 that we have regained compliance with all Nasdaq Rules and therefore our securities remain listed on The Nasdaq Capital Market. However, there can be no assurance that we will be able to maintain compliance with Nasdaq listing standards. Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk. This item is not applicable as we are a smaller reporting company. 51 Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data. The information required by this Item 8 is included at the end of this Report beginning on page F-1 and is incorporated herein by reference. Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure. None. Item 9A. Controls and Procedures. Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures Based on an evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) required by paragraph (b) of Rule 13a-15 or Rule 15d-15, as of December 31, 2025, our Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer have concluded that, due to the material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting noted below, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective. Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we have evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our “disclosure controls and procedures,” as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) or Rule 15d-15(e) promulgated under the Exchange Act as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of December 31, 2025, to provide reasonable assurance that material information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms due to the material weaknesses in our IT General Controls, adherence to the COSO Integrated Framework, and period end financial close and reporting process as described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, as filed with the SEC on April 15, 2025 (the “2024 10-K"). We are committed to the remediation of the material weaknesses as well as the continued improvement of our internal control over financial reporting. We are in the process of taking steps to remediate the identified material weaknesses and continue to evaluate our internal controls over financial reporting, as disclosed in the 2024 10-K. As we continue our evaluation and improve our internal control over financial reporting, management may identify and take additional measures to address control deficiencies. We cannot assure you that we will be successful in remediating the material weaknesses in a timely manner. Management’s Annual Report on Internal Controls over Financial Reporting Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over our financial reporting. As defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission, internal control over financial reporting is a process designed by, or under the supervision of our principal executive and principal financial officers and effected by our Board of Directors, management and other personnel, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of the financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Our internal control system was designed to provide reasonable assurances to our management and the Board of Directors regarding the preparation and fair presentation of published financial statements. Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Therefore, even those systems determined to be effective can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to financial statement preparation and presentation. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. Our management assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025. In making this assessment, management used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013). The COSO Framework summarizes each of the components of a company’s internal control system, including (i) the control environment, (ii) risk assessment, (iii) control activities, (iv) information and communication, and (v) monitoring. 52 Based on that evaluation, as of December 31, 2025, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer concluded that our internal controls and procedures are not effective, and that we have material weaknesses in our IT General Controls, adherence to the COSO Integrated Framework, and period end financial close and reporting process as described below. As a result, these control deficiencies could have resulted in a material misstatement in our financial statements that would not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. (1) IT General Controls - We did not maintain an effective IT control environment because we did not maintain sufficient provisioning, deprovisioning, user access reviews, and reviews of service organizations. (2) COSO Entity Level Controls - We did not maintain effective controls over the identification and monitoring of related party relationships and transactions and have not yet implemented a formal delegation of authority process. (3) Period end financial close and reporting - Administrative access to the General Ledger (GL) system is not restricted to non-financial reporting users, creating a potential segregation of duties conflict. Given the concentration of responsibility includes approval of key transactions, bank account reconciliations, and journal entries, administrative access to the G/L system should be restricted to personnel outside of Accounting and Finance function. Remediation of Material Weaknesses We are committed to the remediation of the material weaknesses described above, as well as the continued improvement of our internal control over financial reporting. We remain in the process of taking steps to remediate the identified material weaknesses and continue to evaluate our internal controls over financial reporting, including the following: IT General Controls: ▪ We will continue to utilize the services of external consultants to review our internal controls environment and make recommendations to remediate the material weaknesses in our financial reporting, including the remediation of the design of controls over provisioning, deprovisioning, access monitoring, and reviews of service organizations and complementary user entity controls. COSO Entity Level Controls: ▪ We will continue to utilize the services of external consultants to assist enhancement and robustness of entity level controls, leveraging the formal COSO mapping and maintenance of entity level controls currently being performed. ▪ Specifically, we will continue with the process of implementing controls to identify and monitor related party relationships and transactions and to finalize a formal delegation of authority process. Period End Financial Close and Reporting: ▪ We will conduct an assessment, and where necessary perform remedial actions, of our overall security role design and privileged user access for each of our in-scope applications, including our general ledger system. As we continue our evaluation and improve our internal control over financial reporting, management may identify and take additional measures to address control deficiencies but cannot provide absolute assurance that we will be successful in remediating the material weaknesses in a timely manner. This Report does not include an attestation report of our independent registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. Management’s report was not subject to attestation by our independent registered public accounting firm pursuant to exemptions provided to issuers that are non-accelerated filers as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933. Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting As required by Rule 13a-15(d) of the Exchange Act, our management, including our principal executive officer and our principal financial officer, evaluated whether any changes in our internal control over financial reporting occurred during the quarter ended December 31, 2025 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting. Based on that evaluation, our principal executive officer and principal 53 financial officer concluded that the merger transaction with Vidello is considered a significant corporate event during the year ended December 31, 2025. On January 31, 2025, our company closed and completed a merger with Vidello Limited ("Vidello"), a private limited company registered in England and Wales, pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the "Vidello Merger Agreement"), dated December 19, 2024, by and among the Company, Vidello, and certain shareholders of Vidello (the "Vidello Shareholders"). As a result, there have been material changes to our internal control environment. Our management has begun to assess and adjust our internal control processes to accommodate the integration of systems, personnel, and financial reporting functions. We will work on implementing additional controls to address the combined entity’s financial reporting requirements, ensuring accuracy, reliability, and compliance. While we believe these adjustments will enhance our overall control framework, we continue to monitor and evaluate their effectiveness to maintain the highest standards of financial reporting integrity. Other than the changes noted above regarding our steps to remediate our material weaknesses and the Vidello merger, there were no other changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as the term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the year ended December 31, 2025 that have materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Item 9B. Other Information. a) There is nothing that the Company would be required to report on Form 8-K during the fourth quarter of the year covered by this Form 10-K that the Company has not reported on a Form 8-K. b) During the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2025, none of our officers or directors, as defined in Rule 16a-1(f), informed us of the adoption , modification , or termination of any “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” or a “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement,” as those terms are defined in Item 408 of Regulation S-K. The Company has adopted insider trading policies and procedures governing the purchase, sale and/or other dispositions of our securities by directors, officers, employees, and the Company itself, that are reasonably designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations and listing standards. Item 9C. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections. Not applicable. 54 PART III Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance. The following table sets forth as of the date of this Report, the name, age, and position of each director and executive officer: Directors and Executive Officers Name Age Position Joseph Davy 36 Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Director Dean Ditto 59 Chief Financial Officer Simon Baumer 40 Chief Technology Officer Jack Leeney 41 Director Mason Ward 44 Director Paula Boggs 66 Director Kent Schofield 46 Director Executive Officer Biographies Joseph Davy serves as our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of our Board, and prior to the Business Combination, served as Chief Executive Officer and as a member the Board of Legacy Banzai since co-founding Legacy Banzai in 2015. Prior to co-founding Legacy Banzai, Mr. Davy served as the General Manager at Avalara from 2013 to 2016. From 2012 to 2013, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Buystand. From 2012 to 2013, he also served as Customer Advisory Board Member at Microsoft Corp. Mr. Davy founded EvoApp in 2009 and served as its Chief Executive Officer and Chief Product Officer from 2009 to 2012. Prior to his service at EvoApp, Mr. Davy was a software engineer at International Business Machines Corp (IBM). Mr. Davy also served as a member of the board of directors of Legalpad Inc. from 2019 to 2022. Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Davy attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2007 to 2010. We believe Mr. Davy is qualified to serve on the Board due to his extensive venture capital experience and experience as founder and chief executive officer of Legacy Banzai. Dean Ditto serves as our Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Banzai, Mr. Ditto served in various CFO roles leading finance, capital markets, accounting, and reporting teams. Mr. Ditto served as the co-founder and Chief Financial Officer for Delta CXO LLC., from February 2024 to July 2025. From April 2022 to February 2024 Mr. Ditto served as the Chief Financial Officer for Akerna Corp. From December 2020 to August 2022 Mr. Ditto served as the Chief Financial Officer for Mydecine Innovations Group, Inc. From June 2019 to September 2020 Mr. Ditto served as the Chief Financial Officer for Sigue Corporation. Mr. Ditto attended Albion College from 1984 to 1988 where he received his Bachelors in Economics and Management, and then attended Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business from 1991 to 1993 where he received his M.B.A in Finance. Simon Baumer serves as our Chief Technology Officer and prior to this, served as Legacy Banzai’s Chief Technology Officer since 2021. Prior to that, Mr. Baumer worked at Verivox GmbH as Vice President of Engineering from 2018 to 2021, as Head of Software Development from 2016 to 2021, and as Teamlead for Software Development from 2015 to 2021. Mr. Baumer attended Heidelberg University from 2007 to 2013 where he received his Masters degree in Computer Science. Non-Executive Director Biographies Jack Leeney has served as a member of the Board since 2023 and prior to this, served as 7GC’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since its inception. Since September 2016, Mr. Leeney has served as a Founding Partner of 7GC & Co Sarl and is responsible for running the firm’s operations. Mr. Leeney led the firm’s investments in Cheddar TV, Capsule Pharmacy, hims & hers, Jyve, Roofstock, The Mom Project, and Reliance Jio. Since 2020, he has served as a director for The Mom Project. From December 2020 to November 2022, he served as a director of PTIC, a SPAC that closed an