Cyngn Inc.: Form 10-Q for the period ended Jun 30, 2025

The objective of this Management’s Discussion and Analysis is to allow investors to view the Company from management’s perspective, considering items that would have a material impact on future operations. The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our condensed consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes thereto included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 (the “Form 10-K”), which we filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on March 6, 2025. The information in this discussion contains forward-looking statements and information within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, which are subject to the “safe harbor” created by those sections. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning our strategy, future operations, future financial position, future revenues, projected costs, prospects and plans and objectives of management. The words “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “expects,” “intends,” “may,” “plans,” “projects,” “will,” “would” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. We may not actually achieve the plans, intentions, or expectations disclosed in our forward-looking statements and you should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. Actual results or events could differ materially from the plans, intentions and expectations disclosed in the forward-looking statements that we make. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, the risks set forth in our other filings with the SEC, including the Form 10-K. The forward-looking statements are applicable only as of the date on which they are made, and we do not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

Unless the context requires otherwise, references in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q to “we,” “us,” “our,” and Cyngn refer to Cyngn Inc. and its condensed consolidated subsidiaries.

Overview

We are an autonomous vehicle (“AV”) technology company that is focused on addressing industrial uses for autonomous vehicles. We believe that technological innovation is needed to enable adoption of autonomous industrial vehicles that will address the substantial industry challenges that exist today. These challenges include labor shortages, lagging technological advancements from incumbent vehicle manufacturers, and high upfront investment commitment.

Industrial sites are typically rigid environments with consistent standards as opposed to city streets that have more variable environmental and situational conditions and diverse regulations. These differences in operational design domains will be major factors that make proliferation of industrial AVs in private settings achievable with less time and resources than AVs on public roadways. Namely, safety and infrastructure challenges are cited as roadblocks that have delayed AVs from operating on public roadways at scale. Our focus on industrial AVs simplifies these challenges because industrial facilities (especially those belonging to a single end customer that operates similarly at different sites) share much more in common than different cities do. Furthermore, our end customers own their infrastructure and can make changes more easily than governments can on public roadways.

With these challenges in mind, we are developing an Enterprise Autonomy Suite (“EAS”) that leverages advanced in-vehicle autonomous driving technology and incorporates leading supporting technologies like data analytics, asset tracking, fleet management, cloud, and connectivity. EAS provides a differentiated solution that we believe will drive pervasive proliferation of industrial autonomy and create value for customers at every stage of their journey towards full automation and the adoption of Industry 4.0.

EAS is a suite of technologies and tools that we divide into three complementary categories:

1. DriveMod, our modular industrial vehicle autonomous driving software;

2. Cyngn Insight, our customer-facing tool suite for monitoring and managing AV fleets (including remotely operated vehicles) and generating/aggregating/analyzing data (including the IoT gateway device); and

3. Cyngn Evolve, our internal tool suite and infrastructure that facilitates artificial intelligence (“AI”) and machine learning (“ML”) training to continuously enhance our algorithms and models and provides a simulation framework (both record/rerun and synthetic scenario creation) to ensure that data collected in the field can be applied to validating new releases.

Legacy automation providers manufacture specialized industrial vehicles with integrated robotics software for rigid tasks, limiting automation to narrow uses. Unlike these specialized vehicles, EAS can be compatible with the existing vehicle assets in addition to new vehicles that have been purposely built for autonomy by vehicle manufacturers. EAS is operationally expansive, vehicle agnostic, and compatible with indoor and outdoor environments. By offering flexible autonomous services, we aim to remove barriers to industry adoption.

We understand that scaling of autonomy solutions will require an ecosystem made up of different technologies and services that are enablers for AVs. Our approach is to forge strategic collaborations with complementary technology providers that accelerate AV development and deployment, provide access to new markets, and create new capabilities. Our focus on designing DriveMod to be modular will combine with our experience deploying AV technology on diverse industrial vehicle form factors, which will be difficult for competitors to replicate.

We expect our technology to generate revenue through two main methods: deployment and EAS subscriptions. Deploying our EAS requires us and our integration partners to work with a new client to map the facility, gather data, and install our AV technology within their fleet and site. We anticipate that new deployments will yield project-based revenues based on the scope of the deployment. After deployment, we expect to generate revenues by offering EAS through a Software as a Service (“SaaS”) model, which can be considered the AV software component of Robotics as a Service (“RaaS”).

