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BULLFROG AI HOLDINGS, INC.
TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR FORM 10-Q
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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, or the “Securities Act,” and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or the “Exchange Act.” These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from historical results or anticipated results.
In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “may,” “intend,” “might,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “expect,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” or the negative of these terms. These terms and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this report are based upon management’s current expectations and beliefs, which management believes are reasonable. In addition, we cannot assess the impact of each factor on our business or the extent to which any factor or combination of factors, or factors we are aware of, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. These statements represent our estimates and assumptions only as of the date of this report. Except to the extent required by federal securities laws, we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
You should be aware that our actual results could differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including:
| ● | our future financial performance, including our revenue, costs of revenue, operating expenses and profitability; | |
| ● | the sufficiency of our cash and cash equivalents to meet our liquidity needs; | |
| ● | our predictions about the proprietary development, digital transformation technology and bio health businesses and their respective market trends; | |
| ● | our ability to attract and retain customers in all our business segments to purchase our products and services; | |
| ● | the availability of financing for smaller publicly traded companies like us; | |
| ● | our ability to successfully expand in our three principal business markets and into new markets and industry verticals; and | |
| ● | our ability to effectively manage our growth and future expenses. |
Other risks and uncertainties include such factors, among others, as market acceptance and market demand for our products and services, pricing, the changing regulatory environment, the effect of our accounting policies, industry trends, adequacy of our financial resources to execute our business plan, our ability to attract, retain and motivate key personnel, and other risks described from time to time in periodic and current reports we file with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or the “SEC.” You should consider carefully the statements under this report, which address additional factors that could cause our actual results to differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements and could materially and adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the applicable cautionary statements.
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PART 1. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. Financial Statements
Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
(Unaudited)
| September 30, 2023 | December 31, 2022 | |||||||
| Assets | ||||||||
| Current assets: | ||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | $ | ||||||
| Prepaid expenses | ||||||||
| Total current assets | ||||||||
| Property and equipment, net | ||||||||
| Total assets | $ | $ | ||||||
| Liabilities and Stockholders’ Deficit | ||||||||
| Current liabilities: | ||||||||
| Accounts payable | $ | $ | ||||||
| Accrued expenses | ||||||||
| Deferred revenue | ||||||||
| Short term insurance financing | ||||||||
| Convertible notes | ||||||||
| Convertible notes - related party | ||||||||
| Total current liabilities | ||||||||
| Stockholders’ deficit: | ||||||||
| Series A Convertible Preferred stock, $ par value, shares authorized; shares issued and outstanding, as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022. | ||||||||
| Common stock, $ par value, shares authorized; and shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. | ||||||||
| Additional paid-in capital | ||||||||
| Accumulated deficit | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Total stockholders’ deficit | ( | ) | ||||||
| Total liabilities and stockholders’ deficit | $ | $ | ||||||
See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
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Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations
(Unaudited)
| Three Months Ended | Nine Months Ended | |||||||||||||||
| September 30, | September 30, | |||||||||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | |||||||||||||
| Revenue: | ||||||||||||||||
| Revenue, net | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Total revenue | ||||||||||||||||
| Cost of goods sold: | ||||||||||||||||
| Cost of goods sold | ||||||||||||||||
| Total cost of goods sold | ||||||||||||||||
| Gross profit | ||||||||||||||||
| Operating expenses: | ||||||||||||||||
| Research and development | ||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | ||||||||||||||||
| Total operating expenses | ||||||||||||||||
| Loss from operations | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||
| Other income (expense), net | ||||||||||||||||
| Interest expense, net | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||
| Loss on conversion of notes | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||
| Other (expense) income, net | ||||||||||||||||
| Total other income (expense), net | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||
| Net loss | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||||
| Net loss per common share attributable to common stockholders - basic and diluted | $ | ) | $ | ) | $ | ) | $ | ) | ||||||||
| Weighted average number of shares outstanding - basic and diluted | ||||||||||||||||
See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
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Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Deficit
(Unaudited)
| Series A Preferred Stock | Common Stock | Additional Paid-in | Accumulated | Total Stockholders’ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shares | Amount | Shares | Amount | Capital | Deficit | Deficit | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at December 31, 2022 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Issuance of common stock (initial public offering), net of issuance cots | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Issuance of common stock for services | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Conversion of convertible debt to common stock | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at March 31, 2023 | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Issuance of common stock pursuant to warrant exercises | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at June 30, 2023 | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at September 30, 2023 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at December 31, 2021 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Imputed interest | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reclassification of warrant | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at March 31, 2022 | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Imputed interest | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Conversion of convertible notes | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shares cancellation | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at June 30, 2022 | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Imputed interest | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shares issuance for license | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at September 30, 2022 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
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Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(Unaudited)
| Nine Months Ended September 30, | ||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | |||||||
| Cash flows from operating activities: | ||||||||
| Net loss | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||
| Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities: | ||||||||
| Depreciation | ||||||||
| Stock-based compensation | ||||||||
| Shares issued for license | ||||||||
| Shares issued for services | ||||||||
| Loss on conversion of notes | ||||||||
| Amortization of debt discount | ||||||||
| Imputed interest | ||||||||
| Changes in operating assets and liabilities: | ||||||||
| Prepaid expense | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Accounts payable | ( | ) | ||||||
| Accrued expenses | ( | ) | ||||||
| Accrued expenses - related party | ||||||||
| Deferred revenue | ( | ) | ||||||
| Net cash used in operating activities | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Cash flows from investing activities: | ||||||||
| Purchases of property and equipment | ( | ) | ||||||
| Net cash used in investing activities | ( | ) | ||||||
| Cash flows from financing activities: | ||||||||
| Proceeds from issuance of common stock (initial public offering), net of issuance costs | ||||||||
| Proceeds from exercise of warrants | ||||||||
| Proceeds from convertible notes payable | ||||||||
| Proceeds from notes payable | ||||||||
| Payments of notes payable | ( | ) | ||||||
| Repayment of note payable and interest - related party | ( | ) | ||||||
| Proceeds net of payments short term insurance financing | ||||||||
| Net cash provided by financing activities | ||||||||
| Net increase in cash and cash equivalents | ||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period | ||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents, end of period | $ | $ | ||||||
| Supplemental cash flow information: | ||||||||
| Cash paid for interest | $ | $ | ||||||
| Cash paid for taxes | ||||||||
| Supplemental non-cash activity | ||||||||
| Reclassification of warrant | $ | $ | ||||||
| Issuance of common stock upon conversion of notes payable | $ | $ | ||||||
| Conversion of convertible note payable | $ | $ | ||||||
See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
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Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc.
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)
1. Organization and Nature of Business
Description of the Business
Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc. (“we”, “our” or the “Company”) was incorporated in the State of Nevada on February 6, 2020. Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc. is the parent company of Bullfrog AI, Inc. and Bullfrog AI Management, LLC. which were incorporated in Delaware and Maryland, in 2017 and 2021, respectively. All of our operations are currently conducted through Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc., which began operations on February 6, 2020. We are a company focused specifically on advanced AI/ML-driven analysis of complex data sets in medicine and healthcare. Our objective is to utilize our platform for precision medicine approach to drug asset enablement through external partnerships and selective internal development.
Most new therapeutics will fail at some point in preclinical or clinical development. This is the primary driver of the high cost of developing new therapeutics. A major part of the difficulty in developing new therapeutics is efficient integration of complex and highly dimensional data generated at each stage of development to de-risk subsequent stages of the development process. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) has emerged as a digital solution to help address this problem.