initial business combination with RW National Holdings, LLC (d/b/a Appreciate), the parent holding company of Renters Warehouse, in November 2022. Between April 2011 and December 2016, Mr. Leeney served on the boards of directors of Quantenna Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: QTNA), DoAt Media Ltd. (Private), CinePapaya (acquired by Comcast), Joyent (acquired by Samsung), BOKU, Inc. (AIM: BOKU), Eventful (acquired by CBS) and Blueliv (Private). Previously, Mr. Leeney served as the Head of U.S. Investing for Telefonica Ventures, the investment arm of Telefonica (NYSE: TEF), between June 2012 and September 2016 and as an investor at Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) between May 2011 and June 2012. He began his career as a technology-focused investment banker at Morgan Stanley in 2007, where he worked 55 on the initial public offerings for Tesla Motors, LinkedIn, and Pandora. Mr. Leeney holds a B.S. from Syracuse University. We believe Mr. Leeney is qualified to serve on the Board due to his extensive venture capital experience. Mason Ward has served as a member of the Board since December 2023, and prior to this, has served as the Chief Financial Officer of Alco Investment Company since 2018, and served as its Controller and Finance Director from 2015 to 2018. Prior to joining Alco, Mr. Ward served as an Infantry Officer in multiple operations, logistics, risk management and fiscal operations roles during two deployments to Afghanistan with the United States Army. Mr. Ward holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a Certificate in Accounting and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Washington, and he is also a certified public accountant (inactive). We believe Mr. Ward is qualified to serve on the Board due to his extensive finance and accounting expertise and experience. Paula Boggs has served as a member of the Board since December 2023, and prior to this, is the founder and owner of Boggs Media, LLC, which manages Ms. Boggs’ musical, public speaking, and other creative business endeavors. A former executive at the Starbucks Coffee Company, she led the global law department of Starbucks from 2002 to 2012 and was Corporate Secretary of the Starbucks Foundation. Prior to that, Ms. Boggs was a Vice President of Legal for products, operations and information technology at Dell Computer Corporation from 1997 to 2002 and also held the role of Senior Deputy General Counsel starting in June 1997. Before joining Dell, Ms. Boggs was a partner with the law firm of Preston Gates & Ellis LLP from 1995 to 1997. Ms. Boggs is also a voting member and Pacific Northwest Chapter Governor of the Recording Academy, and serves on the Newport Festivals Foundation board, overseeing both the Newport Jazz Festival and Newport Folk Festival. She was previously on the board of Fender; a member of the Board of Premera Blue Cross and chair of its compensation and investments committees; a member of the Nominating/Trusteeship, Audit/Compliance (including six years as the chair of the audit committee) and Executive Committees of Johns Hopkins University’s board of trustees; a member of the Executive Committee of KEXP Radio, an affiliate of National Public Radio and the University of Washington; a member of the audit committee for School of Rock LLC; a member of the American Bar Association board of governors, chairing its investments committee; a member of the President’s Committee for the Arts and the Humanities from 2013 through 2017; a member of the White House Council for Community Solutions from 2010 to 2012; a member of the audit and nominating committee of the American Red Cross; and a member of the board of Sterling Financial Inc. Ms. Boggs holds a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. We believe Ms. Boggs is qualified to serve on the Board due to her extensive governance and Fortune 500 experience with high-growth companies. Kent Schofield holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from UCLA and has a distinguished career in finance and corporate development. From September 2010 to June 2015, he worked for Goldman Sachs, where he served as Vice President and lead equity analyst covering technology companies in the software and hardware industries. Following Goldman Sachs, Mr. Schofield spent 5 years at Uber, from April 2017 to September 2021, in various positions including Director of Investor Relations and Corporate Development. At Uber, Mr. Schofield was one of four Uber representatives for the company’s $8.1 billion IPO roadshow; he also served as a Director of Strategic Finance at Uber. Since December 2022, Mr. Schofield has been serving as the Chief Financial Officer of Welcome Tech, a leading provider of immigrant and hourly employee subscription services. We believe Mr. Schofield is qualified to serve on the Board due to his extensive public market investing and financial experience. Significant Employee Other than our officers and directors, we currently have one person who we consider to be a significant employee: Michael Kurtzman serves as our Chief Revenue Officer. Most recently, Mr. Kurtzman served as CEO of Violett, Inc., an AI-enabled air health platform. Prior to that, he was Chief Revenue Officer at Zype (acquired by Backlight), where he oversaw all revenue and customer-facing functions and led the integration of multiple acquisitions. Earlier in his career, he served as Senior Vice President of Sales at Panopto, a venture-backed SaaS company, where he helped triple annual recurring revenue and supported a successful exit. He also held the role of Vice President of Global Sales at Comcast Technology Solutions, following its acquisition of the Platform. Mr. Kurtzman holds a bachelor’s degree in Speech Communications from University of Illinois. Role of Board in Risk Oversight One of the key functions of the Board is informed oversight of the Company’s risk management process. The Board does not currently have a standing risk management committee, but rather administers this oversight function directly through the Board as a whole, as well as through various standing committees of the Board that address risks inherent in their respective areas of oversight. In particular, the Board is responsible for monitoring and assessing strategic risk 56 exposure and the Company’s audit committee (the “Audit Committee”) has the responsibility to consider and discuss the Company’s major financial risk exposures and the steps its management will take to monitor and control such exposures, including guidelines and policies to govern the process by which risk assessment and management is undertaken. The Company’s audit committee also monitors compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. The Company’s compensation committee (the “Compensation Committee”) assesses and monitors whether the Company’s compensation plans, policies and programs comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements. Composition of the Board The Company’s business and affairs is managed under the direction of the Board. The Board currently consists of five members, with Joseph Davy serving as Chairman of the Board. The primary responsibilities of the Board are to provide oversight, strategic guidance, counseling, and direction to the Company’s management. The Board meets on a regular basis and additionally as required. In accordance with the terms of the Charter, the Board is divided into three classes, Class I, Class II and Class III, with only one class of directors being elected in each year and each class serving a three-year term. The Class I directors are elected to an initial one-year term (and three-year terms subsequently), the Class II directors are elected to an initial two-year term (and three-year terms subsequently) and the Class III directors are elected to an initial three-year term (and three-year terms subsequently). There is no cumulative voting with respect to the election of directors, with the result that the holders of more than 50% of the shares voted for the election of directors can elect all of the directors. The Board is divided into the following classes: ▪ Class I, which consists of Joseph Davy and Kent Schofield, whose terms will expire at the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2027; ▪ Class II, which consists of Mason Ward, whose term will expire at the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2028; and ▪ Class III, which consists of Paula Boggs and Jack Leeney, whose terms will expire at the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2026. At each annual meeting of stockholders, the successors to directors whose terms then expire will be elected to serve from the time of election and qualification until the third annual meeting following their election and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. This classification of the Board may have the effect of delaying or preventing changes in the Company’s control or management. Directors may be removed for cause by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 66 2/3% of the voting power of all outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company entitled to vote at an election of directors, voting together as a single class. Director Independence The Board has determined that each of our directors other than Mr. Davy qualify as independent directors, as defined under the listing rules of The Nasdaq Capital Market (the “Nasdaq listing rules”), and that the Board consists of a majority of “independent directors,” as defined under the rules of the SEC and Nasdaq listing rules relating to director independence requirements. Board Committees and Committee Composition The Board has three standing committees: the audit committee, the compensation committee and the nominating and corporate governance committee. Each committee operates under a written charter that has been approved by the Board and satisfies the applicable listing standards of Nasdaq. Written copies of these committee charters may be obtained by contacting our Investor Relations Department at 435 Ericksen Ave NE, Suite 250, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110. These documents are also available on the Corporate Governance section of our website at https://ir.banzai.io/corporate-governance/governance-overview . The Chair of each committee reviews and discusses the agendas and materials for meetings with senior management in advance of distribution to the other committee members, and reports to the Board on actions taken at each committee meeting. The following table sets forth the current membership of each committee. 57 Name Audit Committee Compensation Committee Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Joseph Davy Jack Leeney ☑ Mason Ward ☑ Chair ☑ Paula Boggs ☑ ☑ Chair Kent Schofield Chair Audit Committee The Audit Committee consists of Kent Schofield, who serves as the chairperson, Mason Ward, and Paula Boggs. Each member qualifies as an independent director under the Nasdaq corporate governance standards, and that each of Ms. Boggs and Mr. Schofield qualifies as independent under the independence requirements of Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange Act. In arriving at this determination, the Board examined each audit committee member’s scope of experience and the nature of their prior and/or current employment. The Board determined that Mr. Schofield qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” as such term is defined in Item 407(d)(5) of Regulation S-K and possesses financial sophistication, as defined under the rules of Nasdaq. In making this determination, the Board considered Mr. Schofield: understanding of generally accepted accounting principles and financial statements, ability to assess the general application of such principles in connection with the accounting for estimates, accruals and reserves; experience in actively supervising one or more persons engaged in preparing, auditing, analyzing or evaluating financial statements that present a breadth and level of complexity of accounting issues generally comparable to the breadth and complexity of issues that can reasonably be expected to be raised by the Company’s financial statements; understanding of internal control over financial reporting; and understanding of audit committee functions. We are relying on the phase-in exemption provided under Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange Act and the Nasdaq rules. While we believe Mr. Ward may be deemed to own in excess of 10% of our Common Stock, a class of voting securities, as of the date of this Report, which would leave him outside the safe harbor provision of SEC Rule 10A-3, Mr. Ward will serve on the Audit Committee under the phase-in exemption referenced above. In accordance with the phase-in exemption, we expect that a majority of the members of our Audit Committee will satisfy the independence standards under the Exchange Act and Nasdaq listing rules within 90 days of the closing of the Business Combination and all members of our Audit Committee will satisfy the independence standards under the Exchange Act and Nasdaq listing rules within 12 months of the Closing of the Business Combination. The primary purpose of the Audit Committee is to discharge the oversight responsibilities of the Board with respect to our corporate accounting and financial reporting processes, systems of internal control over financial reporting, and financial statement audits, as well as the quality and integrity of the financial statements and reports and to oversee the qualifications, independence, and performance of our independent registered public accounting firm. The Audit Committee also provides oversight assistance in connection with legal, risk, regulatory, and ethical compliance programs established by management and the Board. Specific responsibilities of the Audit Committee include: ▪ helping the Board oversee its corporate accounting and financial reporting processes; ▪ reviewing and discussing with management the adequacy and effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures; ▪ assisting with design and implementation of our risk assessment functions; ▪ managing the selection, engagement, qualifications, independence and performance of a qualified firm to serve as the independent registered public accounting firm to audit our financial statements; ▪ discussing the scope and results of the audit with the independent registered public accounting firm, and reviewing, with management and the independent accountants, our interim and year-end operating results; ▪ developing procedures for employees to submit concerns anonymously about questionable accounting or audit matters; ▪ reviewing related person transactions; 58 ▪ obtaining and reviewing a report by the independent registered public accounting firm at least annually that describes our internal quality control procedures, any material issues with such procedures and any steps taken to deal with such issues when required by applicable law; and ▪ approving or, as permitted, pre-approving, audit and permissible non-audit services to be performed by the independent registered public accounting firm. Compensation Committee The Compensation Committee consists of Mason Ward, who serves as the chairperson and Paula Boggs. Each member is independent under the listing standards of Nasdaq, and a “non-employee director” as defined in Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act. An additional member will be appointed in the near future. The primary purpose of the Compensation Committee will be to discharge the responsibilities of the Board in overseeing the Company’s compensation policies, plans, and programs and to review, approve, and/or recommend the compensation to be paid to its executive officers, directors, and other senior management, as appropriate. Specific responsibilities of the Compensation Committee include: ▪ reviewing and recommending to the Company’s Board the compensation of the Chief Executive Officer and other executive officers; ▪ reviewing and recommending to the Board the compensation of the Company’s directors; ▪ administering the Company’s equity incentive plans and other benefit programs; ▪ reviewing, adopting, amending and terminating incentive compensation and equity plans, severance agreements, profit sharing plans, bonus plans, change-of-control protections and any other compensatory arrangements for the Company’s executive officers and other senior management; ▪ reviewing and establishing general policies relating to compensation and benefits of the Company’s employees, including the Company’s overall compensation philosophy; and ▪ reviewing and evaluating with the Chief Executive Officer the succession plans for the Company’s executive officers. Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee consists of Paula Boggs, who serves as the chairperson, Jack Leeney and Mason Ward. Each member is independent under the listing standards of Nasdaq, which is discussed below. Specific responsibilities of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee include: ▪ identifying, reviewing, and evaluating candidates, including the nomination of incumbent directors for reelection and nominees recommended by stockholders, to serve on the Board; ▪ considering and making recommendations to the Board regarding the composition and chairmanship of the committees of the Board; ▪ reviewing with the Chief Executive Officer the plans for succession to the offices of the Company’s executive officers and make recommendations to the Board with respect to the selection of appropriate individuals to succeed to these positions; ▪ developing and making recommendations to the Board regarding corporate governance guidelines and matters; and ▪ overseeing periodic evaluations of the Board’s performance, including committees of the Board. Code of Business Conduct and Ethics We have a code of business conduct and ethics (the “Code of Conduct”) that applies to our directors, officers, and employees, including our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller, or persons performing similar functions. We will provide, without charge, a copy of our Code of Conduct upon written request mailed to the attention of our Investor Relations Department at 435 Ericksen Ave NE, Suite 250, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110. Our Code of Conduct is available under the Corporate Governance section of our website at 59 https://ir.banzai.io/corporate-governance/governance-overview .We will post on our website all disclosures that are required by law or the listing standards of Nasdaq concerning any amendments to, or waivers from, any provision of the Code of Conduct. The reference to our website address does not constitute incorporation by reference of the information contained at or available through our website, and you should not consider it to be a part of this Report. Limitation on Liability and Indemnification of Directors and Officers Our Charter eliminates each director’s liability for monetary damages for breaches of fiduciary duty as a director, except to the extent prohibited by law, unless a director violated his or her duty of loyalty to the Company or its stockholders, acted in bad faith, knowingly or intentionally violated the law, authorized unlawful payments of dividends, unlawful stock purchases or unlawful redemptions, or derived improper personal benefit from his or her actions as a director. The Charter eliminates directors’ liability for monetary damages to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. Our Charter requires the Company to indemnify and advance expenses to, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, its directors, officers, and agents and prohibit any retroactive changes to the rights or protections or increase the liability of any director in effect at the time of the alleged occurrence of any act or omission to act giving rise to liability or indemnification. We believe these provisions in our Charter are necessary to attract and retain qualified persons as directors and officers. However, these provisions may discourage stockholders from bringing a lawsuit against our directors for breach of their fiduciary duty. These provisions also may have the effect of reducing the likelihood of derivative litigation against directors and officers, even though such an action, if successful, might otherwise benefit us and our stockholders. Furthermore, a stockholder’s investment may be adversely affected to the extent we pay the costs of settlement and damage awards against directors and officers pursuant to these indemnification provisions. Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires our directors, executive officers, and beneficial owners of more than 10% of our common stock to file reports with the SEC indicating their holdings of, and transactions in, Banzai’s equity securities. Based solely on a review of copies of these reports, we believe that other than the report listed below, all of our executive officers, directors, and 10% owners timely complied with all Section 16(a) filing requirements in 2025. Mr. Ditto filed his Form 3 late, but as of the date of this Report it has been filed. Additionally, the following directors and officers were late filing his/her respective Form 4: Joseph Davy, Simon Baumer, Jack Leeney, Mason Ward, Paula Boggs, and Kent Schofield. Item 11. Executive Compensation. Our named executive officers for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, consisting of our principal executive officer, principal financial officer and the next two most highly compensated executive officers, were: ▪ Joseph Davy, our Chief Executive Officer; ▪ Dean Ditto, our Chief Financial Officer; ▪ Simon Baumer, our Chief Technology Officer; and ▪ Michael Kurtzman, our Chief Revenue Officer. 60 2025 Summary Compensation Table The following table presents the compensation paid or awarded to our named executive officers for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024: Name and Principal Position Year Salary ($) Bonus ($) Stock Awards ($) Option Awards ($) Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation ($) Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings ($) All Other Compensation ($) Total ($) Joseph Davy – Chief Executive Officer 2025 $ 350,000 $ — $ 375,700 (1) $ — $ 125,000 (1) $ — $ 8,437 (1) $ 859,137 Joseph Davy – Chief Executive Officer 2024 310,417 — 500,000 (2) 29,700 (3) — — 12,000 (4) 852,117 Simon Baumer – Chief Technology Officer 2025 325,000 — 148,635 (5) — 18,750 (6) — 250 (7) 492,635 Simon Baumer – Chief Technology Officer 2024 291,223 — — 7,425 (3) — — — 298,648 Dean Ditto – Chief Financial Officer (8) 2025 128,125 — 100,000 (5) — 25,000 (6) — 10,042 (9) 263,167 Alvin Yip – former Interim Chief Financial Officer (8) 2025 241,500 (10) — 148,635 (5) — 12,500 (6) — 270 (11) 402,905 Alvin Yip – former Interim Chief Financial Officer (8) 2024 220,833 — 50,000 (2) 10,455 (3) — — — 281,288 Michael Kurtzman – Chief Revenue Officer (12) 2025 154,375 56,250 (13) 225,000 (5) — — — 250 (7) 435,875 Mark Musburger – former Chief Financial Officer (14) 2024 106,714 — — — — — 125,000 (15) 231,714 Ashley Levesque – former Vice President of Marketing (16) 2024 78,750 — — — — — 3,150 (4) 81,900 61 (1) The Stock Awards amount includes the aggregate grant date fair value of an equity award with market conditions to Mr. Davy during the year ended December 31, 2025 under the 2023 Equity Incentive Plan determined in accordance with ASC Topic 718. See Note 16 – Stock-Based Compensation to our consolidated financial statements included in this Report. These amounts do not reflect the actual economic value that may be realized by the named executive officer. The Non-Equity Incentive Compensation Plan described in "2025 Bonuses" below. The All Other Compensation amount consists of Company-match 401(k) plan contributions of $8,167, a home office stipend of $250, and a miscellaneous bonus of $20. (2) These amounts include the aggregate grant date fair value of RSU awards to our named executive officers during the year ended December 31, 2024 under the 2023 Equity Incentive Plan (Mr. Davy: $500,000; Mr. Yip: $50,000) determined in accordance with ASC Topic 718. See Note 16 – Stock-Based Compensation to our consolidated financial statements included in this Report. These amounts do not reflect the actual economic value that may be realized by the named executive officer. (3) The amounts include the aggregate grant date fair value of stock options granted to our named executive officers during the year ended December 31, 2024 under the 2023 Equity Incentive Plan (Mr. Davy: $29,700; Mr. Baumer: $7,425; and Mr. Yip: $10,455) determined in accordance with ASC Topic 718. See Note 16 – Stock-Based Compensation to our consolidated financial statements included in this Report. These amounts do not reflect the actual economic value that may be realized by the named executive officer. (4) Consists of Company-match 401(k) plan contributions. (5) These amounts consist of the aggregate grant date fair value of RSU awards to our named executive officers during the year ended December 31, 2025 under the 2023 Equity Incentive Plan (Mr. Baumer: $148,635; Mr. Ditto: $100,000; Mr. Kurtzman: $225,000; and Mr. Yip: $148,635) determined in accordance with ASC Topic 718. Note 16 – Stock-Based Compensation to our consolidated financial statements included in this Report. These amounts do not reflect the actual economic value that may be realized by the named executive officer. (6) Consists of annual cash incentive bonuses, as further described in "2025 Bonuses." (7) Consists of home office stipend. (8) On July 2, 2025, Mr. Ditto was appointed as our Chief Financial Officer, as further described in "2025 Compensation Update." Mr. Ditto replaced Mr. Yip who had served as our interim Chief Financial Officer since June 14, 2024. (9) This amount consists of Company-match 401(k) plan contributions of $5,042 and a temporary housing allowance of $5,000. (10) In December 2024, the Board approved increasing Mr. Yip's salary to $241,500 per year, effective as of January 1, 2025. (11) Consists of a home office stipend of $250, and a miscellaneous bonus of $20. (12) On June 16, 2025, Mr. Kurtzman was appointed as our Chief Revenue Officer, as further described in "2025 Compensation Update." (13) Consists of the guaranteed portion of an annual cash incentive bonus, as further described in "2025 Bonuses." (14) On June 5, 2024, Mark Musburger resigned from his position as Chief Financial Officer. (15) Consists of a retention bonus paid in 2024. (16) On May 29, 2024, Ashley Levesque resigned from her position as Vice President of Marketing. Narrative Disclosure to Summary Compensation Table 2025 Compensation Update In connection with Mr. Ditto’s appointment as Chief Financial Officer in July 2025, the Company and Mr. Ditto entered into an employment offer letter (the "Ditto Offer Letter"), effective July 2, 2025. Pursuant to the Ditto Offer Letter, Mr. Ditto (i) is entitled to receive an annual salary of $275,000 per annum; and (ii) will be eligible to receive an annual incentive cash bonus of $100,000, subject to the achievement of certain goals, the specifics of which were to be agreed upon at a later date. In addition to his annual salary, the Board approved an award of RSUs equivalent to $100,000. The RSUs will vest quarterly and the last ¼ will become fully vested 12 months after they are approved by the Board. The equity will be subject to the terms and conditions of the Company’s 2023 Equity Incentive Plan. In connection with Mr. Kurtzman’s appointment as Chief Revenue Officer in June 2025, the Company and Mr. Kurtzman entered into an employment offer letter (the "Kurtzman Offer Letter"), effective May 16, 2025. Pursuant to the Kurtzman Offer Letter, Mr. Kurtzman (i) is entitled to receive an annual salary of $285,000 per annum; and (ii) will be eligible to receive an annual incentive cash bonus of $225,000, of which, $56,250 is guaranteed, and the remainder of which is subject