RaaS is a subscription model that allows customers to use robots/vehicles without purchasing the hardware assets upfront. We will seek to achieve sustained revenue growth largely from ongoing SaaS-style EAS subscriptions that enable companies to tap into our ever-expanding suite of AV and AI capabilities as organizations transition into full industrial autonomy.

Although both the components and the combined solutions of EAS are still under development, we have EAS licenses with paying customers and have piloted EAS for paid customer trial and pilot deployments. We expect EAS to continually be developed and enhanced according to evolving customer needs, which will take place concurrently while other completed features of EAS are commercialized. We expect annual R&D expenditures in the foreseeable future to exceed that of 2024. We also had limited paid deployments in 2024 that offset some of the ongoing R&D costs of continually developing EAS. We target scaled deployments to begin in 2025.

Our go-to-market strategy is to acquire new customers that use industrial vehicles in their mission-critical and daily operations by (a) leveraging the relationships and existing customers of our network of strategic partners, (b) bringing AV capabilities to industrial vehicles as a software service provider, and (c) executing a robust in-house sales and marketing effort to nurture a pipeline of industrial organizations. Our focus is on acquiring new customers who are either looking (a) to embed our technology into their vehicle product roadmaps or (b) to apply autonomy to existing fleets with our vehicle retrofits. In turn, our customers are any organizations that could utilize our EAS solution, including original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”) that supply industrial vehicles, end customers that operate their own industrial vehicles, or service providers that operate industrial vehicles for end customers.

As OEMs and leading industrial vehicle users seek to increase productivity, reinforce safer working environments, and scale their operations, we believe we are uniquely positioned to deliver a dynamic autonomy solution via our EAS to a wide variety of industrial uses. Our long-term vision is for EAS to become a universal autonomous driving solution with minimal marginal cost for companies to adopt new vehicles and expand their autonomous fleets across new deployments. We have already deployed DriveMod software on more than 10 different vehicle form factors that range from stockchasers and forklifts to 14-seat shuttles and 5-meter-long cargo vehicles demonstrating the extensibility of our AV building blocks.

Our strategy upon establishing a customer relationship with an OEM is to seek to embed our technology into their vehicle roadmap and expand our services to their many clients. Once we solidify an initial AV deployment with a customer, we intend to seek to expand within the site to additional vehicle platforms and/or expand the use of similar vehicles to other sites operated by the customer. This “land and expand” strategy can repeat iteratively across new vehicles and sites and is at the heart of why we believe industrial AVs that operate in geo-fenced, constrained environments are poised to create value.

Recent Developments

June Offerings

On June 27, 2025, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement with the institutional investors named on the signature page thereto, pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell and issue, in a registered direct offering (the “June 27 Offering”), 313,564 shares of its common stock, par value $0.00001 per share, at a purchase price of $7.50 per share and 1,979,769 pre-funded warrants to purchase shares of common stock, at a purchase price of $7.49999 per pre-funded warrant.

The June 27 Offering was made pursuant to that certain Registration Statement on Form S-3, as amended (File No. 333-271567), which was originally filed on May 2, 2023, and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 13, 2023, including the prospectus contained therein and a prospectus supplement dated June 27, 2025 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 30, 2025.

The closing of the June 27 Offering occurred on June 30, 2025. The Company received net proceeds of approximately $14.7 million from the June 27 Offering, after deducting the estimated offering expenses payable by the Company, including the placement agent fees. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the June 27 Offering for general corporate purposes, including working capital.

In connection with the June 27 Offering, the Company entered into a placement agent agreement with Aegis Capital Corp., as the exclusive placement agent in connection with the June 27 Offering. As compensation, the Company paid Aegis Capital Corp. a cash fee of 7% of the aggregate gross proceeds raised in the June 27 Offering and reimbursed certain of its expenses.

On June 26, 2025, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement with the institutional investors named on the signature page thereto, pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell and issue, in a registered direct offering (the “June 26 Offering”), 192,496 shares of its common stock, par value $0.00001 per share, at a purchase price of $5.01 per share and 2,801,516 pre-funded warrants to purchase shares of common stock, at a purchase price of $5.00999 per pre-funded warrant.

The June 26 Offering was made pursuant to that certain Registration Statement on Form S-3, as amended (File No. 333-271567), which was originally filed on May 2, 2023, and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 13, 2023, including the prospectus contained therein and a prospectus supplement dated June 26, 2025 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 27, 2025.

The closing of the June 26 Offering occurred on June 27, 2025. The Company received net proceeds of approximately $12.7 million from the June 26 Offering, after deducting the estimated offering expenses payable by the Company, including the placement agent fees. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the June 26 Offering for general corporate purposes, including working capital.