We use artificial intelligence and machine learning to advance medicines for both internal and external projects. Most current AI/ML platforms still fall short in their ability to synthesize disparate, high-dimensional data for actionable insight. Our platform technology, named, bfLEAP™ is an analytical AI/ML platform developed at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL) which is able to surmount the challenges of scalability and flexibility currently hindering researchers and clinicians by providing a more precise, multi-dimensional understanding of their data. We are deploying bfLEAP™ for use at several critical stages of development for internal programs and through strategic partnerships and collaborations with the intention of streamlining data analytics in therapeutics development, decreasing the overall development costs by decreasing failure rates for new therapeutics, and impacting the lives of countless patients that may otherwise not receive the therapies they need.
The bfLEAP™ platform utilizes both supervised and unsupervised machine learning – as such, it is able to reveal real/meaningful connections in the data without the need for a priori hypothesis. Algorithms used in the bfLEAP™ platform are designed to handle highly imbalanced data sets to successfully identify combinations of factors that are associated with outcomes of interest.
Our primary goal is to improve the odds of success at any stage of pre-clinical and clinical therapeutics development, for in-house programs, and our strategic partners and collaborators. Our primary business model is enabling the success of ongoing clinical trials or rescue of late stage failed drugs (i.e., Phase 2 or Phase 3 clinical trial failures) for development and divestiture; although, we will also consider collaborations for earlier stage drugs. We hope to accomplish this through strategic acquisitions of current clinical stage and failed drugs for in-house development, or through strategic partnerships with biopharmaceutical industry companies. We are able to pursue our drug asset enhancement business by leveraging a powerful and proven AI/ML platform (trade name: bfLEAP™) initially developed at JHU-APL. We believe the bfLEAP™ analytics platform is a potentially disruptive tool for analysis of pre-clinical and/or clinical data sets, such as the robust pre-clinical and clinical trial data sets being generated in translational R&D and clinical trial settings.
Liquidity and Going Concern
The Company has had negative cash flows from operations and operated at a net loss since inception. In the first quarter of 2023, we completed our initial public offering (“IPO”). We believe that the funds raised and notes that were converted from debt to equity in connection with the IPO now provide enough liquidity to fund operations beyond 9 months from the date of this filing.
2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc. and our wholly owned subsidiaries and have been prepared in conformity with United States generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) for interim financial information. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
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The condensed consolidated statements are unaudited and should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes included in our 2022 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 25, 2023. The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a basis consistent with the audited annual consolidated financial statements included in the 10-K and, in the opinion of management, include all adjustments of a normal recurring nature necessary to fairly state our financial position, our results of operations, and cash flows.
The results for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 are not necessarily indicative of the operating results expected for the year ending December 31, 2023 or any other future period.
On
February 13, 2023, we
Revenue Recognition
The Company recognizes revenue based on the following five step model:
| - | Identification of the contract with a customer |
| This step outlines the criteria that must be met when establishing a contract with a customer to supply goods or services. | |
| - | Identification of the performance obligations in the contract |
| This step describes how distinct performance obligations in the contract must be handled. | |
| - | Determination of the transaction price |
| This step outlines what must be considered when establishing the transaction price, which is the amount the business expects to receive for transferring the goods and services to the customer. | |
| - | Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract |
| This step outlines guidelines for allocating the transaction price across the contract’s separate performance obligations, and is what the customer agrees to pay for the goods and services. | |
| - | Recognition of revenue when, or as, the Company satisfies a performance obligation |
| Revenue can be recognized as the business meets each performance obligation. This step specifies how that should happen. |
Contract Services
The Company anticipates that the majority of revenues to be recognized in the near future will result from our fee for service partnership offering, designed for biopharmaceutical companies, as well as other organizations, of all sizes that have challenges analyzing data throughout the drug development process. The Company provides the customer with an analysis of large complex data sets using the Company’s proprietary Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning platform called bfLEAP™. This platform is designed to predict targets of interest, patterns, relationships, and anomalies. The Company believes that there will be additional on-going work requested from partners therefore the service model utilizes a master services agreement with work or task orders issued for discrete analysis performed at the discovery, preclinical, or clinical stages of drug development. The Company receives a cash fee and in some instances the potential for rights to new intellectual property generated from the analysis. Once data analysis and the analysis report is complete, the Company delivers the analysis set to the customer and recognizes revenue at that point in time.
Significant Accounting Policies
There have been no new or material changes to the significant accounting policies discussed in the Company’s audited financial statements and the notes thereto included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022.
Impact of Recently Issued Accounting Standards
The Company has evaluated issued Accounting Standards Updates (“ASUs”) not yet adopted and believes the adoption of these standards will not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.
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3. Notes Payable Related Party
At
various times in 2021, the Company entered into unsecured short term loan agreements with a related party for an aggregate principal
balance of $
4. Convertible Notes
March 2020 Note
On
March 27, 2020, the Company entered into a convertible loan agreement with the Maryland Technology Development Corporation with a principal
balance of $
August 2021 Note
In
August 2021, the Company entered into a convertible loan agreement with an unrelated party for a commitment of up to $
As
December 31, 2022, the loan was outstanding with a principal balance of $
In
connection with the convertible loan agreement, the Company also issued
December 2021 Note
On
December 20, 2021, the Company entered into a loan agreement with an unrelated party. The loan provided for a
The note was automatically convertible into shares of common stock at a discount to the IPO price or based on the valuation of the Company, whichever was more favorable to the holder.
Initially,
the loan was estimated to be issued with
Concurrent with the closing of the Company’s IPO, the note converted according to its terms into shares of common stock. No gain or loss was recognized on the conversion.
Convertible Bridge Notes
On
April 11, 2022, the Company entered into an Exclusive placement agent and/or underwriter agreement with WallachBeth Capital LLC in connection
with a proposed private and/or public offerings by the Company. On April 28, 2022, the Company received approximately $
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The
Convertible Bridge Notes were initially convertible at the IPO at a
In
connection with the Convertible Bridge Notes, the purchasers were also entitled to conditional warrants to be issued upon completion
of the Company’s IPO.
In
the fourth quarter of 2022, the Company amended the Convertible Bridge Notes to (a) extend the maturity date until December 31, 2022,
(b) provide that the conversion right would include interest through November 30, 2022, with interest accruing beyond that date being
paid in cash and (c) revise the conversion price to be $ based on a $
Concurrent with the closing of the Company’s IPO in February 2023, all of the Convertible Bridge Notes converted according to their terms into shares of common stock. No gain or loss was recognized on the conversion.
5. Convertible Notes – Related Party
SAFE Agreement
On
July 8, 2021, the Company entered into a Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE), with a related party, at a purchase price of $
In
February 2023, the SAFE terminated and converted into shares of common stock according to its terms upon the Company’s closing
of its IPO. The conversion was considered a redemption for accounting purposes and consequently, the Company recognized a $
As
of December 31, 2022, the $
August 2021 Note
On
August 19, 2021, the Company entered into a convertible loan agreement with a related party, with a principal balance of $
In
February 2023, the related party elected to convert the convertible loan into shares of common stock according to its terms upon
the Company’s closing of its IPO. The conversion was considered a redemption for accounting purposes and consequently, the Company
recognized a $
In
connection with the convertible loan agreement, the Company also issued
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6. Notes Payable
In
January 2023 the Company entered into a short-term note payable with a principal balance of $
In
February 2023, the Company entered into an agreement to finance a portion of the premium for its Directors and Officers Insurance. The
agreement provides for financing of $
7. Related Party
During the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company issued stock options to its Chief Financial Officer for services rendered.
During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company issued common stock options to related parties for services rendered. The options have an original life of years and vest over different periods for up to 24 months. During the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, the Company recognized $ and $, respectively, of stock-based compensation related to these options. During the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, the Company recognized $ and $, respectively, of stock-based compensation related to these options.