to the achievement of certain goals, the specifics of which were to be agreed upon at a later date. In addition to his annual salary, the Board approved an award of RSUs equivalent to $225,000. The RSUs will vest quarterly 62 and the last ¼ will become fully vested 12 months after they are approved by the Board. The equity will be subject to the terms and conditions of the Company’s 2023 Equity Incentive Plan. 2025 Bonuses In addition to base salaries, our named executive officers are eligible to receive annual performance-based cash bonuses, which are designed to provide appropriate incentives to our employees to achieve defined performance goals. During 2025, Mr. Davy earned an annual incentive bonus of $125,000 that was paid in stock, and Mr. Ditto and Mr. Baumer earned annual incentive cash bonuses of $25,000 and $18,750, respectively. Mr. Kurtzman earned the guaranteed portion of his annual incentive cash bonus of $56,250. None of our named executive officers received annual performance-based cash bonuses with respect to the year ended December 31, 2024. Equity Grants To further align the interests of our executive officers with the interests of our stockholders and to further focus our executive officers on our long-term performance, we grant equity compensation in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs) and stock options. During the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company granted RSUs. Each RSU entitles the recipient to one share of Class A Common Stock upon vesting. RSU awards vest 25% quarterly over a period of one year, subject to the named executive officer’s continued service at each vesting date. The Company measures the fair value of RSUs using the stock price on the date of grant. During 2025, the Company granted Mr. Davy an equity award that includes a market condition based on specified market capitalization thresholds at $15.0 million, $20 million, $25 million and $30.0 million, which result in tranches of stock grants of $250 thousand, $500 thousand, $500 thousand and $750 thousand, respectively, up to $2.0 million in the aggregate ("CEO Award") which had a grant date fair value of $375,700. Mr. Baumer, Mr. Ditto and Mr. Kurtzman were granted 9,709 RSUs, 32,362 RSUs, and 72,815 RSUs, which had a grant date fair value of $148,635, $100,000, and $225,000, respectively. During 2024, the Company granted Mr. Davy and Mr. Yip 30,488 RSUs and 3,289 RSUs, which had a grant date fair value of $500,000 and $50,000, respectively. Historically, the Company granted stock options. Stock options allow the holder to exercise the stock option and receive shares upon exercise, with the exercise price determined based on the fair market value of a share of common stock at the time of grant. The stock options granted to our named executive officers vested or will vest in a 25% increment on the one-year anniversary of the vesting commencement date and thereafter 1/48 th of the total shares underlying the option award vests in 36 equal monthly installments, subject to the named executive officer’s continued service at each vesting date. During 2024, the Company granted Mr. Davy, Mr. Baumer, and Mr. Yip 1,200 stock options, 300 stock options, and 8 stock options, which had a grant date fair value of $29,700, $43,433, and $95,074, respectively. 63 Outstanding Equity Awards as of December 31, 2025 The following table presents the outstanding equity incentive plan awards held by each named executive officer as of December 31, 2025: Option Awards (1) Stock Awards (2) Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options Exercisable Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options Unexercisable (3) Options Exercise Prices Option Number of Shares or Units of Stock That Have Not Vested Market Value of Shares or Units of Stock That Have Not Vested Equity Incentive Plan Awards: Number of Unearned Shares, Units or Other Rights That Have Not Been Issued Equity Incentive Plan Awards: Market or Payout Value of Unearned Shares, Units or Other Rights That Have Not Been Issued Name # # $ Expiration Date # $ # $ Joseph Davy 79 121 500 5/14/2034 158 242 1,000 5/14/2034 237 363 2,500 5/14/2034 — — — 375,700 (4) Simon Baumer 62 — 1,410 7/14/2031 60 2 1,385 2/15/2032 46 16 4,190 3/1/2033 19 31 500 5/14/2034 39 61 1,000 5/14/2034 59 91 2,500 5/14/2034 — — 2,428 (5) 2,345 Dean Ditto — — 24,272 (6) 23,439 Michael Kurtzman — — 36,408 (7) 35,159 Alvin Yip 14 11 4,190 12/2/2033 7 12 147 5/14/2034 — — 45 (8) 43 — — 2,428 (9) 2,345 (1) Each of the Option Awards was granted under the 2016 Plan or the 2023 Equity Incentive Plan. (2) Each of the Stock Awards was granted under the 2023 Equity Incentive Plan. (3) 25% of the total shares underlying the option award vest on the one-year anniversary of the vesting commencement date, thereafter 1/48th of the total shares underlying the option award vest in 36 equal monthly installments, subject to continued employment at each vesting date. (4) The CEO Award will vest into common stock in 4 tranches ranging from $250 thousand to $750 thousand, up to $2.0 million in the aggregate, if specified market capitalization thresholds ranging from $15.0 million to $30.0 million are met. (5) The RSUs vest quarterly commencing with the January 1, 2025 grant date, and the last ¼ will become fully vested in January 2026, subject to continued employment through the applicable vesting dates. (6) The RSUs vest quarterly commencing with the July 14, 2025 grant date, and the last ¼ will become fully vested in July 2026, subject to continued employment through the applicable vesting dates. (7) The RSUs vest quarterly commencing with the August 22, 2025 grant date, and the last ¼ will become fully vested in June 2026, subject to continued employment through the applicable vesting dates. (8) The RSUs vest annually commencing with the May 14, 2024 grant date, and the last ¼ will become fully vested in May 2028, subject to continued employment through the applicable vesting dates. (9) The RSUs vest quarterly commencing with the January 1, 2025 grant date, and the last ¼ will become fully vested in January 2026, subject to continued employment through the applicable vesting dates. 64 Additional Narrative Disclosure 401(k) Plan We maintain a 401(k) plan that provides eligible U.S. employees with an opportunity to save for retirement on a tax advantaged basis. Eligible employees are able to defer eligible compensation up to certain Code limits, which are updated annually. We make employer contributions under the 401(k) plan and also have the ability to make employer profit sharing contributions to the 401(k) plan. The 401(k) plan is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code, with the related trust intended to be tax exempt under Section 501(a) of the Code. As a tax-qualified retirement plan, contributions to the 401(k) plan are deductible by us when made, and contributions and earnings on those amounts are not generally taxable to the employees until withdrawn or distributed from the 401(k) plan. Non-Employee Director Compensation The Board reviews director compensation periodically to ensure that director compensation remains competitive such that the Company is able to recruit and retain qualified directors. In January 2026, the Board approved compensation for the 4 non-employee directors for the year ended December 31, 2025 of $327,595 in the form of 216,950 RSUs. In December 2024, the 4 non-employee directors received compensation of $371,507 in the form of 30,049 RSUs. In December 2023, the Company adopted a board of directors’ compensation program that is designed to align compensation with the Company’s business objectives and the creation of stockholder value, while enabling the Company to attract, retain, incentivize, and reward directors who contribute to the long-term success of the Company. Under that program, our non-employee directors are eligible to receive the following: ▪ Annual base retainer of $100,000, to be paid as determined by the Compensation Committee; ▪ Committee Chair Retainers: Audit Committee, $10,000; Compensation Committee, $5,000; and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, $5,000. ▪ Committee Member Retainers: Audit Committee, $5,000; Compensation Committee, $2,500; and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, $2,500. Our non-employee directors are also reimbursed for their reasonable out-of-pocket travel expenses to cover in-person attendance at and participation in Board and committee meetings. Disclosure of Policies and Practices Related to the Grant of Certain Equity Awards Close in Time to the Release of Material Nonpublic Information. Disclosure of Registrant's Action to Recover Erroneously Awarded Compensation In response to Item 402(w) of Regulation S-K, there was no time during or after the last completed fiscal year that the Company was required to either prepare an accounting restatement that required recovery of erroneously awarded compensation pursuant to the Company’s compensation recovery policy, or had an outstanding balance as of the end of the last completed fiscal year of erroneously awarded compensation to be recovered from the application of the policy to a prior restatement. Rule 10b5-1 Sales Plans Our directors and executive officers may adopt written plans, known as Rule 10b5-1 plans, in which they will contract with a broker to buy or sell shares of our common stock on a periodic basis. Under a Rule 10b5-1 plan, a broker executes trades pursuant to parameters established by the director or executive officer when entering into the plan, without further direction from them. The director or executive officer may amend a Rule 10b5-1 plan in some circumstances and may terminate a plan at any time. Our directors and executive officers also may buy or sell additional shares outside of a Rule 10b5-1 plan when they are not in possession of material nonpublic information, subject to compliance with the terms of our insider trading policy. The sale of any shares under such a plan will be subject to the Lock-Up Agreements, to the extent that the selling director or executive officer is a party thereto. 2025 Policies and Practices Related to the Grant of Certain Equity Awards In response to Item 402(x)(1) of Regulation S-K, the Company does not currently grant new awards of stock options, stock appreciation rights, or similar option-like instruments within four business days before or one business day after the 65 release of a Form 10-Q, 10-K, or 8-K that discloses material nonpublic information (MNPI) . Accordingly, the Company has no specific policy or practice on the timing of awards of such options in relation to the disclosure of material nonpublic information by the Company. In the event the Company determines to grant new awards of such options, the Board will evaluate the appropriate steps to take in relation to the foregoing. 66 Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters. Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans The following table summarizes our equity securities authorized for issuance as of December 31, 2025. Plan Category Number of Securities To Be Issued Upon Exercise of Outstanding Options, Warrants and Rights (a) Weighted Average Exercise Price of Outstanding Options, Warrants and Rights (b) Number of Securities Remaining Available for Future Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans (excluding securities reflected in column (a)) (c) (1) Equity compensation plans approved by shareholders 12,494 $ 1,577.59 487,510 Equity compensation plans not approved by shareholders — — — Total 12,494 $ 1,577.59 487,510 (1) Includes 486,366 shares available pursuant to our 2023 Equity Incentive Plan and 1,144 shares available pursuant to our Employee Stock Purchase Plan. The total number of securities remaining available for future issuance indicated above reflects the expansion of shares available under the 2023 EIP Plan, to 1,000,000 shares, which Banzai’s shareholders approved on February 28, 2025. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management The following table sets forth information regarding the beneficial ownership of shares of our Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock as of the date hereof for: ▪ each person known to us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our outstanding shares of Common Stock; ▪ each of our named executive officers; ▪ each of our directors; and ▪ all directors and named executive officers as a group. Beneficial ownership of our Common Stock is determined in accordance with the rules of the SEC and generally includes voting and investment power with respect to the securities. Except as otherwise provided by footnote, and subject to applicable community property laws, the persons named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of Common Stock shown as beneficially owned by them. The number of shares of Common Stock used to calculate the percentage ownership of each listed person includes the shares of Common Stock underlying options or warrants or convertible securities held by such persons that are currently exercisable or convertible within 60 days of the date hereof, but are not treated as outstanding for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person. Beneficial ownership as set forth below is based on our review of our record stockholders list and public ownership reports filed by certain stockholders of the Company and may not include certain securities held in brokerage accounts or beneficially owned by the stockholders described below. The percentage of beneficial ownership is based on 16,947,708 shares of Class A Common Stock and 607,998 shares of Class B Common Stock outstanding as of March 27, 2026. 