In connection with the June 26 Offering, the Company entered into a placement agent agreement with Aegis Capital Corp., as the exclusive placement agent in connection with the June 26 Offering. As compensation, the Company paid Aegis Capital Corp. a cash fee of 7% of the aggregate gross proceeds raised in the June 26 Offering and reimbursed certain of its expenses.

Under the terms of a settlement agreement with a former placement agent, the Company may be obligated to pay to a $2.3 million cash fee and issue 370,114 warrants to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock in connection with the June 27 Offering and the June 26 Offering. However, the Company has informed the former placement agent that it does not believe there is a basis for these obligations. The Company has not received a response from the former placement agent and a resolution has not been reached as of the date of this filing. While an unfavorable outcome is reasonably possible, the Company is unable to estimate the possible loss or range of loss and has not accrued any loss related to this matter at this time.

Departure of Officer and Appointment of Officers

On May 6, 2025, the Company’s Board of Directors appointed Natalie Russell to serve as Interim Chief Financial Officer. Mrs. Russell was appointed to replace Donald Alvarez who on May 5, 2025, tendered his resignation as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Alvarez’ resignation and Mrs. Russell’s appointment took effect on June 6, 2025.

Also on May 6, 2025, the Company’s Board, named Martin Petraitis, Vice President of Sales, as a named executive officer.

Amendment to Employment Agreement

On March 6, 2025, the Company entered into a letter agreement with Lior Tal, its CEO (the “Letter Agreement”), amending his employment agreement dated January 1, 2022 (the “Employment Agreement”). Pursuant to the Letter Agreement, Mr. Tal’s Employment Agreement was amended to provide for (i) a modification of his annual base salary to $640,000 effective January 1, 2025, (ii) a modification of his annual bonus to be eligible to earn an annual performance bonus in the target amount of up to $640,000 (the “Annual Bonus”), (iii) Mr. Tal shall be eligible to earn a special bonus for performance for 2025 of up to $1,000,000 (“2025 Special Bonus”), payable in January 2026, and (iv) Mr. Tal shall be eligible to earn a time-based 2025-2026 special bonus of up to $1,600,000 (the “2025-2026 Special Bonus”), payable in eight (8) quarterly installments of $200,000, with the first installment to be paid following Q1 2025, subject to such terms included in the Letter Agreement. Unless otherwise agreed in writing by the parties in a mutually executed amendment to the Employment Agreement, no special bonuses shall be paid after 2026, and the non-payment of any special bonus after 2026 shall not constitute “Good Reason” within the meaning of the Employment Agreement. Neither the 2025 Special Bonus nor the 2025-2026 Special Bonus shall be included in the Severance or the CIC Severance as such terms are defined in the Employment Agreement.

Series B Warrants Exercises

As of February 28, 2025, all the Series B warrants, in connection with the securities purchase agreement in December 2024, were exercised for a total of 232,919,252 shares.

Nasdaq Compliance

On February 6, 2025, the Company received a notification letter from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC advising that, for 30 consecutive business days preceding the notification letter, the Company did not meet the minimum $1.00 per share bid price requirement for continued inclusion on The Nasdaq Capital Market pursuant to Nasdaq Marketplace Listing Rule 5550(a)(2). Normally, a company would be afforded a 180-calendar day period to demonstrate compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement. However, pursuant to Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A)(iv) the Company is not eligible for any compliance period specified in Rule 5810(c)(3)(A) because the Company has effected a reverse stock split over the prior one-year period or has effected one or more reverse stock splits over the prior two-year period with a cumulative ratio of 250 shares or more to one. Accordingly, the Company’s securities are subject to delisting from Nasdaq unless the Company requests an appeal of this determination by February 13, 2025. The Company timely requested an appeal of the determination, and a hearing is scheduled for March 18, 2025. On February 18, 2025, the Company effected a reverse stock split of its common stock and the Company’s common stock has traded above $1.00 since the effectuation of the reverse stock split. On March 12, 2025, the Company received a letter from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC stating that the Company had regained compliance with the minimum bid price requirement of $1.00 per share for continued listing on the Nasdaq Stock Market, as set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2). The Company will be subject to a mandatory panel monitor for a period of one year from March 12, 2025. If, within that one-year monitoring period, the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications staff (the “Staff”) finds the Company is again out of compliance with the minimum bid price requirement, notwithstanding Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(2), then the Staff will issue a delist determination letter and the Company will have an opportunity to request a new hearing with the initial Nasdaq hearing panel (the “Panel”) or a newly convened hearing panel if the initial Panel is unavailable.