8. Stockholder’s Equity
Preferred Stock
The
Company has shares of preferred stock authorized at a par value of $ with being designated as Series A Convertible
Preferred Stock. On October 5, 2022, the Company entered into an exchange agreement with an Investor providing for the exchange of
shares of commons stock into shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock. Each share of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock
is convertible at any time into shares of the Company’s common stock. The Series A Preferred Stock is the economic equivalent
of the common stock but has no voting rights and is subject to a blocker which prohibits the conversion into common stock if it would
result in the Investor owning more than
Common Stock
The Company has shares of common stock authorized at a par value of $. During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company:
| ● | Exchanged shares of common stock for shares of Series A Convertible Preferred stock as noted above, | |
| ● | Issued
shares of common stock pursuant to a conversion of $ | |
| ● | Cancelled shares of common stock as the change in number of shares issued as part of the cancellation of the prior agreements and new agreements with advisors, and | |
| ● | Issued
shares of common stock pursuant to a license agreement valued at $ |
After the Company signed two licenses for two drug programs from universities in the first half of 2022 it engaged an independent valuation firm to perform an Enterprise-Equity valuation. The results of this engagement resulted in an increase in the value per share of common stock used in the Black Scholes option pricing model employed to value the Company’s equity grants and warrant issuances.
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In
February 2023, the Company completed its IPO for the sale of units (each, a “Unit,” collectively, the “Units”)
at a price of $ per Unit for a total of approximately $
In connection with the completion of its IPO, the Company issued an aggregate of shares of common stock upon the conversion of certain outstanding convertible debt.
In
connection with the IPO, in February 2023, the Company
In
February 2023, the Company issued shares of common stock for consulting services and recognized $
In
the second quarter of 2023, we issued shares of common stock following the exercise of warrants for proceeds of $
Dilutive securities are excluded from the diluted earnings per share calculation because their effect is anti-dilutive. As of September 30, 2023, warrants and options for common shares were excluded in the calculation of net loss per share. As of September 30, 2022, warrants and options for common shares were excluded in the calculation of net loss per share.
2022 Equity Incentive Plan
In November 2022, the Company’s Board of Directors adopted, and its shareholders approved the 2022 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). The Plan provides for the granting of equity-based awards to employees, directors, and consultants. The Plan provides for equity-based awards including incentive stock options, non-qualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, performance share awards, cash awards and other equity-based awards. Awards are limited to a maximum term of years and any exercise prices shall not be less than 100% of the fair market value of one share of common stock on the grant date. The Plan authorizes an initial maximum number of shares underlying awards of with an automatic annual % increase beginning in 2024. As of September 30, 2023, there were awards authorized but unissued available under the Plan.
Stock Options
| Number of Shares | Weighted-Average Exercise Price | Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Term (Years) | Aggregate Intrinsic Value | |||||||||||||
| Outstanding at December 31, 2022 | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
| Granted | $ | - | $ | |||||||||||||
| Exercised | $ | - | $ | |||||||||||||
| Forfeited / canceled | $ | - | $ | |||||||||||||
| Outstanding at September 30, 2023 | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
| Vested at September 30, 2023 | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
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| 2023 | ||||
| Expected dividend yield | ||||
| Expected volatility | % - | |||
| Risk-free interest rate | %-% | |||
| Expected life (in years) | - | |||
The weighted-average grant-date fair value of options granted during the nine months ended September 30, 2023 was $. No options were issued in the nine months ended September 30, 2022.
No options were exercised in any of the periods presented.
During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recognized $ and $, respectively of compensation expense related to stock options. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company recognized $ and $ of compensation expense, respectively related to stock options.
As of September 30, 2023, the total unrecognized compensation expense related to unvested stock options, was approximately $, which the Company expects to recognize over a weighted-average period of approximately years.
Warrants
During
the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, the Company granted a total of and warrants, respectively. During the nine months ended September 30, 2023, warrants
to purchase shares vested and had a fair value of $. During the year ended December 31, 2022, shares of warrants
were vested and amended with a fair value of $,
During
the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company granted a total of warrants. Of this amount, warrants, with a fair value
of $
During
the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company issued
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The
During the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company issued the following warrants:
| ● | In February 2023, in connection with the completion of the initial public offering, the Company issued contingent warrants to certain debt holders with an exercise price of $ and an expiration date years from issuance. | |
| ● | In February 2023, in connection with the completion of the initial public offering, the Company issued contingent warrants as fees to the Company’s underwriters with an exercise price of $ and an expiration date years from issuance. | |
| ● | As part of the sale of units in the Company’s initial public offering the Company issued tradable warrants with an exercise price of $ and an expiration date years from issuance. Also, as part of the sale of units in the Company’s initial public offering, the Company issued non-tradable warrants with an exercise price of $ and an expiration date years from issuance. | |
| ● | In February 2023, as part of the Company’s initial public offering, the Company issued tradeable warrants to our underwriters pursuant to the overallotment options with an exercise price of $ and an expiration date years from issuance. Also in February 2023, as part of the Company’s initial public offering the Company issued non-tradeable warrants to our underwriters pursuant to the overallotment options with an exercise price of $ and an expiration date years from issuance. |
During
the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recognized $ and $, respectively of compensation expense related
to certain warrants. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company recognized $ and $ of compensation
expense related to certain warrants. As of September 30, 2023, the total unrecognized compensation expense related to unvested warrants
was $
The following table provides details over the Company’s outstanding warrants as of September 30, 2023:
| Exercise Price | Expiration | Number of Warrants | ||||||
| $ | ||||||||
| $ | ||||||||
| $ | ||||||||
| $ | ||||||||
| $ | ||||||||
9. Income Taxes
The Company has not recorded any tax provision or benefit for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022. The Company has provided a valuation allowance for the full amount of its net deferred tax assets since realization of any future benefits from deductible temporary differences, net operating loss carryforwards and research and development credits are not more-likely-than-not to be realized at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022.
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10. Material Agreements
JHU-APL Technology License
On
February 7, 2018, the Company entered into an exclusive, world-wide, royalty-bearing license from JHU-APL for the technology. The license
covers three (3) issued patents, one (1) new provisional patent application, non-patent rights to proprietary libraries of algorithms
and other trade secrets, the license also includes modifications and improvements. In October of 2021, the Company executed an amendment
to the original license which represents improvements and new advanced analytics capabilities. In consideration of the rights granted
to the Company under the License Agreement JHU received a warrant equal to five percent (
On
May 31, 2023, the Company and JHU-APL entered into Amendment number 1 of the July 8, 2022 License Agreement whereby the Company gained
access to certain improvements including additional patents and knowhow in exchange for a series of payments totaling $
George Washington University - Beta2-spectrin siRNA License
On January 14, 2022, the Company entered into an exclusive, world-wide, royalty-bearing license from George Washington University (GWU) for rights to use siRNA targeting Beta2-spectrin in the treatment of human diseases, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The license covers methods claimed in three US and worldwide patent applications, and also includes use of this approach for treatment of obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.
In
consideration of the rights granted to the Company under the License Agreement the Company paid GWU a $
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Johns Hopkins University – Mebendazole License
On February 22, 2022, the Company entered into an exclusive, world-wide, royalty-bearing license from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) for the use of an improved formulation of Mebendazole for the treatment of any human cancer or neoplastic disease. This formulation shows potent activity in animal models of different types of cancer and has been evaluated in a Phase I clinical trial in patients with high-grade glioma (NCT01729260). The trial, an open-label dose-escalation study, assessed the safety and efficacy of the improved formulation with adjuvant temozolomide in 24 patients with newly diagnosed gliomas. Investigators observed no dose-limiting toxicity in patients receiving all but the highest tested dose (200mg/kg/day). Four of the 15 patients receiving the maximum tested dose of 200mg/kg/day experienced dose-limiting toxicity, all of which were reversed by decreasing or eliminating the dose given. There were no serious adverse events attributed to Mebendazole at any dose during the trial. 41.7% of patients who received Mebendazole were alive at two years after enrollment, and 25% were alive at four years (Gallia et al., 2021).