67 Class A Common Stock Class B Common Stock Total Voting Power Name and Address of Beneficial Owner † Shares % Shares % % †† Directors and Named Executive Officers Joseph Davy (1) 31,087 * 607,998 100.0 % 26.5 % Paula Boggs (2) 7,673 * — * * Jack Leeney (3) 6,998 * — * * Kent Schofield (4) 9,645 * — * * Mason Ward (5) 8,223 * — * * Dean Ditto (6) 52,108 * — * * Simon Baumer (7) 46,201 (2) * — * * All Directors and Executive Officers of the Company as a Group (7 Individuals) 161,935 * 607,998 100.0 % 27.1 % Five Percent or Greater Holders CP BF Lending, LLC (8) 2,682,074 15.8 % — * 11.6 % FE IV OR Aggregator, LLC (9) 1,226,624 7.2 % — * 5.3 % * Less than 1%. † Unless otherwise noted, the business address of each of the following persons is c/o Banzai International, Inc., 435 Ericksen Ave NE, Suite 250, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110. †† Each share of Common Stock entitles its holders to one vote per share; each share of Class B Common Stock entitles its holder to ten votes on all matters presented to our stockholders generally. As a result, percentage of voting power is based on 23,027,688 total votes. (1) Consists of 30,488 shares of Class A Common Stock, 607,998 shares of Class B Common Stock, and options to purchase 599 shares of Class A Common Stock exercisable within 60 days of March 27, 2026 held directly by Joseph Davy. (2) Consists of 7,673 shares of Class A Common Stock held directly by Paula Boggs. (3) Consists of 6,998 shares of Class A Common Stock held directly by Jack Leeney. (4) Consists of 9,645 shares of Class A Common Stock held directly by Kent Schofield. (5) Consists of 8,223 shares of Class A Common Stock and warrants to purchase 706 shares of Class A Common Stock held directly by Mason Ward. (6) Consists of 9,856 shares of Class A Common Stock held directly by Dean Ditto, and 42,252 RSUs that will vest into shares of Class A Common Stock within 60 days of March 27, 2026. (7) Consists of 9,709 shares of Class A Common Stock held directly by Simon Baumer, 36,167 RSUs that will vest into shares of Class A Common Stock within 60 days of March 27, 2026, and options to purchase 325 shares of Class A Common Stock exercisable within 60 days of March 27, 2026. (8) Columbia Pacific Advisors may be deemed to beneficially own the securities held by CP BF Lending, LLC because they are the controlling members of the Board of Managers of Columbia Pacific Advisors, LLC. Columbia Pacific Advisors LLC is the manager of CP Business Finance GP, LLC, the manager of CP BF Lending, LLC. The address of CP BF Lending, LLC is 1910 Fairview Ave. E., Suite 300, Seattle, WA 98102. (9) Includes (i) 49,996 shares of Class A common stock held by FE IV OR Aggregator, LLC (“FE Aggregator”) and (ii) 1,176,628 shares of Class A common stock issuable upon the exercise of Pre-Funded Warrants held by FE Aggregator. FE Aggregator’s right to exercise Pre-Funded Warrants at any particular time is subject to the Beneficial Ownership Limitation described above, however, for purposes of the second column of the above table, all shares of Class A common stock underlying the Pre-Funded Warrants have been included. As the manager, of FE Aggregator, Frederick N. Coulson, IV may be deemed to have voting and dispositive power over the shares of Class A common stock held by FE Aggregator. The address of FE Aggregator and Mr. Coulson is 4801 Main Street, Suite 700, Kansas City, MO 64112. Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence. Related Party Transactions The information required by Item 404 of Regulation S-K is incorporated herein by reference to Notes 5 and 12 to the consolidated financial statements of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Except as disclosed in such notes, no director, executive officer, shareholder holding at least 5% of shares of our common stock, or any family member thereof, had any material interest, direct or indirect, in any transaction, or proposed transaction since January 1, 2024, in which the amount 68 involved in the transaction exceeds the lesser of $120,000 or one percent of the average of our total assets at the year-end for the last two completed fiscal years. Related Person Transactions Policy The Company is in the process of formally adopting a written related person transactions policy. The Board has historically identified, reviewed and approved any transactions, arrangements or relationships (or any series of similar transactions, arrangements or relationships) in Banzai or any of its subsidiaries and related persons are, were or would be participants, including the transactions described above. Prior to approving such a transaction, the material facts as to a director or officer’s relationship or interest in the agreement or transaction were disclosed to the Board. Under the policy, a related person is any executive officer, director, nominee to become a director or a security holder known by us to beneficially own more than 5% of any class of our voting securities (a “significant stockholder”), including any of their immediate family members and affiliates, including entities controlled by such persons or such person has a 5% or greater beneficial ownership interest. Each director and executive officer shall identify, and we shall request each significant stockholder to identify, any related person transaction involving such director, executive officer or significant stockholder or his, her or its immediate family members and inform the Chair of our Audit Committee pursuant to this policy before such related person may engage in the transaction. Each related person transaction must be reviewed and approved in accordance with our related party transactions policy either by the Audit Committee or, if the Audit Committee determines that the approval of such related party transaction should be considered by all of the disinterested, independent members of the Board, by the disinterested, independent members of the Board by the vote of a majority thereof. In considering related person transactions, our Audit Committee or the disinterested, independent members of the Board, as the case may be, take into account the relevant available facts and circumstances, which may include, but are not limited to: ▪ the size of the transaction and the amount payable to a related party; ▪ the nature of the interest of the related party in the transaction; ▪ whether the transaction may involve a conflict of interest; ▪ whether the transaction involves the provision of goods or services to the Company that are available from unaffiliated third parties and, if so, whether the transaction is on terms and made under circumstances that are at least as favorable to the Company as would be available in comparable transactions with or involving unaffiliated third parties; and ▪ any other information regarding the related party transaction or related party that would be material to investors in light of the circumstances of the transaction. Our Audit Committee or the disinterested, independent members of the Board, as the case may be, shall approve only those related party transactions that they determine in good faith, based on all of the relevant information available to them, are in the best interests of the Company and our stockholders. Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services. Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm Fees for professional services provided by our independent registered public accounting firms Bush & Associates CPA LLC for the year ended December 31, 2025, and Marcum LLP for the year ended December 31, 2024, are as follows: Year Ended December 31, ($ in Thousands) 2025 2024 Audit fees (1) $ 336 $ 770 Audit-related fees (2) — — Tax fees — — All other fees — — Total $ 336 $ 770 69 (1) Audit fees consist of fees for professional services rendered for the audit of our year-end financial statements and services rendered in connection with our statutory and regulatory filings. (2) Audit-related services consist of fees for assurance and related services that are reasonably related to performance of the audit or review of our financial statements and are not reported under “Audit Fees.” These services include attest services that are not required by statute or regulation and consultations concerning financial accounting and reporting standards. Pre-Approval Policy Except as permitted under federal law and SEC rules, all audit and non-audit services performed by our auditors must be pre-approved by the Audit Committee, including the fees and terms thereof (subject to the de minimis exceptions for non-audit services described in the Exchange Act which are approved by the audit committee prior to the completion of the audit). All services reflected in the foregoing table were pre-approved by the Audit Committee in 2025 and 2024. 70 PART IV Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules. (1) Financial Statements: Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID: 6797) Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID: 688) Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2025 and 2024 Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Deficit for the Years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (2) Financial Statements Schedules: (3) All financial statement schedules have been omitted because they are not applicable, not required or the information required is shown in the financial statements or the notes thereto. (4) Exhibits: The following is a list of exhibits filed as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Item 16. Form 10-K Summary. Not applicable. 71 Exhibit Index Exhibit Number Description 2.1+ Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated December 8, 2022, by and among Banzai, 7GC, First Merger Sub and Second Merger Sub (incorporated by reference to Annex A-1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on August 31, 2023). 2.2 Amendment to Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated August 4, 2023, by and among the Company and 7GC (incorporated by reference to Annex A-2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on August 31, 2023). 2.3 Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated December 10, 2024, by and among Banzai International, Inc., Banzai Reel Acquisition, Inc. ClearDoc, Inc., and certain stockholders of ClearDoc, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 19, 2024). 2.4 Acquisition Agreement, dated December 19, 2024, by and among Banzai International, Inc., Vidello Limited, and the Shareholders of Vidello Limited (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 20, 2024). 2.5 Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated January 22, 2025 by and between Banzai International, Inc. and Act-On Software, Inc. (incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 23, 2025) 3.1 Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, dated December 14, 2023. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 20, 2023). 3.2 Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, dated December 14, 2023 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 20, 2023). 3.3 Third Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, dated March 3, 2025 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 4, 2025). 3.4 Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, dated September 11, 2024. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 16, 2024). 3.5 Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, dated March 3, 2025. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 4, 2025). 3.6 Form of Senior Secured Convertible Note (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 3, 2025). 3.7 Fourth Amended and Restated Bylaws (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 17, 2025). 4.1 Specimen Class A Common Stock Certificate of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 20, 2023). 4.2 Specimen Class B Common Stock Certificate of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 20, 2023). 4.3 Specimen Warrant Certificate of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 20, 2023). 4.4 Warrant Agreement, dated December 22, 2020, by and between 7GC and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as warrant agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by 7GC on December 28, 2020). 4.5 Amended and Restated Convertible Promissory Note, by and among Banzai and CP BF Lending, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.7 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed by 7GC on August 30, 2023). 4.6 Subordinated Promissory Note, dated December 13, 2023, issued by the Company to Alco Investment Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.5 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 20, 2023). 4.7 Warrant to Purchase Shares of Common Stock of Banzai International, Inc., dated December 15, 2023, issued by the Company to GEM Yield Bahamas Limited (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.7 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 20, 2023). 4.8 Promissory Note, dated as of December 14, 2023, issued by Banzai International, Inc. to YA II PN, LTD (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 18, 2023) . 4.9 Promissory Note, dated as of February 5, 2024, issued by Banzai International, Inc. to YA II PN, LTD (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.11 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed on February 5, 2024). 72 4.10 Promissory Note Agreement, dated as of March 26, 2024, issued by Banzai International, Inc. to YA II PN, LTD (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.10 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on April 15, 2025). 4.11* Description of Securities. 4.12 Certificate of Designation of Series FE Preferred Stock (incorporated by reference to the 8-K filed on December 19, 2024). 4.13 Form of Senior Secured Convertible Note (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 3, 2025). 4.14 Form of Warrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 3, 2025). 10.1 Letter Agreement, dated December 22, 2020, by and among 7GC, its officers, its directors and the 7GC Sponsor (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by 7GC on December 28, 2020). 10.2 Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement, dated December 22, 2020, by and between 7GC and the 7GC Sponsor (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by 7GC on December 15, 2020). 