Reverse Stock Split

On January 30, 2025, the Company’s stockholders voted to authorize the Company’s Board of Directors to effect a reverse stock split of the outstanding shares of common stock within a range of 1-for-5 to 1-for-150. On January 30, 2025, the Company’s Board of Directors determined to effect the reverse stock split of the common stock at a 1-for-150 ratio, which reverse split became effective in the market on February 18, 2025. Accordingly, all share and per share data included in the condensed consolidated financial statements and applicable disclosures have been adjusted retroactively to reflect the impact of the reverse stock split.

The Company’s primary reason for effecting the reverse stock split was to increase the per share price of our common stock to meet Nasdaq’s minimum bid price requirement for continued listing on Nasdaq.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates and Judgements

Our condensed consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent liabilities at the date of the condensed consolidated financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. We continually evaluate our estimates and judgments. We base our estimates and judgments on historical experience and other factors that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. Materially different results can occur as circumstances change and additional information becomes known. Besides the estimates identified below that are considered critical, we make many other accounting estimates in preparing our condensed consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. All estimates, whether or not deemed critical, affect reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, as well as disclosures of contingent liabilities. These estimates and judgments are also based on historical experience and other factors that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. Materially different results can occur as circumstances change and additional information becomes known, even for estimates and judgments that are not deemed critical.

The Company considers costs to develop software, warrants and share-based compensation to be critical accounting estimates and believes the associated assumptions and estimates to have the greatest potential impact on our condensed consolidated financial statements.

Costs to Develop Software

The Company incurs costs related to internally developed software. Based on the nature of the software the Company capitalizes software costs under the following guidance.

Internal-Use Software

The Company capitalizes certain costs related to internal-use software, primarily consisting of direct labor and third-party vendor costs associated with creating the software. Software development projects generally include three stages: the preliminary project stage (all costs are expensed as incurred), the application development stage (certain costs are capitalized and certain costs are expensed as incurred) and the post-implementation/operation stage (all costs are expensed as incurred). Costs capitalized in the application development stage include costs related to the design and implementation of the selected software components, software build and configuration infrastructure, and software interfaces. Capitalization of costs requires judgment in determining when a project has reached the application development stage, the proportion of time spent in the application development stage, and the period over which the Company expects to benefit from the use of that software. Once the software is placed in service, these costs are amortized on the straight-line method over the estimated useful life of the software, which is generally three to five years. There is judgment involved in the determination of the useful life. Internal-use software is classified as property and equipment in accordance with ASC 350, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other.

Costs to develop software to be sold, leased or otherwise marketed

The Company accounts for research costs of computer software to be sold, leased or otherwise marketed as expense until technological feasibility has been established for the product. Once technological feasibility is established, all software costs are capitalized until the product is available for general release to customers. Judgment is required in determining when technological feasibility of a product is established. We have determined that technological feasibility for our software products is reached shortly after a working prototype is complete and meets or exceeds design specifications including functions, features, and technical performance requirements. After technological feasibility is established, judgment is required to determine the amount of payroll and stock-based compensation costs to be capitalized on the remaining development efforts. These costs will continue to be capitalized until such time as when the product or enhancement is available for general release to customers. Computer software to be sold, leased or otherwise marketed is classified as an intangible asset in accordance with ASC 985, Software.

Common Stock Warrants

The Company issued to its lead underwriter in the Company’s initial public offering consummated in October 2021, (the “IPO”), warrants to purchase up to 9 shares of its common stock, exercisable at a price per share of $140,625 and expiring on October 19, 2026. Additionally, in connection with the Private Placement offering completed on April 29, 2022, the Company issued warrants to purchase 426 shares of its common stock, exercisable at a price per share of $40,650 and expiring on April 29, 2027. The Company accounts for warrants in accordance with ASC 480, Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity, depending on the specific terms of the warrant agreement. The Company determined the fair value of the warrants using the Black-Scholes pricing model and treated the valuation as equity instruments in consideration of the cashless settlement provisions in the warrant agreements.

The Company also applied the guidance in ASC 340-10-S99-1, Other Assets and Deferred Costs, that states specific incremental costs directly attributable to a proposed or actual offering of equity securities may properly be deferred and charged against the gross proceeds of the offering. The Company treated the valuation of the warrants as directly attributable to the issuance of an equity contract and, accordingly, classified the warrants as additional paid-in capital.