The
license covers six (6) issued patents and one (1) pending application. In consideration of the rights granted to the Company under the
License Agreement, JHU will receive a staggered Upfront License Fee of $
Johns Hopkins University – Prodrug License
On
October 13, 2022, the Company entered into an exclusive, world-wide, royalty-bearing license from JHU and the Institute of Organic Chemistry
and Biochemistry (IOCB) of the Czech Academy of Sciences for rights to commercialize N-substituted prodrugs of Mebendazole that demonstrate
improved solubility and bioavailability. The license covers prodrug compositions and use for treating disease as claimed in multiple
US and worldwide patent applications. In consideration for the rights granted to the Company under the License Agreement JHU and IOCB
will receive a staggered upfront license fee of $
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| Item 2. | Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Conditions and Results of Operation |
References in this Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations to “us”, “we”, “our” and similar terms refer to the Company. The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with (1) our consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, and (2) our consolidated financial statements, related notes and management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 25, 2022. This Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements 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. These statements are often identified by the use of words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “project,” “will,” “would” or the negative or plural of these words or similar expressions or variations. Such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and other factors that could cause actual results and the timing of certain events to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those identified herein. You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Furthermore, such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this report. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of such statements.
Overview
Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in the State of Nevada on February 6, 2020. Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc. is the parent company of Bullfrog AI, Inc. and Bullfrog AI Management, LLC, which were incorporated in Delaware and Maryland, in 2017 and 2021, respectively. Operations are currently conducted through Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc., which began operations on February 6, 2020. We are a company focused specifically on advanced Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML) analysis of complex data in the advancement of medicine. Our AI/ML platform (trade name: bfLEAP™) was created from technology originally developed at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL).
In February 2018, Bullfrog AI Holdings secured the original exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing license from JHU-APL for the technology. The license covers three (3)issued patents, one (1) new provisional patent application, non-patent rights to proprietary libraries of algorithms and other trade secrets including modifications and improvements. We entered into a license agreement in July 2022 that provides the Company with new intellectual property and also encompasses most of the intellectual property from the February 2018 license. Our objective is to utilize bfLEAP™ for a precision medicine approach toward drug development with biopharmaceutical collaborators, as well as our own internal clinical development programs. We believe the bfLEAP™ platform is ideally suited for evaluating pre-clinical and clinical trial data generated in translational research and clinical trial settings that lead to faster, less expensive drug approvals.
Our aim is to improve the odds of success in each stage of developing medicine, ranging from early pre-clinical through late-stage clinical development. Our ultimate objective is to utilize bfLEAP™ to enable the success of ongoing clinical trials or rescue late-stage failed drugs (i.e., Phase 2 or Phase 3 clinical trial failures) for development and divestiture; although, we will also consider collaborations for earlier stage drugs. We hope to accomplish this through strategic acquisitions of current clinical stage and failed drugs for in-house development, or through strategic partnerships with biopharmaceutical industry companies.
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On July 8, 2022, the Company entered into an exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing license from JHU-APL for the additional technology. The new license provides additional intellectual property rights including patents, copyrights, and knowhow to be utilized under the Company’s bfLEAP™ analytical AI/ML platform. In consideration of the new license, the Company issued to JHU-APL 39,879 shares of common stock. In September 2020 and October of 2021, the Company executed amendments to the original license which represents improvements and new advanced analytics capabilities. In consideration of the rights granted to the Company under the original License Agreement, the Company granted JHU 178,571 warrants exercisable to purchase shares of common stock at $2.10 per share. Under the terms of the new License Agreement, JHU will be entitled to eight percent (8%) of net sales for the services provided by the Company to other parties and three percent (3%) for internally developed drug projects in which the JHU license was utilized. The new license also contains tiered sub licensing fees that start at 50% and reduce to 25% based on revenues. On May 31, 2023, the Company and JHU-APL entered into Amendment number 1 of the July 8, 2022 License Agreement whereby the Company gained access to certain improvements including additional patents and knowhow in exchange for a series of payments totaling $275,000. The first of these payments for $75,000 was due in July 2023 followed by annual payments of $75,000, $75,000 and $50,000 in years 2024, 2025 and 2026, respectively. The amendment also reduced the 2023 minimum annual royalty payment to $60,000, all other financial terms remain the same. As a result of this Amendment, the minimum annual payments are set to be $30,000 for 2022, $60,000 for 2023, and $300,000 for 2024 and beyond, all of which are creditable by royalties.
We intend to continue to evolve and improve bfLEAP™, either in-house or with development partners like JHU-APL. We plan to leverage our proprietary AI/ML platform developed over several years at one of the top innovation institutions in the world which has already been successfully applied in multiple sectors.
We have staffed our business using funds from our initial public offering and have entered into partnerships and relationships and recently completed our first commercial service contract with a leading rare disease non-profit organization for AI/ML analysis of late-stage clinical data. We have also acquired the rights to a series of preclinical and early clinical drug assets from universities, as well as a strategic collaboration with a world-renowned research institution to create a HSV1 viral therapeutic platform to engineer immunotherapies for a variety of diseases. We have signed exclusive worldwide License Agreements with JHU for a cancer drug that targets glioblastoma (brain cancer), pancreatic cancer, and others. We have also signed an exclusive worldwide license from George Washington University for another cancer drug that targets hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer) and other liver diseases. Additionally, we intend to gain access to later-stage clinical assets through partnerships or the acquisition of rights to failed therapeutic candidates for drug rescue. In certain circumstances, we intend to conduct late-stage clinical trials in an effort to rescue therapeutic assets that previously failed. In these cases, there will be a requirement for drug supply and regulatory services to conduct clinical trials. The success of our clinical development programs will require finding partners to support the clinical development, adequate availability of raw materials and/or drug product for our R&D and clinical trials, and, in some cases, may also require establishment of third-party arrangements to obtain finished drug product that is manufactured appropriately under (GMP) industry-standard guidelines, and packaged for clinical use or sale. Since we are a company focused on using our AI technology to advance medicines, any clinical development programs will also require, in all cases, partners and the establishment of third-party relationships for execution and completion of clinical trials. Over the next 24 months, the Company expects to spend approximately $2.1 million on service offering products, preclinical IND enabling activities and on R&D to enable future clinical trials evaluating our drug assets for new disease indications.
Since completing our IPO on February 14, 2023, aided by the receipt of the IPO proceeds, we have initiated several initiatives: Investor relations and marketing to promote and raise awareness of the company in the financial and business sectors, research and development, collaboration with J Craig Venter Institute and in the quarter ended September 30, 2023, completed a preclinical study for our Mebendazole prodrug program. The Company is actively engaged in developing and seeking out new intellectual property as it strives to continuously evolve its AI/ML platform. Additionally, the Company has engaged a business development firm specializing in the biopharmaceutical industry to seek and secure a strategic development partner our Mebendazole program.
Internally, the Company has added incremental staff to accelerate execution, and the development of processes and custom scripts for use in performing analytical services for customers, while also launching initiatives targeting large public health data sources and seeking access to proprietary health data sources. We also transitioned our accounting and financial reporting systems and processes to enhance our internal control environment as a public company. Capital from the IPO was also used to retire two notes that were sold to fund the Company through the IPO that did not convert into common stock as well as other debts accrued over time to our staff, employees and consultants as well as obligations related to the acquisition of our licensed drug programs.
In addition to the IPO proceeds, the Company received proceeds of approximately $1.5 million from the exercise of warrants in April 2023 and in the absence of significant revenues in 2023 the Company believes that its capital resources are sufficient to fund planned operations for approximately 9 months from the date of this filing.