10.3 Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated December 14, 2023, by and among the Company, the 7GC Sponsor, certain stockholders of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 20, 2023). 10.4 Form of Lock-Up Agreement, by and between the Company and certain stockholders and executives of Legacy Banzai (incorporated by reference to Annex D to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on August 31, 2023). 10.5# Banzai International, Inc. 2023 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed on March 25, 2024). 10.6# Banzai International, Inc. 2023 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed on March 25, 2024). 10.7 Loan Agreement, dated February 19, 2021, by and among the Company, Joseph P. Davy as an Individual Guarantor, Demio, Inc., as an Individual Guarantor and CP BF Lending, LLC, as Lender (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.16 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed by 7GC on August 30, 2023). 10.8 Forbearance Agreement, dated August 24, 2023, by and among the Company, the guarantors party to the Loan Agreement (as defined therein), and CP BF Lending, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.18 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed by 7GC on August 30, 2023). 10.9 Promissory Note, dated October 3, 2023, issued by 7GC to the 7GC Sponsor (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by 7GC on October 4, 2023). 10.10 Standby Equity Purchase Agreement, dated as of December 14, 2023, by and among the Company, YA II PN, LTD., and Banzai Operating Co LLC (f/k/a Banzai International, Inc.). (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 18, 2023). 10.11 Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of December 14, 2023, by and between the Company and YA II PN, LTD. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 18, 2023). 10.12 Share Transfer Agreement, dated December 13, 2023, by and among the Company, the 7GC Sponsor and Alco Investment Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 20, 2023). 10.13# Form of Indemnification Agreement by and between the Company and its directors and officers (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 20, 2023). 10.14 Settlement Agreement, dated February 5, 2024, by and between the Company, GEM Global Yield LLC SCS and GEM Yield Bahamas Limited (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.27 of Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed on February 5, 2024). 10.15 Unsecured Promissory Note, dated February 5, 2024, issued by the Company to GEM Global Yield LLC SCS (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 8 ,2024). 10.16 Supplemental Agreement, dated February 5, 2024, by and between the Company and YA II PN, LTD (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.29 of Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed on February 5, 2024). 10.17 Form of Convertible Promissory Note issued to YA II PN, LTD (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 3, 2025). 73 10.18 Second Amendment to Loan Agreement by and among the Company, Demio Holding Inc., Banzai Operating Co. LLC and CP BF Lending, LLC, as Lender dated as of September 23, 2024 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.19 to the Current Report on Form 8-K/A filed on September 27, 2024). 10.19 Debt Repayment Agreement, dated as of May 3, 2024, by and among the Company and Yorkville (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 16, 2024). 10.20 Amended and Restated Debt Repayment Agreement, dated as of May 22, 2024, by and between the Company and Yorkville (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.12 to the Registration Statement filed on Form S-1 on September 19, 2024). 10.21 Form of Securities Purchase Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 28, 2024). 10.22 Form of Securities Purchase Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 27, 2024). 10.23 Lock-up Agreement, dated as of September 20, 2024, by and between Banzai International, Inc. and Alco Investment Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.21 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 25, 2024). 10.24 Form of Registration Rights Agreement, by and between Banzai International, Inc. and Alco Investment Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.20 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 25, 2024). 10.25 Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of September 23, 2024, by and between Banzai International, Inc. and CP BF Lending, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.17 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 25, 2024). 10.26 Lock-up Agreement, dated as of September 23, 2024, by and between Banzai International, Inc. and CP BF Lending, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.25 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 25, 2024). 10.27 Form of Registration Rights Agreement, by and between Banzai International, Inc. and CP BF Lending, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.24 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 25, 2024). 10.28 Form of Registration Rights Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 27, 2024). 10.29 Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of September 20, 2024, by and between Banzai International, Inc. and Alco Investment Company (incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the SEC on October 16, 2024) . 10.30 Side Letter to the Loan Agreement with CP BF Lending, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 25, 2024). 10.31 Floor Price Adjustment Agreement with Yorkville Advisors (incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the SEC on October 16, 2024). 10.32 Consulting Agreement dated as of September 26, 2024 by and between the Company and Hudson Global Ventures, LLC (incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the SEC on October 16, 2024). 10.33 Form of Registration Rights Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 10, 2024). 10.34 Form of Pre-Funded Warrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 10, 2024). 10.35 Form of Subscription Booklet (incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 23, 2025) 10.36 Form of Pre-Funded Warrant (incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 23, 2025) 10.37 Voting and Support Agreement, dated January 22, 2025 by and between Banzai International, Inc and Joseph Davy (incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 23, 2025). 10.38 Form of Share Consideration Escrow Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 23, 2025). 10.39 Form of Registration Rights Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 23, 2025). 10.40 Voting and Support Agreement, dated December 10, 2024, by and between Joseph P. Davy and Banzai International Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 10, 2024). 10.41 Form of Lock-Up Agreement (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 20, 2024). 74 10.42 Form of Pre-Funded Warrant (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 20, 2024). 10.43 Voting and Support Agreement, dated December 19, 2024, by and between Banzai International Inc., and Joseph P. Davy (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.3 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 20, 2024). 10.44 Closing Letter Agreement, dated January 24, 2025, by and among Banzai International, Inc., Vidello Limited and certain shareholders of Vidello Limited (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.3 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 31, 2025). 10.45 Subordinated Business Loan and Security Agreement dated March 31, 2025, by and between Banzai International, Inc., Agile Capital Funding, LLC, and Agile Lending, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on April 11, 2025). 10.46 Subordinated Secured Promissory Note dated March 31, 2025, by and between Banzai International, Inc., Agile Capital Funding, LLC, and Agile Lending, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on April 11, 2025). 10.47 Form of Securities Purchase Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 3, 2025). 10.48 Form of Registration Rights Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 3, 2025). 10.49 Form of Leak-Out Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 3, 2025). 10.50 At-The-Market Offering Agreement by and between Banzai International, Inc. and H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 27, 2025). 10.51 Side Letter to the Loan Agreement, dated October 10, 2025, by and among Banzai International, Inc. and CP BF Lending, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 17, 2025). 10.52 Amendment to Side Letter to the Loan Agreement, dated October 15, 2025, by and among Banzai International, Inc. and CP BF Lending, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 17, 2025). 10.53 Exchange Agreement, dated December 15, 2025, by and among Banzai International, Inc., Agile Capital Funding, LLC, and Agile Lending, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 17, 2025). 10.54 Forbearance Agreement, dated December 15, 2025, by and among Banzai International, Inc., Agile Capital Funding, LLC, and Agile Lending, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 17, 2025). 19.1 Banzai International, Inc. Insider Trading Policy (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 19.1 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on April 15, 2025). 21.1* List of Subsidiaries. 23.1* Consent of Marcum, LLP. 31.1* Certification of Principal Executive Officer Pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. 31.2* Certification of Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. 32.1** Certification of Principal Executive Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. 32.2** Certification of Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. 97.1 Banzai International, Inc. Policy on Recoupment of Incentive Compensation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 97.1 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on April 15, 2025). 101.INS Inline XBRL Instance Document – the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document. 101.SCH Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema With Embedded Linkbase Documents 104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) * Filed herewith. ** Furnished herewith. + The schedules and exhibits to this agreement have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K. A copy of any omitted schedule and/or exhibit will be furnished to the SEC upon request. # Indicates management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement. 75 Item 16. Form 10-K Summary Not applicable. 76 SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized . BANZAI INTERNATIONAL, INC. Date: March 31, 2026 By: /s/ Joseph Davy Joseph Davy Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, this Report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant in the capacities and on the dates indicated. Name Title Date /s/ Joseph Davy Chief Executive Officer and Director March 31, 2026 Joseph Davy (Principal Executive Officer) /s/ Dean Ditto Chief Financial Officer March 31, 2026 Dean Ditto (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer) /s/ Paula Boggs Director March 31, 2026 Paula Boggs /s/ Jack Leeney Director March 31, 2026 Jack Leeney /s/ Mason Ward Director March 31, 2026 Mason Ward 77 INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID: 6797 ) F- 1 Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID: 688 ) F- 4 Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2025 and 2024 F- 5 Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 F- 6 Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit) for the Years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 F- 7 Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 F- 9 Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements F- 12 REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM To the Board of Directors and Stockholders, Banzai International, Inc. OPINION ON THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Banzai International, Inc. (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2025, and the related statements of operations, change in stockholders’ deficit, and cash flows for the year then ended December 31, 2025, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2025, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year then ended December 31, 2025, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. BASIS FOR OPINION These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB. We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. Substantial Doubt about the Company’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the entity has suffered recurring losses from operations and has a net capital deficiency that raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans in regard to these matters are also described in Note 2. The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty. Critical Audit Matters Critical audit matters are matters arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that F- 1 are material to the consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgements. We determined that the following is a critical audit matter: 1. Acquisition of Vidello Limited As described in Note 4 to the consolidated financial statements, the acquisition of Vidello Limited completed on January 31, 2025, whereby the Company paid to the Vidello Shareholders, $2,745,031 in cash, whereby $2,500,000 are withheld for indemnification expenses and other holdback provisions in accordance with the Vidello Merger Agreement, and issued 89,820 shares of Class A Common Stock together with the Cash Consideration, with allocation to identifiable assets, liabilities, and goodwill material to the consolidated financial statements. We identified the accounting for this acquisition as a critical audit