The Company issued Series A warrants and Series B warrants in connection with securities purchase agreement on December 20, 2024. The Company accounts for warrants in accordance with ASC 480, Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity, depending on the specific terms of the warrant agreement. The Company determined the fair value of the warrants using the Monte Carlo pricing model and treated the valuation as a liability in consideration of the variable number of the issuer’s equity shares in the warrant agreements. After shareholder approval on January 30, 2025, the strike price and the number of equity shares are now fixed. Therefore, in accordance with ASC 815-40-35-8, Derivatives and Hedging Reclassification of Contracts, the Series A warrants were re-measured utilizing the Black Scholes model and reclassified into equity. The Series A warrants are included in equity in the condensed consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2025. The Series B warrants were re-measured utilizing the Black Scholes model immediately before exercise and were fully exercised in February 2025. Due to the Series A reclassification to equity and the exercising of the Series B warrants, the Company expensed the total of $0.9 million of liability issues costs to change in fair value of the warrant liability for the six months ended June 30, 2025.

Stock-based Compensation

The Company recognizes the cost of share-based awards granted to employees and directors based on the estimated grant-date fair value of the awards. Cost is recognized on a straight-line basis over the service period, which is generally the vesting period of the award. The Company recognizes stock-based compensation cost and reverses previously recognized costs for unvested awards in the period forfeitures occur, if any. The Company determines the fair value of stock options using the Black-Scholes option pricing model, which is impacted by the fair value of the Company’s common stock, expected price volatility of the common stock, expected term, risk-free interest rates, and expected dividend yield.

Results of Operations

Revenue

We currently derive revenue from four sources. We enter into fixed-price NRE contracts related to trial projects that consist of several independent phases and include design, data gathering, hardware installation on an industrial vehicle, customer-specific configuration of the DriveMod software, and demonstrations. The determination of the contract price is based on labor and hardware costs estimated to achieve the required milestones specified in the contract. The purpose of these fully funded projects is to exhibit the feasibility of the Company’s technology offering to the customer on additional vehicle types and provide a level of confidence to encourage the customer to enter into a multi-year, commercial arrangement with the Company in the future. Revenue on these multi-phase contracts is generally recognized at the point in time when the performance obligations of each independent phase have been completed and customer acceptance has been acknowledged. Contracts often allow mutual termination without penalty. To the extent our actual costs vary from the fixed fee, we will generate more or less profit or could incur a loss.

In addition, we derive revenue from EAS subscriptions with relative add-on offerings such as hardware revenue and other revenue (i.e., deployment/set up costs). Revenue from these subscriptions and add-ons are recognized monthly over the service contract life, beginning at the time that a customer acknowledges acceptance of the service.

During the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, the Company recognized $33,726 and $80,878, respectively, of revenue, substantially all related to EAS subscriptions, software royalties and hardware revenue.

Cost of Revenue

Cost of revenues consists primarily of direct labor and related fringe benefits for internal engineering resources costs incurred for the completion of the contracts and hardware costs.

During the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, the Company reported cost of revenue of $16,944 and $28,758, respectively, consisting primarily of deployment costs, related to personnel costs, travel expenses and associated hardware costs to specific customers.

Research and Development

Research and development expense consist primarily of internal engineering and development expenses, materials, labor and stock-based compensation and outsourced engineering services related to development of the Company’s products and services. Research and development costs incurred during deployments are capitalized and expensed when the associated contract revenue is recognized. All other research and development costs are expensed as incurred.

Research and development expense for the three months ended June 30, 2025 decreased by approximately $1.2 million or 38.3% to $2.0 million from approximately $3.2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2024. The decrease is primarily attributable to a decrease in personnel related costs and the capitalization of costs related to capitalized software and customer contracts.

Research and development expense for the six months ended June 30, 2025 decreased by approximately $2.3 million or 35.8% to $4.1 million from approximately $6.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2024. The decrease is primarily attributable to a decrease in personnel related costs and the capitalization of costs related to capitalized software and customer contracts.

General and Administrative

General and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel costs, facilities expenses, depreciation and amortization, travel, and advertising costs.

General and administrative expenses for the three months ended June 30, 2025 increased by approximately $1.0 million or 36.4% to $3.6 million from approximately $2.6 million for the three months ended June 30, 2024. The increase is primarily attributable to an increase in personnel related costs.

General and administrative expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2025 increased by approximately $1.4 million or 26.2% to $6.7 million from approximately $5.3 million for the six months ended June 30, 2024. The increase is primarily attributable to an increase in personnel related costs.