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Our Strategy
The Company has a unique strategy designed to reduce risk and increase the frequency of cash flow. The first part of the strategy is to generate revenues through strategic relationships with biopharma companies. These relationships will be structured as a combination of fees and intellectual property based on the specific scope of the engagement. The objective of these engagements will be to uncover valuable insights to reduce the risk and/or increase the speed of the drug development process which can be achieved through manual or automated integration into the client’s workflow or analysis of discrete data sets.
In the future, the second part of our strategy involves acquiring the rights to clinical stage drugs, using our bfLEAP™ technology to design a precision medicine trial, conduct the trial with a partner, and sell the asset. This approach may also apply to earlier phases in the drug development process such as discovery and preclinical. In any case, the objective is to create near term value and exit and monetize as quickly as possible, preferably within approximately 30 months.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Our financial statements are prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue and expenses, as well as related disclosures. We evaluate our estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis. Our estimates are based on historical experience and various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. Our actual results could differ from these estimates. There have been no material changes to our critical accounting policies and estimates as described in our Form 10-K.
Financial Operations Overview
Revenue
While we generated our first revenues in late 2022 from our services provided to a pharmaceutical customer, in Q3 2023 we completed our first commercial service contract and recognized revenue in the amount of $65,000. We have service contracts with two organizations and currently have multiple discussions underway, although there can be no assurance of entering into additional service agreements and business relationships in 2023.
Operating Expenses
We classify our operating expenses into two categories: research and development and general and administrative. Prior to 2022, most of our activities were related to: technology evaluation, acquisition and validation, capital acquisition and business development activities in general, which we believe have readied the Company for contract services while exploring strategic partnering and asset acquisition. These activities and related expenditures have been recorded and reported as General and Administrative in our Financial Statements. In 2022, we licensed two drug development programs from universities and also entered into a new license with JHU-APL for new IP and other enhancements used with our bfLEAP™ platform. In 2022, we expended appropriately $608,000 on license related payments for our bfLEAP™ AI/ML platform and our two drug development programs from universities. We expect that our research and development expenses will increase in 2024 as we initiate activities directed towards the development of service offering products, collaborations (JCVI) and preclinical studies aimed at generating the data to enable the filing of an Investigational New Drug (IND) application.
Research and Development Costs and Expenses
Research and development costs and expenses in 2022 consisted primarily of costs related to the acquisition of licensed technology. In 2023 we have initiated development activities on our licensed drug candidates and our discovery collaboration with JCVI. In addition to fees paid to external service providers, we are also allocating internal costs for personnel working on these efforts in addition to personnel costs related to our internal efforts to develop our product and service offerings using bfLEAP™. We anticipate our research and development costs could become significant as we execute on our business plan and begin conducting preclinical research and development activities directed at securing development partners and filing an IND for our licensed drug development programs described in this filing, as well as under strategic partnerships and for other drug development programs we may acquire. Research and development expenses are recorded in operating expenses in the period in which they are incurred. Estimates will be used in determining the expense liability of certain costs where services have been performed but not yet invoiced. We will monitor levels of performance under each significant contract for external services through communications with the service providers to reflect the actual amount expended.
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General and Administrative Expenses
In anticipation of the IPO, a management team with deep industry experience was identified and engaged as employees and consultants to assist the Company in preparing for the IPO and subsequently, to operate and function as a public company. Through 2022, the primary activities included: technology evaluation, acquisition and validation, capital acquisition and business development activities which in general, have readied the Company for contract services while exploring strategic partnering and asset acquisition as noted above. In February 2023, the Company achieved its objective of completing an IPO and listing on NASDAQ. Our 2023 general and administrative expenses are significantly higher than our 2022 general and administrative expenses due to several factors. The primary increases in 2023 relate to new costs associated with being a public company such as D&O insurance, professional services engaged to support SEC compliance as well as higher salary and consulting expenses as we have hired additional staff and consultants. We have also increased our business development, investor relations and marketing efforts. We anticipate that our general and administrative expenses may increase in the future to support our service offerings, clinical and pre-clinical research and development activities associated with strategic partnering and collaborations.
Results of Operations - Comparison of Three Months Ended September 30, 2023 and 2022
Revenue and Costs of Goods Sold
We recognized $65,000 in revenue and $5,200 in costs of goods sold during the three months ended September 30, 2023 versus zero 2022.
Three Months Ended September 30, | Net Change | |||||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | |||||||||||
| Operating expenses: | ||||||||||||
| Research and development | $ | 380,015 | $ | 39,421 | $ | 340,594 | ||||||
| General and administrative | 983,929 | 601,131 | 382,798 | |||||||||
| Total operating expenses | $ | 1,363,944 | $ | 640,552 | $ | 723,392 | ||||||
Research and Development
Our research and development expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2023 increased by $340,594, compared to the same period ended September 30, 2022, primarily due to the inclusion of the cost of salaries and consulting fees in 2023, as well the cost of acquiring access to additional technology from JHU-APL related to bfLEAP™ pursuant to Amendment 1 of the July 2022 License Agreement. We also completed a preclinical study related to our Mebendazole program in Q3 2023. In 2022, the majority of the research and development expenses were directly related to the acquisition of two drug development product candidates including Mebendazole.
General and Administrative
Our general and administrative expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2023 increased by $382,798, compared to the same period ended September 30, 2022, primarily due to higher salary and consulting costs reflecting an increased level of services as well as the initiation of investor relations and marketing efforts and the transition of our accounting and financial reporting process to support a public company.
Other Income (Expense), Net
Interest expense decreased $118,401 for the three months ended September 30, 2023, compared to the same period ended September 30, 2022 due to the majority of our debt converting or being paid off in the first quarter of 2023. Other income increased by $56,906 due to interest earned on our IPO proceeds which we hold in an overnight sweep account.
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Results of Operations - Comparison of Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023 and 2022
Revenue and Costs of Goods Sold
We recognized $65,000 in revenue and $5,200 in costs of goods sold during the nine months ended September 30, 2023 versus zero 2022.
| Nine Months Ended September 30, | Net Change | |||||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | |||||||||||
| Operating expenses: | ||||||||||||
| Research and development | $ | 1,023,619 | $ | 448,375 | $ | 575,244 | ||||||
| General and administrative | 3,067,940 | 1,424,383 | 1,643,557 | |||||||||
| Total operating expenses | $ | 4,091,559 | $ | 1,872,758 | $ | 2,218,801 | ||||||
Research and Development
Our research and development expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 increased by $575,244 compared to the same period ended September 30, 2022, primarily due to the inclusion of the cost of salaries and consulting fees in 2023 as we initiated our collaboration with J Craig Venter Institute and completion of a preclinical study for our Mebendazole prodrug program, as well as the cost of acquiring access to additional technology from JHU-APL related to bfLEAP™ pursuant to Amendment 1 of the July 2022 License Agreement. In 2022, the majority of the research and development expenses were directly related to the acquisition of two drug development product candidates including Mebendazole.
General and Administrative
Our general and administrative expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 increased by $1,643,557, compared to the same period ended September 30, 2022, primarily due to higher salary and consulting costs reflecting an increased level of service as well the initiation of investor relations and marketing efforts and the transition of our accounting and financial reporting process to support a public company. The 2023 period also reflects approximately $120,000 in recruiting fees related to staff additions.