matter because of the significant judgment required by management in determining (1) valuing equity consideration; (2) Level 3 fair values for Vidello intangibles using unobservable inputs (discount rates, growth rates from preliminary data, comparables); (3) goodwill calculation as residual; (4) Contingent earn-outs/holdbacks scrutiny. Auditing these valuations required a high degree of auditor judgment as well as the involvement of our valuation specialists. Our audit procedures related to the Company’s accounting for the acquisition included the following, among others: ▪ Understand the transaction structure, acquisition date, and identify the acquirer. ▪ Agree the total consideration (cash, shares, warrants, contingent/earn‑out) to transaction documents and records. ▪ Test the accounting and fair‑value measurement of contingent/earn‑out consideration, ▪ Verify identification and fair‑value allocation of identifiable assets (PP&E, intangibles) and liabilities assumed. ▪ Engaging our valuation specialists to assist in evaluating the appropriateness of the valuation methodologies and key assumptions (growth rates, discount rates, multiples, terminal value) in the client’s valuation report. ▪ Test the underlying financial data (revenue, EBITDA, working capital) used in the valuation against Vidello’s financials. ▪ Obtaining and reviewing the Stock Purchase Agreement and related documents to understand the terms and conditions of the transaction ▪ Testing the mathematical accuracy of management’s calculations ▪ Evaluating the adequacy of the Company’s disclosures related to the acquisition 2. Fair Value Measurement of Level 3 Financial Instruments and Acquisition-Related Assets As described in Note 7 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company has issued multiple debt and financing instruments, including convertible notes, warrants, and acquisition-related goodwill and definite-lived intangible assets. The valuation of these liabilities requires the use of complex models (e.g., Monte Carlo simulations, Black‑Scholes option pricing models, discounted cash flow models) and involves significant management judgment regarding volatility, discount rates, expected terms, credit spreads, and probability‑weighted conversion outcomes. These estimates are subjective, involve high measurement uncertainty, and are material to the financial statements. Therefore, this matter required especially challenging auditor judgment. F- 2 Our audit procedures included, among others: ▪ Reading and assessing the terms of the relevant agreements to confirm terms driving valuation inputs. ▪ Testing the reasonableness of key valuation inputs by comparing management’s assumptions to observable market data, including interest rates, volatility benchmarks, and credit‑risk information. ▪ Engaging our valuation specialists to assist in evaluating the appropriateness of the valuation methodologies and independently developing fair value estimates to compare with management’s recorded amounts. ▪ Testing the completeness and accuracy of the underlying data used in the valuation models. ▪ Assessing the adequacy of related disclosures in the financial statements. /s/ Bush & Associates CPA LLC We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2025. Las Vegas, Nevada March 31, 2026 PCAOB ID Number 6797 F- 3 Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm To the Shareholders and Board of Directors of Banzai International, Inc. Opinion on the Financial Statements We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of Banzai International, Inc. (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2024, the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity (deficit) and cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2024, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, based on our audit, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2024, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Explanatory Paragraph – Going Concern The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As more fully described in Note 2, the Company has a significant working capital deficiency, has incurred significant losses and needs to raise additional funds to meet its obligations and sustain its operations. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. Management's plans in regard to these matters are also described in Note 2. The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty. Basis for Opinion These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's financial statements based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) ("PCAOB") and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB. We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audit we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. / s/ Marcum LLP Marcum LLP We have served as the Company’s auditor from 2023 to 2025. Marlton, NJ April 15, 2025, except for Note 1 as to which the date is September 12, 2025 F- 4 PART I—FINANCIAL INFORMATION BANZAI INTERNATIONAL, INC. Consolidated Balance Sheets As of December 31, 2025 2024 ASSETS Current assets: Cash $ 259,205 $ 1,087,497 Accounts receivable, net of allowance for credit losses of $ 41,341 and $ 24,210 , respectively 709,203 936,321 Prepaid expenses and other current assets 445,089 643,674 Total current assets 1,413,497 2,667,492 Property and equipment, net 8,246 3,539 Intangible assets, net 8,027,391 3,883,853 Goodwill 21,991,721 18,972,475 Operating lease right-of-use assets 55,871 72,565 Bifurcated embedded derivative asset – related party 9,000 63,000 Deferred offering costs 121,788 — Other assets 4,000 11,154 Total assets 31,631,514 25,674,078 LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFICIT) Current liabilities: Accounts payable 2,494,451 7,782,746 Accrued expenses and other current liabilities 4,353,943 3,891,018 Convertible notes – related party 4,922,601 8,639,701 Convertible notes — 215,057 Convertible notes, carried at fair value 1,856,000 — Convertible notes (Yorkville) 1,200,501 — Notes payable, carried at fair value 2,591,310 3,575,000 Warrant liability 378 15,000 Warrant liability – related party — 2,300 Private placement warrant liability 295,603 — Earnout liability 990,673 14,850 Due to related party — 167,118 Deferred revenue 3,642,527 3,934,627 Operating lease liabilities, current 22,823 22,731 Total current liabilities 22,370,810 28,260,148 Deferred revenue, non-current 93,726 117,643 Deferred tax liability 1,078,055 10,115 Operating lease liabilities, non-current 33,922 49,974 Total liabilities 23,576,513 28,437,880 Commitments and contingencies (Note 15) Stockholders' equity (deficit): Common stock, $ 0.0001 par value, 275,000,000 ( 250,000,000 Class A and 25,000,000 Class B) shares authorized and 10,546,333 ( 10,315,219 Class A and 231,114 Class B) and 819,516 ( 588,402 Class A and 231,114 Class B) shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively 1,055 82 Preferred stock, $ 0.0001 par value, 75,000,000 shares authorized, 1 and 1 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively — — Additional paid-in capital 108,911,110 75,515,829 Accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income ( 85,377 ) — Accumulated deficit ( 100,771,787 ) ( 78,279,713 ) Stockholders' equity (deficit) 8,055,001 ( 2,763,802 ) Total liabilities and stockholders' equity (deficit) $ 31,631,514 $ 25,674,078 The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements. F- 5 BANZAI INTERNATIONAL, INC. Consolidated Statements of Operations For the Years Ended December 31, 2025 2024 Operating income: Revenue $ 12,161,419 $ 4,527,879 Cost of revenue 2,188,583 1,422,542 Gross profit 9,972,836 3,105,337 Operating expenses: General and administrative expenses 27,287,345 16,548,902 Depreciation and amortization expense 1,150,471 24,179 Total operating expenses 28,437,816 16,573,081 Operating loss ( 18,464,980 ) ( 13,467,744 ) Other expenses (income): GEM settlement fee expense — 200,000 Interest income ( 2,955 ) ( 10 ) Interest expense 1,227,509 — Interest expense – related party 1,156,984 3,047,101 Gain on extinguishment of liabilities ( 4,488,627 ) ( 680,762 ) Gain on release of Vidello revenue holdback ( 973,000 ) — Loss on debt issuance 444,000 653,208 Loss on private placement issuance 4,873,509 — Loss on issuance of term notes 110,500 — Loss on issuance of convertible bridge notes 152,826 — Loss on conversion and settlement of Alco promissory notes – related party — 4,808,882 Loss on conversion and settlement of CP BF notes – related party — 6,529,402 Loss on extinguishment of debt, net 2,402,732 1,071,563 Change in fair value of warrant liability ( 1,243,528 ) ( 626,000 ) Change in fair value of warrant liability – related party ( 2,300 ) ( 572,700 ) Change in fair value of bifurcated embedded derivative assets – related party 54,000 ( 51,000 ) Change in fair value of convertible notes ( 1,987,203 ) 693,000 Change in fair value of term notes 173,055 88,588 Change in fair value of convertible bridge notes ( 46,253 ) ( 10,176 ) Yorkville prepayment premium expense — 80,760 Loss on Yorkville SEPA advances 974,079 — Vidello earnout expense 485,720 — Failed acquisition costs 1,382,002 — Goodwill impairment — 2,725,460 Other (income) expense, net ( 726,572 ) 88,329 Total other expenses, net 3,966,478 18,045,645 Loss before income taxes ( 22,431,458 ) ( 31,513,389 ) Income tax expense 60,617 — Net loss $ ( 22,492,075 ) $ ( 31,513,389 ) Deemed dividend - Series A and Series B warrant modification (net of tax) — ( 418,360 ) Net loss attributable to common shareholders $ ( 22,492,075 ) $ ( 31,095,029 ) Net loss per share attributable to common shareholders Basic and diluted $ ( 5.95 ) $ ( 69.75 ) Weighted average common shares outstanding Basic and diluted 3,782,998 445,817 The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements. F- 6 BANZAI INTERNATIONAL, INC. Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity (Deficit) for the year ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 Series A Preferred Stock Series FE Preferred Stock Common Stock Additional Paid-in- Accumulated Other Comprehensive Accumulated Total Stockholders' Shares Amount Share Amount Shares Amount Capital (loss) income Deficit Equity Balance December 31, 2024 — $ — — $ — 819,516 $ 82 $ 75,515,829 $ — $ ( 78,279,713 ) $ ( 2,763,802 ) Shares issued to Yorkville under the SEPA — — — — 2,882,001 289 18,602,931 — — 18,603,220 Shares issued under ATM — — — — 1,816,387 182 3,429,075 — — 3,429,257 Shares issued to FE — — — — 1,176,628 118 ( 118 ) — — — Shares issued upon private placement — — — — 64,237 6 329,990 — — 329,996 Shares issued for payment to Hudson — — — — 130,600 14 974,247 — — 974,261 Shares issued for payment to Verista — — — — 3,000 — 49,800 — — 49,800 Shares issued for payment to Houlihan — — — — 13,000 1 30,809 — — 30,810 Shares issued for payment to Perkins Coie — — — — 130,000 13 365,287 — — 365,300 Shares issued for payment to Acorn — — — — 13,158 1 22,631 — — 22,632 Shares issued for Vidello acquisition — — — — 89,820 9 1,661,668 — — 1,661,677 Shares issued to 1800 Diagonal for conversions of debt — — — — 240,883 24 457,469 — — 457,493 Shares issued to 3i for conversions of debt — — — — 2,565,781 257 4,342,859 — — 4,343,116 Shares issued to Agile for conversions of debt — — — — 232,786 23 283,977 — — 284,000 Shares issued to CP BF for conversions of debt — — — — 62,700 6 165,455 — — 165,461 Stock-based compensation — — — — — — 2,679,231 — — 2,679,231 Vesting of RSUs — — — — 200,954 20 ( 20 ) — — — Exercise of warrants — — — — 104,882 10 ( 10 ) — — — Currency translation adjustment — — — — — — — ( 85,377 ) — ( 85,377 ) Net loss — — — — — — — — ( 22,492,075 ) ( 22,492,075 ) Balance December 31, 2025 — $ — — $ — 10,546,333 $ 1,055 $ 108,911,110 $ ( 85,377 ) $ ( 100,771,788 ) $ 8,055,001 The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements. F- 7 Series A Preferred Stock Series FE Preferred Stock Common Stock Additional Paid-in- Accumulated Total Stockholders' Shares Amount Share Amount Shares Amount Capital Deficit Equity (Deficit) Balance December 31, 2023 — — — — 258,529 26 14,890,169 ( 46,766,324 ) ( 31,876,129 ) Effect of reverse stock split — — — — 18,959 — — — — Conversion of convertible notes - related party — — — — 1,781 — 2,540,091 — 2,540,091 Shares issued to Yorkville for convertible notes — — — — 45,416 5 4,129,995 — 4,130,000 Shares issued to Yorkville for commitment fee — — — — 1,420 — 500,000 — 500,000 Shares issued to Yorkville for redemption premium — — — — 1,200 — 115,800 — 115,800 Shares issued to Roth for advisory fee — — — — 3,879 1 578,832 — 578,833 Shares issued to GEM — — — — 19,000 2 784,941 — 784,943 Shares issued for marketing expense — — — — 947 — 334,772 — 334,772 Forfeiture of sponsor shares — — — — ( 200 ) — — — — Issuance of common stock and warrants, net of issuance costs — — — — 10,456 1 6,257,367 — 6,257,368 Incremental fair value of Series A and Series B warrant modification — — — — — — 418,360 — 418,360 Deemed dividend - Series A and Series B warrant modification — — — — — — ( 418,360 ) — ( 418,360 ) Shares issued for exercise of Pre-Funded warrants — — — — 17,322 2 864 — 866 Shares, warrants and pre-funded warrants issued to CP BF on modification of CP BF debt agreement — — — — 33,085 3 1,287,000 — 1,287,003 Premium issued as part of CP BF debt modification — — — — — — 4,079,225 — 4,079,225 Issuance of warrants to CP BF, net of issuance costs — — — — — — 2,763,161 — 2,763,161 Shares issued to MZHCI for investor relations services — — — — 2,400 — 94,800 — 94,800 Shares issued to J.V.B for payment of outstanding debt — — — — 2,908 — 115,000 — 115,000 Shares, warrants and pre-funded warrants issued to Alco on settlement of Alco promissory notes — — — — 28,242 3 8,866,617 — 8,866,620 Derecognition of Cantor fee — — — — — — 4,000,000 — 4,000,000 Class A Shares issued for OpenReel acquisition — — — — 93,056 9 1,526,106 — 1,526,115 Pre-Funded Warrants issued for OpenReel acquisition — — — — — — 19,300,805 — 19,300,805 Series FE Preferred Stock issued for OpenReel acquisition — — 1 — — — — — — Exercise of RSUs to Board of Director members — — — — 7,939 1 ( 1 ) — Shares issued to Hudson for consulting fee — — — — 4,500 1 166,500 — 166,501 Conversion of convertible notes - CP BF — — — — 5,560 1 216,283 — 216,284 Shares issued to Perkins Coie LLP for payment of outstanding debt — — — — 60,000 6 919,694 — 919,700 Issuance of shares to Yorkville under the SEPA agreement — — — — 55,000 6 880,937 — 880,943 Shares issued for exercise of pre-funded warrants - HCW PIPE — — — — 117,647 12 1,164 — 1,176 Shares issued for exercise of pre-funded warrants - CP BF — — — — 30,470 3 27 — 30 Stock-based compensation — — — — — — 1,165,680 — 1,165,680 Net loss — — — — — — — ( 31,513,389 ) ( 31,513,389 ) Balance December 31, 2024 — $ — 1 $ — 819,516 $ 82 $ 75,515,829 $ ( 78,279,713 ) $ ( 2,763,802 ) The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements. F- 8 BANZAI INTERNATIONAL, INC. Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows F- 9 For the Years Ended December 31, 2025 2024 Cash flows from operating activities: Net loss $ ( 22,492,075 ) $ ( 31,513,389 ) Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities: Depreciation and amortization expense 1,150,471 24,179 Provision for credit losses on accounts receivable 17,131 18,462 Non-cash share issuance for marketing expenses — 245,252 Non-cash shares issued for consulting expenses 974,261 — Non-cash settlement of GEM commitment fee — 200,000 Discount at issuance on notes carried at fair value 1,671,996 747,962 Non-cash share issuance for Yorkville redemption premium — 80,760 Non-cash interest expense — 1,532,475 Non-cash interest expense - related party 1,177,033 — Amortization of debt discount and issuance costs - related party — 1,393,785 Amortization of operating lease right-of-use assets 16,694 137,717 Stock based compensation expense 2,679,231 1,165,680 Gain on release of Vidello revenue holdback ( 973,000 ) — Gain on extinguishment of liability ( 4,488,627 ) ( 680,762 ) Gain on release of due to related party ( 67,118 ) — Loss on conversion and settlement of Alco promissory notes - related party — 4,808,882 Loss on conversion and settlement of CP BF notes - related party — 6,529,402 Loss on debt issuance 444,000 653,208 Loss on issuance of term notes 110,500 — Loss on issuance of convertible bridge notes 152,826 — Loss on Private Placement Issuance 4,873,509 — Loss on extinguishment of debt, net 2,402,732 1,071,563 Impairment loss — 2,725,460 Change in fair value of warrant liability ( 1,243,528 ) ( 626,000 ) Change in fair value of warrant liability - related party ( 2,300 ) ( 572,700 ) Change in fair value of bifurcated embedded derivative asset - related party 54,000 ( 51,000 ) Change in fair value of convertible notes, carried at fair value ( 1,987,203 ) 693,000 Change in fair value of convertible promissory notes — — Change in fair value of term notes 173,055 88,588 Change in fair value of convertible bridge notes ( 46,253 ) ( 10,176 ) Changes in operating assets and liabilities: Accounts receivable 209,987 15,828 Prepaid expenses and other current assets 198,585 551,645 Other assets 7,154 27,227 Accounts payable ( 381,632 ) 1,012,281 Deferred revenue ( 740,066 ) ( 6,315 ) Accrued expenses 110,421 498,051 Operating lease liabilities ( 15,960 ) ( 237,607 ) Earnout liability 587,784 ( 44,549 ) Deferred revenue – long-term ( 23,917 ) 10,573 Deferred tax liability ( 256,310 ) 10,115 Other long-term liabilities — ( 75,000 ) Net cash used in operating activities ( 15,706,619 ) ( 9,575,403 ) Cash flows from investing activities: Cash paid for acquisition of Vidello, net of cash acquired ( 2,677,480 ) — Cash paid for asset acquisition of Superblocks ( 1,500 ) — Cash acquired in acquisition of OpenReel — 82,219 Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities ( 2,678,980 ) 82,219 Cash flows from financing activities: Payment of GEM commitment fee promissory note ( 215,057 ) ( 1,200,000 ) Payment of Vidello transition holdback ( 500,000 ) — Repayment of convertible notes (Yorkville) ( 4,514,664 ) ( 750,000 ) Proceeds from related party advance — 100,000 Repayment of related party advance ( 100,000 ) — Proceeds from term notes, net of issuance costs 5,412,050 2,782,438 Repayment of term notes ( 8,694,757 ) ( 1,939,583 ) Repayments of private placement notes ( 1,291,516 ) — Partial repayment of convertible notes - related party ( 4,728,672 ) ( 283,315 ) Proceeds from Yorkville redemption premium — 35,040 Proceeds from issuance of convertible notes, net of issuance costs 9,975,654 2,602,000 Proceeds received for exercise of Pre-Funded warrants — 2,072 Proceeds from issuance of shares to Yorkville under the SEPA 18,603,220 880,943 Proceeds from shares issued to Verista 49,800 Payment of deferred offering costs – ATM ( 238,330 ) — Proceeds from issuance of common stock and pre-funded warrants under private placement 329,996 — Proceeds from issuance of common stock and warrants 3,545,799 6,257,368 Net cash provided by financing activities 17,633,523 8,486,963 Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents ( 76,216 ) — Net decrease in cash ( 828,292 ) ( 1,006,221 ) Cash at beginning of period 1,087,497 2,093,718 Cash at end of period $ 259,205 $ 1,087,497 F- 10 BANZAI INTERNATIONAL, INC. Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information: Cash paid for interest 1,095,395 338,393 Cash paid for taxes 10,621 5,113 Non-cash investing and financing activities Shares issued to Roth for advisory fee — 578,833 Shares issued to GEM — 784,943 Shares issued for marketing expenses — 334,772 Shares issued to MZHCI for investor relations services — 94,800 Shares issued to J.V.B for payment of outstanding debt — 115,000 Shares issued for exercise of Pre-Funded warrants — 2,072 Deemed dividend - Series A and Series B warrant modification — 418,360 Shares issued to CP BF for debt restructuring — 1,287,003 Warrants and pre-funded warrants issued to CP BF for debt restructuring — 2,763,161 Premium issued as part of CP BF debt modification — 4,079,225 Shares issued to Alco for debt restructuring — 1,098,614 Warrants and pre-funded warrants issued to Alco for debt restructuring — 7,768,006 Shares issued for Hudson consulting fee 974,261 166,501 Shares issued for payment to Verista 49,800 — Shares issued to Perkins Coie LLP for payment of outstanding debt — 919,700 Settlement of GEM commitment fee — 200,000 Shares issued to Yorkville for commitment fee — 115,800 Derecognition of Cantor fee — 4,000,000 Consideration transferred for acquisition of Vidello 1,661,677 — Assets acquired in acquisition of Vidello 8,393,172 — Liabilities assumed in acquisition of Vidello 3,986,464 — Consideration transferred for acquisition of OpenReel — 20,826,920 Assets acquired in acquisition of OpenReel — 24,484,460 Liabilities assumed in acquisition of OpenReel — 3,657,540 Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations — 76,269 Conversion of private placement convertible notes, carried at fair value 4,343,116 — Shares issued for payment of outstanding debt 396,110 — Shares issued for 1800 Diagonal Note conversions of debt 444,317 — Shares issued to Yorkville of aggregate commitment fee — 500,000 Issuance of convertible promissory note – GEM — 1,000,000 Bifurcated embedded derivative liabilities at issuance – related party — 12,000 Conversion of convertible notes - Yorkville — 4,130,000 Conversion of convertible notes - related party — 2,540,091 The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements. F- 11 BANZAI INTERNATIONAL, INC. Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 1. Organization The Business Banzai International, Inc. (the “Company” or “Banzai”) was incorporated in Delaware on September 30, 2015 . Banzai is a leading enterprise SaaS Video Engagement platform used by marketers to power webinars, trainings, virtual events, and on-demand video content. Reverse Stock Splits On August 29, 2024, the stockholders of the Company collectively approved an amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as amended and restated, to effect a reverse stock split (the “2024 Reverse Stock Split”) of the Company’s outstanding Class A Common Stock at a ratio of 1-for-50 effective as of September 19, 2024. The Class B Common Stock was not affected by the 2024 Reverse Stock Split. On June 27, 2025, the stockholders of the Company collectively approved an amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as amended and restated, to effect a reverse stock split (the “2025 Reverse Stock Split”) of the Company’s outstanding Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock at a ratio of 1-for-10 effective on July 8, 2025. No cash or fractional shares were issued in connection with the 2024 Reverse Stock Split and 2025 Reverse Stock Split, and instead the Company rounded up to the next whole share in lieu of issuing fractional shares that would have been issued in the reverse split. Proportional adjustments were made to the number of shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon exercise or conversion of the Company’s outstanding stock options and warrants, the exercise price or conversion price (as applicable) of the Company’s outstanding stock options and warrants, and the number of shares reserved for issuance under the Company’s equity incentive plan. All Class A Common Stock share and per share information included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K has been retroactively adjusted to reflect the impact of the 2024 Reverse Stock Split and 2025 Reverse Stock Split. Smaller Reporting Company The Company is an "smaller reporting company," as defined by SEC rules, and it may take advantage of reduced financial statement disclosure requirements in our SEC filings. Therefore, the Company’s financial statements may not be comparable to certain public companies. 2. Going Concern As of December 31, 2025 the Company had cash of approximately $ 0.3 million. For the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company used approximately $ 15.7 million in cash for operating activities. The Company has incurred recurring net losses from operations and negative cash flows from operating activities since inception. As of December 31, 2025, the Company had an accumulated deficit of approximately $ 100.8 million. These factors raise substantial doubt regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year of the date these financial statements were issued. The continuation of the Company as a going concern is dependent upon the continued financial support from its stockholders and debt holders. Specifically, continuation is contingent on the Company's ability to obtain necessary equity or debt financing to continue operations, and ultimately the Company's ability to generate profit from sales and positive operating cash flows, which is not assured. The Company’s plans include obtaining future debt financings (see Note 12 – Debt ) and equity financings associated with the Yorkville SEPA and the ATM (as defined in Note 15 – Equity ) . If the Company is unsuccessful in completing these planned transactions, it may be required to reduce its spending rate to align with expected revenue levels and cash reserves, although there can be no guarantee that it will be successful in doing so. Accordingly, the Company may be required to raise additional cash through debt or equity transactions. It may not be able to secure financing in a timely manner or on favorable terms, if at all. As a result, management’s plans cannot be considered probable and thus do not alleviate substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. These accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern and do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty. F- 12 3. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Basis of Presentation The Company’s audited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) as determined by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) and applicable regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) regarding annual financial reporting. Principles of Consolidation The accompanying audited consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Banzai and its subsidiaries. The Company consolidates all entities over which the Company has the power to govern the financial and operating policies and therefore exercises control, and upon which the Company has a controlling financial interest. The existence and effect of both current voting rights and potential voting rights that are currently exercisable or convertible are considered when assessing whether control of an entity is exercised. The subsidiary is consolidated from the date at which the Company obtains control and is de-consolidated from the date at which control ceases. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated. The accounting policies of the subsidiary has been changed where necessary to ensure consistency with the policies adopted by the Company. In the opinion of management, all necessary adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments, intercompany adjustments, reclassifications and non-recurring adjustments) have been recorded to present fairly our financial position as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and the results of operations and cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Use of Estimates The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the audited consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Making estimates requires management to exercise significant judgment. It is at least reasonably possible that estimates made as of the date of the financial statements could change in the near term due to one or more future events. Actual results could differ significantly from these estimates. Significant accounting estimates reflected in the Company’s consolidated financial statements include estimates of impairment of goodwill, recognition and measurement of convertible notes, including the associated embedded derivatives, determination of the fair value of the warrant liabilities an