Interest Income (Expense), net

Interest income (expense), net increased by $196,323 to $(197,992) for the three months ended June 30, 2025 from $(1,669) for the three months ended June 30, 2024. Interest income consists primarily of interest earned of $11,601 from the Company’s interest-bearing bank accounts, offset by interest expense of $209,594 related to the office lease.

Interest income (expense), net increased by $122,831 to $(123,173) for the six months ended June 30, 2025 from $(342) for the six months ended June 30, 2024. Interest income consists primarily of interest earned of $88,964 from the Company’s interest-bearing bank accounts, offset by interest expense of $212,137 related to the office lease.

Other Income (Expense), net

Other income (expense), net increased by $256,624 to $251,545 for the three months ended June 30, 2025 from $(5,079) for the three months ended June 30, 2024. Other income consists primarily of realized gains earned on the Company’s short-term investments of $249,163 and interest earned of $8,409 related to the office lease, offset by $(6,027) loss on asset disposal.

Other income (expense), net increased by $2.2 million to $(2.2) million for the six months ended June 30, 2025 from $(10,126) for the six months ended June 30, 2024. Other income consists primarily of fair value remeasurement of $(2.5) million offset by realized gains earned on the Company’s short-term investments of $0.3 million.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

The Company’s principal source of liquidity is its cash and current maturities of short-term investments. Short-term investments consist of placements in U.S. government securities with original maturities between three to nine months. As of June 30, 2025, the Company had unrestricted cash of approximately $31.3 million and short-term investments of approximately $7.9 million. As of December 31, 2024, the Company had unrestricted cash of approximately $23.6 million.

On May 31, 2023, the Company entered into an ATM Sales Agreement with Virtu Americas LLC (the “ATM Sales Agreement”), under which the Company may, from time to time, sell shares of the Company’s common stock at market prices by methods deemed to be an “at-the-market offering” as defined in Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The ATM Sales Agreement and related prospectus are limited to sales of up to $8.8 million of shares of the Company’s common stock. The ATM Sales Agreement expires at the earliest of 5 years after the date of the agreement or exhaustion of the aggregate limit available under the ATM Sales Agreement. The Company pays Virtu Americas LLC up to 3.0% of the gross proceeds as a commission. As of December 31, 2024, a total of 4,524, shares of common stock were sold through Virtu Americas LLC under the ATM Sales Agreement for net proceeds of $8,597,957 after payment of commission fees of $175,468 and other related expenses of $60,465. As of December 31, 2024, the Company had $0 of common stock remaining available for sale under the ATM Sales Agreement.

On December 8, 2023, the Company entered into a Placement Agent Agreement with Aegis Capital Corp. (“Aegis”), pursuant to which Aegis acted as the Company’s placement agent, on a reasonable best efforts basis, in connection with the sale by the Company of an aggregate of 2,222 shares of common stock in a public offering, which included: (i) 764 shares of common stock, and (ii) pre-funded warrants to purchase 1,458 shares of common stock. The Pre-Funded Warrants had a nominal exercise price of $0.00001. Each share of common stock was sold at an offering price of $2,250, and each Pre-Funded Warrant was sold at an offering price of $2,249.85. The Company received net proceeds of approximately $4.5 million, after deducting the estimated offering expenses payable by the Company, including the placement agent fees.

On April 23, 2024, the Company entered into an underwritten Agreement with Aegis Capital Corp. (“Aegis”), pursuant to which Aegis acted as the Company’s underwriter on a firm commitment basis in connection with the sale by the Company of an aggregate of 3,333 shares of common stock in a public offering, which included: (i) 1,320 shares of common stock, and (ii) pre-funded warrants to purchase 2,013 shares of common stock. The Pre-Funded Warrants had a nominal exercise price of $0.0015. Each share of common stock was sold at an offering price of $1,500, and each Pre-Funded Warrant was sold at an offering price of $1,499.85. The Pre-Funded Warrants are classified as a component of permanent stockholders’ equity within additional paid-in capital and were recorded at the issuance date concluding the purchase price approximated the fair value. The offering closed on April 25, 2024. On May 3 2024, the Company closed on the sale of an additional 136 shares of common stock, upon exercise by the underwriter of the over-allotment option. The Company received net proceeds of approximately $4.6 million, after deducting the estimated offering expenses payable by the Company, including the placement agent fees.