Other Income (Expense), Net
Interest expense decreased $157,788 for the nine months ended September 30, 2023, compared to the same period ended September 30, 2022 due to the majority of our debt converting or being paid off in the first quarter of 2023. The loss on the conversion of notes of $92,959 for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 was due to the conversion of the convertible notes. Other income increased by $142,218 due to interest earned on our IPO proceeds which we hold in an overnight sweep account.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
In 2022, the Company received net proceeds from the sale of Convertible Bridge Notes of approximately $1,016,000 and repaid the unsecured promissory notes sold in 2021 in the amount of $49,000. The Company sold one additional promissory note and received net proceeds of $100,000 in January 2023.
For the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company used approximately $911,000 on operating activities versus approximately $382,000 for the same period in 2021. The 2022 cash use included approximately $548,000 in salaries, approximately $634,000 in consulting and professional fees including legal, accounting and auditing fees ,as well as consulting fees for operational activities and approximately $609,000 in technology license fees, patent cost reimbursements and minimum annual royalties which has been recorded as a research & development expense.
Through September 30, 2023, the Company has an accumulated deficit of $8,457,978 and funded its operations through the sale of common stock and debt. We anticipate that our expenses will increase in the future to support our service offerings, clinical and pre-clinical research and development activities associated with strategic partnering and collaborations, as well as acquired product candidates and the increased costs of operating as a public company. These increases could include increased costs related to the hiring of additional personnel and fees to outside consultants, lawyers and accountants, among other expenses. Additionally, we anticipate increased costs associated with being a public company including expenses related to services associated with maintaining compliance with exchange listing and Securities and Exchange Commission requirements, insurance, and investor relations costs.
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The Company’s current operations include Bullfrog AI, Inc. and Bullfrog Management, LLC, which are wholly owned subsidiaries of Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc., which is a holding company that depends upon the sale of its securities and cash generated through its subsidiaries to fund consolidated operations.
On February 16, 2023, the Company completed its IPO of 1,297,318 units (each, a “Unit,” collectively, the “Units”) at a price of $6.50 per unit for a total of approximately $8.4 million of gross proceeds to the Company. Each Unit consists of one share of the Company’s common stock, one tradeable warrant (each, a “Tradeable Warrant,” collectively, the “Tradeable Warrants”) to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $7.80 per share, and one non-tradeable warrant (each, a “Non-tradeable Warrant,” collectively, the “Non-tradeable Warrants”; together with the Tradeable Warrants, each, a “Warrant,” collectively, the “Warrants”) to purchase one share of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of $8.125. In connection with the IPO, the Company also completed a 1-for-7 reverse stock split of our common stock.
In connection with the IPO, a SAFE and convertible loan agreement held by a related party converted into 55,787 shares of post reverse split common stock. Additionally, all outstanding convertible bridge notes and accrued interest through November 30, 2022 were converted into 276,289 shares of common stock and 276,289 warrants to purchase common stock were issued to the Convertible Bridge Note holders at conversion. The convertible bridge note conversions and the warrant exercise pricing was determined using a $25 million dollar company valuation immediately before the IPO.
Between April 5 and April 13, 2023, the holders of warrants exercised 436,533 warrants for common stock at various exercise prices and the Company received proceeds of approximately $1,495,000.
In the absence of significant revenues in 2023, management believes the Company’s capital resources are sufficient to fund planned operations for approximately 9 months from the date of this filing.
Consolidated Cash Flow Data
| Nine Months Ended September 30, | ||||||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | Change | ||||||||||
| Net cash (used in) provided by | ||||||||||||
| Operating activities | $ | (4,983,282 | ) | $ | (871,244 | ) | $ | (4,112,038 | ) | |||
| Investing activities | - | (8,744 | ) | $ | 8,744 | |||||||
| Financing activities | 8,781,649 | 912,190 | $ | 7,869,459 | ||||||||
| Net increase in cash and cash equivalents | $ | 3,798,367 | $ | 32,202 | $ | 3,766,165 | ||||||
Cash Flows Used in Operating Activities
Net cash used in operating activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 increased by $4,112,038 compared to the same period ended September 30, 2022 primarily due to paying down accrued expenses for technology access, consultants, and compensation in 2023, coupled with increased operating costs, including D&O insurance premiums.
Cash Flows Used in Investing Activities
There was no cash used in investing activities during the nine months ended September 30, 2023.
Cash Flows Provided by Financing Activities
Net cash provided by financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 increased by $7,869,459, compared to the same period ended September 30, 2022 primarily due to the completion of our Initial Public Offering in February 2023 and proceeds received pursuant to warrant exercises.
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| Item 3. | Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk |
As a smaller reporting company, this disclosure is not required.
| Item 4. | Controls and Procedures |
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We are transitioning to and will maintain disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and timely reported as provided in SEC rules and forms and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, as appropriate, to allow for timely decisions regarding required disclosure. We will periodically review the design and effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures, including compliance with various laws and regulations that apply to our operations. We will make modifications to improve the design and effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures and may take other corrective action if our reviews identify a need for such modifications or actions. In designing and evaluating the disclosure controls and procedures, we recognize that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives, and we will apply judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. In addition, the design of any system of controls also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions; over time, controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or the degree of compliance with policies or procedures may deteriorate. Because of the inherent limitations in a control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
During the 3 months ended September 30, 2023, the Company transitioned its day-to-day accounting processes to a new external firm including automating its vendor payments while also initiating the transfer of the overall process to an enterprise type accounting platform. These changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that occurred during the quarter ended September 30, 2023 are intended to enhance our internal control over financial reporting.
PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
| Item 1 | Legal Proceedings. |
To our best knowledge, we are currently not a party to any legal proceedings that, individually or in the aggregate, are deemed to be material to our financial condition or results of operations.
| Item 1A | Risk Factors. |
Smaller reporting companies are not required to provide the information required by this item.
| Item 2 | Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds. |
There were no issuances of unregistered sales of equity securities during the three months ended September 30, 2023.
Use of Proceeds
Since completing our IPO in February, 2023, we have used approximately $5 million of the net proceeds, primarily on D&O Insurance, repayment of debt that was not converted in the IPO and working capital.
| Item 3 | Defaults Upon Senior Securities. |
None.
| Item 4 | Mine Safety Disclosures. |
Not applicable.
| Item 5 | Other Information. |
(c) Insider Trading Arrangements
Trading Plans
On
No other directors or executive officers of the Company adopted, modified or terminated any contract, instruction or written plan for the purchase or sale of the Company’s securities that was intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c) or any non-Rule 10b5 trading arrangement, (as defined in Item 408(c) of Regulation S-K) during the quarterly period covered by this report.
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| Item 6. | EXHIBITS |
Exhibit No. |
Description | |
| 31.1 * | Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a). | |
| 31.2 * | Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a). | |
| 32.1 * | Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. | |
| 32.2 * | Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. | |
| 101.INS * | Inline XBRL Instance Document. | |
| 101.SCH* * | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document. | |
| 101.CAL* * | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document. | |
| 101.DEF* * | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document. | |
| 101.LAB* * | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document. | |
| 101.PRE * | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document. | |
| 104 | The cover page from the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2023, formatted in Inline XBRL (included in Exhibit 101). |
| * | Filed herewith. |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
| Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc. | ||
| Date: November 14, 2023 | By: | /s/ Vininder Singh |
| Vininder Singh | ||
| Chief Executive Officer | ||
| Date: November 14, 2023 | By: | /s/ Dane Saglio |
| Dane Saglio | ||
| Chief Financial Officer | ||
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EXHIBIT 31.1
SECTION 302
CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
I, Vininder Singh, certify that:
(1) I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc.;
(2) Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
(3) Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
(4) The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and we have:
(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
(b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
(5) The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
| November 14, 2023 | ||
| By: | /s/ Vininder Singh | |
Vininder Singh Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) |
EXHIBIT 31.2
SECTION 302
CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
I, Dane Saglio, certify that:
(1) I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc.;
(2) Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
(3) Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
(4) The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and we have:
(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
(b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
(5) The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
| November 14, 2023 | ||
| By: | /s/ Dane Saglio | |
Dane Saglio Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer) |
EXHIBIT 32.1
CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
PURSUANT TO SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
I, Vininder Singh, hereby certify pursuant to Rule 13a-14(b) or Rule 15d-14(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, that the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc., (the “Company”) for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2023 (the “Report”) fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and that the information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
| By: | /s/ Vininder Singh |
| /s/ Vininder Singh | |
| Vininder Singh, Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) |
November 14, 2023
The certification set forth above is being furnished as an Exhibit solely pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and is not being filed as part of the Report or as a separate disclosure document of Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc. or the certifying officers.