On November 12, 2024, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement with certain investors pursuant to which we sold, in a private placement, senior notes with an aggregate principal amount of $4,375,000 (the “Notes”), and received proceeds before expenses of $3,500,000. As consideration for entering into the agreement, we issued a total of 2,701 shares of common stock of the Company to the Purchasers on November 13, 2024. The principal amount of the Notes were repaid on December 23, 2024.

On November 12, 2024, the Company implemented a cost reduction plan in order to reduce its average monthly cash burn from approximately $1.8 million per month to approximately $1 million per month for 90 days. This included reducing staff from approximately 80 people to approximately 60 people, temporarily suspending certain non-essential operations and reducing or eliminating all discretionary expenses. With the additional capital raised in December 2024, the Company has resumed normal operations.

On December 20, 2024, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement for the sale and issuance of (i) 20,507 units at a public offering price per Unit of $241.50 with each Unit consisting of one share of common stock, par value $0.00001 per share, one Series A warrant to purchase one share of Common Stock at an exercise price of $301.875 per share and one Series B warrant to purchase one share of Common Stock at an exercise price of $301.875 and (ii) 62,309 pre-funded units at a public offering price of $241.485 per Pre-Funded Unit, with each Pre-Funded Unit consisting of one pre-funded warrant exercisable for one share of Common Stock at an exercise price of $0.015 per share, one Series A Warrant and one Series B Warrant. The net proceeds to the Company from the Offering were approximately $18.2 million, after deducting placement agent’s fees and the payment of other offering expenses associated with the offering that were payable by the Company.

On December 30, 2024, the “Company entered into a securities purchase agreement pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell and issue, in a registered direct offering, 44,333 shares of its common stock, par value $0.015 per share at a purchase price of $90 per share and 55,667 pre-funded warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock, at a purchase price of $89.985 per Pre-Funded Warrant. The Company received net proceeds of approximately $8.1 million from the Offering, after deducting the estimated offering expenses payable by the Company, including the placement agent fees.

On June 26, 2025, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement with certain investors, pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell and issue, in a registered direct offering, 192,496 shares of its common stock, par value $0.00001 per share, at a purchase price of $5.01 per share and 2,801,516 pre-funded warrants to purchase shares of common stock, at a purchase price of $5.00999 per pre-funded warrant. The Company received net proceeds of approximately $12.7 million from the offering, after deducting the estimated offering expenses payable by the Company, including the placement agent fees.

On June 27, 2025, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement with certain investors, pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell and issue, in a registered direct offering, 313,564 shares of its common stock, par value $0.00001 per share, at a purchase price of $7.50 per share and 1,979,769 pre-funded warrants to purchase shares of common stock, at a purchase price of $7.49999 per pre-funded warrant. The Company received net proceeds of approximately $14.7 million from the offering, after deducting the estimated offering expenses payable by the Company, including the placement agent fees.

The Company’s liquidity is based on its ability to enhance its operating cash flow position, obtain capital financing from equity interest investors and borrow funds to fund its general operations, research and development activities and capital expenditures. The Company’s ability to continue as a going concern is dependent on management’s ability to successfully execute its business plan, which includes increasing revenue while controlling operating costs and expenses and obtaining funds from outside sources of financing to generate positive financing cash flows.

Based on cash flow projections from operating and financing activities and the existing balance of cash and short-term investments, management is of the opinion that the Company has sufficient funds for sustainable operations, and it will be able to meet its payment obligations from operations and related commitments for the 12 months following the date that these condensed consolidated financial statements were issued. Based on the above considerations, the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of assets and liquidation of liabilities during the normal course of operations.

Cash Flows

Operating activities

Net cash used in operating activities for the six months ended June 30, 2025 was approximately $12.8 million, an increase of approximately $2.6 million or 25.5% compared to approximately $10.2 million for the six months ended June 30, 2024. The increase is primarily attributed to an increase in prepaid inventory for tuggers, an increase in inventory related to tuggers, and the security deposit for the new office location.

Investing activities

Net cash used in investing activities for the six months ended June 30, 2025 was approximately $9.1 million, a decrease of approximately $12.1 million compared to net cash provided by investing activities of approximately $3.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2024. The decrease consists of short-term investment purchases of approximately $23.8 million and acquisition of intangible assets of $1.2 million, offset by $12.6 million in short-term investment proceeds and a decrease in equipment purchases of $0.3 million.

Financing activities

Net cash provided by financing activities for the six months ended June 30, 2025 was $29.6 million, which consisted of proceeds from the sale of common stock, an increase of approximately $20.0 million compared to $9.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2024, which consisted of proceeds from at-the-market equity financing and the sale of common stock.