EXHIBIT 32.2
CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
PURSUANT TO SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
I, Dane Saglio, hereby certify pursuant to Rule 13a-14(b) or Rule 15d-14(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, that the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2023 (the “Report”) fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and that the information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
| By: | /s/ Dane Saglio |
| /s/ Dane Saglio | |
| Dane Saglio, Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer) |
November 14, 2023
The certification set forth above is being furnished as an Exhibit solely pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and is not being filed as part of the Report or as a separate disclosure document of Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc. or the certifying officers.
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited) (Parenthetical) - $ / shares |
Sep. 30, 2023 |
Dec. 31, 2022 |
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| Preferred stock, par value | $ 0.00001 | |
| Preferred stock, shares authorized | 10,000,000 | |
| Common stock, par value | $ 0.00001 | $ 0.00001 |
| Common stock, shares authorized | 100,000,000 | 100,000,000 |
| Common stock, shares, issued | 6,094,644 | 4,021,935 |
| Common stock, shares, outstanding | 6,094,644 | 4,021,935 |
| Series A Convertible Preferred Stock [Member] | ||
| Preferred stock, par value | $ 0.00001 | $ 0.00001 |
| Preferred stock, shares authorized | 5,500,000 | 5,500,000 |
| Preferred stock, shares issued | 73,449 | 73,449 |
| Preferred stock, shares outstanding | 73,449 | 73,449 |
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (Unaudited) - USD ($) |
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| Revenue: | ||||
| Revenue, net | $ 65,000 | $ 65,000 | ||
| Total revenue | 65,000 | 65,000 | ||
| Cost of goods sold: | ||||
| Cost of goods sold | 5,200 | 5,200 | ||
| Total cost of goods sold | 5,200 | 5,200 | ||
| Gross profit | 59,800 | 59,800 | ||
| Operating expenses: | ||||
| Research and development | 380,015 | 39,421 | 1,023,619 | 448,375 |
| General and administrative | 983,929 | 601,131 | 3,067,940 | 1,424,383 |
| Total operating expenses | 1,363,944 | 640,552 | 4,091,559 | 1,872,758 |
| Loss from operations | (1,304,144) | (640,552) | (4,031,759) | (1,872,758) |
| Other income (expense), net | ||||
| Interest expense, net | (5,758) | (124,159) | (76,880) | (234,668) |
| Loss on conversion of notes | (92,959) | |||
| Other (expense) income, net | 56,924 | 18 | 142,675 | 457 |
| Total other income (expense), net | 51,166 | (124,141) | (27,164) | (234,211) |
| Net loss | $ (1,252,978) | $ (764,693) | $ (4,058,923) | $ (2,106,969) |
| Net loss per common share attributable to common stockholders basic | $ (0.21) | $ (0.16) | $ (0.72) | $ (0.45) |
| Net loss per common share attributable to common stockholders diluted | $ (0.21) | $ (0.16) | $ (0.72) | $ (0.45) |
| Weighted average number of shares outstanding - basic | 6,094,644 | 4,752,959 | 5,667,997 | 4,669,952 |
| Weighted average number of shares outstanding - diluted | 6,094,644 | 4,752,959 | 5,667,997 | 4,669,952 |
Pay vs Performance Disclosure - USD ($) |
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| Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent | $ (1,252,978) | $ (1,480,398) | $ (1,325,547) | $ (764,693) | $ (775,917) | $ (566,359) | $ (4,058,923) | $ (2,106,969) |
Insider Trading Arrangements |
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| Trading Arrangements, by Individual [Table] | |
| Material Terms of Trading Arrangement |
On June 6, 2023, Vininder Singh, the Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Company, entered into a 10b5-1 sales plan (the “10b-5 Sales Plan”) intended to satisfy the affirmative defense of Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act. The 10b5 Sales Plan provides for the sale of up to 1,000,000 shares of common stock and will remain in effect until the earlier of (1) September 30, 2024; or (2) the date on which an aggregate 1,000,000 shares of common stock have been sold under the 10b5 Sales Plan. Pursuant to the 10b5 Sales Plan a total of 50,000 shares were sold under the plan in September 2023.
No other directors or executive officers of the Company adopted, modified or terminated any contract, instruction or written plan for the purchase or sale of the Company’s securities that was intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c) or any non-Rule 10b5 trading arrangement, (as defined in Item 408(c) of Regulation S-K) during the quarterly period covered by this report. |
| Name | Vininder Singh |
| Title | Chief Executive Officer and Director |
| Adoption Date | June 6, 2023 |
| Termination Date | September 30, 2024 |
| Aggregate Available | 1,000,000 |
| Rule 10b5 Sales Plan [Member] | |
| Trading Arrangements, by Individual [Table] | |
| Aggregate Available | 50,000 |
Organization and Nature of Business |
9 Months Ended |
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Sep. 30, 2023 | |
| Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] | |
| Organization and Nature of Business | 1. Organization and Nature of Business
Description of the Business
Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc. (“we”, “our” or the “Company”) was incorporated in the State of Nevada on February 6, 2020. Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc. is the parent company of Bullfrog AI, Inc. and Bullfrog AI Management, LLC. which were incorporated in Delaware and Maryland, in 2017 and 2021, respectively. All of our operations are currently conducted through Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc., which began operations on February 6, 2020. We are a company focused specifically on advanced AI/ML-driven analysis of complex data sets in medicine and healthcare. Our objective is to utilize our platform for precision medicine approach to drug asset enablement through external partnerships and selective internal development.
Most new therapeutics will fail at some point in preclinical or clinical development. This is the primary driver of the high cost of developing new therapeutics. A major part of the difficulty in developing new therapeutics is efficient integration of complex and highly dimensional data generated at each stage of development to de-risk subsequent stages of the development process. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) has emerged as a digital solution to help address this problem.
We use artificial intelligence and machine learning to advance medicines for both internal and external projects. Most current AI/ML platforms still fall short in their ability to synthesize disparate, high-dimensional data for actionable insight. Our platform technology, named, bfLEAP™ is an analytical AI/ML platform developed at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL) which is able to surmount the challenges of scalability and flexibility currently hindering researchers and clinicians by providing a more precise, multi-dimensional understanding of their data. We are deploying bfLEAP™ for use at several critical stages of development for internal programs and through strategic partnerships and collaborations with the intention of streamlining data analytics in therapeutics development, decreasing the overall development costs by decreasing failure rates for new therapeutics, and impacting the lives of countless patients that may otherwise not receive the therapies they need.
The bfLEAP™ platform utilizes both supervised and unsupervised machine learning – as such, it is able to reveal real/meaningful connections in the data without the need for a priori hypothesis. Algorithms used in the bfLEAP™ platform are designed to handle highly imbalanced data sets to successfully identify combinations of factors that are associated with outcomes of interest.