Emerging Growth Company Status

We are an “emerging-growth company”, as defined in the JOBS Act, and, for as long as we continue to be an emerging growth company, we may choose to take advantage of exemptions from various reporting requirements applicable to other public companies but not to emerging growth companies, including, but not limited to, not being required to have our independent registered public accounting firm audit our internal control over financial reporting under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved. As an emerging growth company we can also delay adopting new or revised accounting standards until such time as those standards apply to private companies. We intend to avail ourselves of these options. Once adopted, we must continue to report on that basis until we no longer qualify as an emerging growth company.

We will cease to be an emerging growth company upon the earliest of: (i) the end of the fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of the initial public offering; (ii) the first fiscal year after our annual gross revenue are $1.07 billion or more; (iii) the date on which we have, during the previous three-year period, issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities; or (iv) the end of any fiscal year in which the market value of our common stock held by non-affiliates exceeded $700 million as of the end of the second quarter of that fiscal year. We cannot predict if investors will find our common stock less attractive if we choose to rely on these exemptions. If, as a result of our decision to reduce future disclosure, investors find our common shares less attractive, there may be a less active trading market for our common shares and the price of our common shares may be more volatile.

We are also a “smaller reporting company”, meaning that the market value of our stock held by non-affiliates plus the aggregate amount of gross proceeds to us as a result of the IPO is less than $700 million and our annual revenue was less than $100 million during the most recently completed fiscal year. We may continue to be a smaller reporting company if either (i) the market value of our stock held by non-affiliates is less than $250 million or (ii) our annual revenue was less than $100 million during the most recently completed fiscal year and the market value of our stock held by non-affiliates is less than $700 million. If we are a smaller reporting company at the time we cease to be an emerging growth company, we may continue to rely on exemptions from certain disclosure requirements that are available to smaller reporting companies. Specifically, as a smaller reporting company we may choose to present only the two most recent fiscal years of audited financial statements in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and, similar to emerging growth companies, smaller reporting companies have reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation.

Management’s Report on Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our management, under the supervision and with the participation of our Principal Executive Officer (our Chief Executive Officer) and Principal Financial Officer (our Chief Financial Officer), has evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of June 30, 2025. The term “disclosure controls and procedures,” as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, means controls and other procedures of a company that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the company’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, or person performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Management recognizes that any disclosure controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives, and management necessarily applies its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. Based on the evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of June 30, 2025, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of such date, our disclosure controls and procedures are effective, except as described below.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

As reported in our Annual Report on Form 10-K as of December 31, 2024, the following was identified as a material weakness during the fourth quarter of 2024: ineffective oversight of third parties engaged to assist in the Company’s financial reporting process. During the first quarter of 2025, the material weakness persisted. Management has revised the processes surrounding this material weakness, and while a new control has been implemented, no relevant transactions occurred during the second quarter of 2025. Thus, the effectiveness of the new control could not be tested and the material weakness remains unremediated as of June 30, 2025. Notwithstanding this material weakness, management believes that the condensed consolidated financial statements included in this report fairly present, in all material respects, the Company’s financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented in conformity with U.S. GAAP.

The SEC defines ‘material weakness’ as 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 the registrant’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis by the company’s internal controls. While we are in the process of adopting remediation procedures related to this identified material weakness, there can be no assurance that such remedies will be effective. In addition, if this is not remediated, we will be unable to certify that our internal control over financial reporting is effective. We cannot assure you that there will not be material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting in the future. Any failure to maintain internal control over financial reporting could severely inhibit our ability to accurately report our financial condition or results of operations. If we are unable to conclude that our internal control over financial reporting is effective, we could lose investor confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, the market price of our common stock could decline, and we could be subject to sanctions or investigations by the SEC or other regulatory authorities. Failure to remedy any material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting, or to implement or maintain other effective control systems required of public companies, could also restrict our future access to the capital markets.

Except as described as above, there has been no change in our internal control over financial reporting during our most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those in this Quarterly Report are any of the risks described in “Part I, Item 1A. Risk Factors” in the Form 10-K. Any of these factors could result in a significant or material adverse effect on our results of operations or financial condition. Additional risk factors not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also impair our business or results of operations.

As of the date of this Quarterly Report, there were no material changes to the risks and uncertainties described in the section titled “Risk Factors” in the Form 10-K during the three months ended June 30, 2025.