Our primary goal is to improve the odds of success at any stage of pre-clinical and clinical therapeutics development, for in-house programs, and our strategic partners and collaborators. Our primary business model is enabling the success of ongoing clinical trials or rescue of late stage failed drugs (i.e., Phase 2 or Phase 3 clinical trial failures) for development and divestiture; although, we will also consider collaborations for earlier stage drugs. We hope to accomplish this through strategic acquisitions of current clinical stage and failed drugs for in-house development, or through strategic partnerships with biopharmaceutical industry companies. We are able to pursue our drug asset enhancement business by leveraging a powerful and proven AI/ML platform (trade name: bfLEAP™) initially developed at JHU-APL. We believe the bfLEAP™ analytics platform is a potentially disruptive tool for analysis of pre-clinical and/or clinical data sets, such as the robust pre-clinical and clinical trial data sets being generated in translational R&D and clinical trial settings.
Liquidity and Going Concern
The Company has had negative cash flows from operations and operated at a net loss since inception. In the first quarter of 2023, we completed our initial public offering (“IPO”). We believe that the funds raised and notes that were converted from debt to equity in connection with the IPO now provide enough liquidity to fund operations beyond 9 months from the date of this filing.
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| Summary of Significant Accounting Policies | 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc. and our wholly owned subsidiaries and have been prepared in conformity with United States generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) for interim financial information. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
The condensed consolidated statements are unaudited and should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes included in our 2022 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 25, 2023. The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a basis consistent with the audited annual consolidated financial statements included in the 10-K and, in the opinion of management, include all adjustments of a normal recurring nature necessary to fairly state our financial position, our results of operations, and cash flows.
The results for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 are not necessarily indicative of the operating results expected for the year ending December 31, 2023 or any other future period.
On February 13, 2023, we completed a 1-for-7 reverse split of our common stock. Stockholders’ equity and all references to shares and per share amounts in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been adjusted to reflect the reverse stock split for all periods presented.
Revenue Recognition
The Company recognizes revenue based on the following five step model:
Contract Services
The Company anticipates that the majority of revenues to be recognized in the near future will result from our fee for service partnership offering, designed for biopharmaceutical companies, as well as other organizations, of all sizes that have challenges analyzing data throughout the drug development process. The Company provides the customer with an analysis of large complex data sets using the Company’s proprietary Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning platform called bfLEAP™. This platform is designed to predict targets of interest, patterns, relationships, and anomalies. The Company believes that there will be additional on-going work requested from partners therefore the service model utilizes a master services agreement with work or task orders issued for discrete analysis performed at the discovery, preclinical, or clinical stages of drug development. The Company receives a cash fee and in some instances the potential for rights to new intellectual property generated from the analysis. Once data analysis and the analysis report is complete, the Company delivers the analysis set to the customer and recognizes revenue at that point in time.
Significant Accounting Policies
There have been no new or material changes to the significant accounting policies discussed in the Company’s audited financial statements and the notes thereto included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022.
Impact of Recently Issued Accounting Standards
The Company has evaluated issued Accounting Standards Updates (“ASUs”) not yet adopted and believes the adoption of these standards will not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.
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Notes Payable Related Party |
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| Notes Payable Related Party | 3. Notes Payable Related Party
At various times in 2021, the Company entered into unsecured short term loan agreements with a related party for an aggregate principal balance of $49,000, each with a one-year maturity date, accruing interest at 5% and imputing an additional 1% interest. The full amount of the loans and interest was repaid in 2022.
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Convertible Notes |
9 Months Ended |
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| Debt Disclosure [Abstract] | |
| Convertible Notes | 4. Convertible Notes
March 2020 Note
On March 27, 2020, the Company entered into a convertible loan agreement with the Maryland Technology Development Corporation with a principal balance of $200,000 at 6% interest. The maturity date of the loan was September 27, 2021. During the year ended December 31, 2022, the full amount of the loan and interest totaling $226,138 was converted into shares of common stock of the Company, in accordance with the conversion notice submitted by the noteholder. Pursuant to the note agreement, the number of shares that the note converted into was based on the note balance plus accrued interest, divided by $5,000,000, times the fully diluted equity of the company, excluding convertible securities issued for capital raising purposes. There was no gain or loss due to conversion being within the terms of the agreement.
August 2021 Note
In August 2021, the Company entered into a convertible loan agreement with an unrelated party for a commitment of up to $195,000 with a 5% original issue discount and a 9% interest rate. The loan provided for a maturity date of February 9, 2022. We borrowed $72,000 and $123,000 of principal in the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2022, respectively. The noteholder had the right to convert the principal and interest into common shares of the Company at the IPO at a 20% discount to the IPO price.
As December 31, 2022, the loan was outstanding with a principal balance of $195,000 and accrued interest of $35,078. The loan was paid in its entirety in February 2023.
In connection with the convertible loan agreement, the Company also issued 195,000 Warrants with an exercise price of $ exercisable for five years from issuance. In May 2022, the Company and the note holder agreed to cancel and void the warrants and enter into a new agreement for 225,000 warrants with an exercise price of $. The Company assessed the differences in fair value and determined that they were de minimis and expensed the full value of the new warrants.
December 2021 Note
On December 20, 2021, the Company entered into a loan agreement with an unrelated party. The loan provided for a December 19, 2022 maturity, a 10% original issue discount and a 6% interest rate. The Company received $25,000 of proceeds from this note.
The note was automatically convertible into shares of common stock at a discount to the IPO price or based on the valuation of the Company, whichever was more favorable to the holder.
Initially, the loan was estimated to be issued with 355,114 warrants. Subsequent to the closing of the loan agreement, the Company enhanced the terms of the Bridge Note Offering under which the loan was closed and in April 2022 closed on the sale of approximately $1 million in face value of convertible bridge notes. Pursuant to the enhanced terms, the warrants were issued concurrently with the conversion of the note.
Concurrent with the closing of the Company’s IPO, the note converted according to its terms into shares of common stock. No gain or loss was recognized on the conversion.
Convertible Bridge Notes
On April 11, 2022, the Company entered into an Exclusive placement agent and/or underwriter agreement with WallachBeth Capital LLC in connection with a proposed private and/or public offerings by the Company. On April 28, 2022, the Company received approximately $775,000 of proceeds, net of approximately $91,000 of fees and a 10% original issue discount from the sale of Convertible Bridge Notes and Warrants to several institutional investors and several individual accredited investors. In addition, the Company also received $100,000 from the sale of a Convertible Bridge Note and Warrants to a related party earlier in April. In September 2022, the Company received an additional $25,000 of proceeds, net of a 10% original issue discount from the sale of an additional Convertible Bridge Note and Warrant to an unrelated party.
The Convertible Bridge Notes were initially convertible at the IPO at a 20% discount to the IPO price. The Convertible Bridge Notes provided for an original maturity date of October 31, 2022.
In connection with the Convertible Bridge Notes, the purchasers were also entitled to conditional warrants to be issued upon completion of the Company’s IPO. The agreement provided for the warrants to be exercisable for a period of five years from issuance at an exercise price equal to 110% of the IPO price or, if the Company failed to complete the IPO before October 22, 2022, 90% of the IPO price.
In the fourth quarter of 2022, the Company amended the Convertible Bridge Notes to (a) extend the maturity date until December 31, 2022, (b) provide that the conversion right would include interest through November 30, 2022, with interest accruing beyond that date being paid in cash and (c) revise the conversion price to be $ based on a $25 million Company valuation. Additionally, the exercise price of the warrants was revised to $.
Concurrent with the closing of the Company’s IPO in February 2023, all of the Convertible Bridge Notes converted according to their terms into shares of common stock. No gain or loss was recognized on the conversion.
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| Convertible Notes – Related Party | 5. Convertible Notes – Related Party
SAFE Agreement
On July 8, 2021, the Company entered into a Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE), with a related party, at a purchase price of $150,000. The SAFE provided for no interest and terminated after conversion upon completion of the Company’s IPO. The SAFE provided for automatic conversion into the number of shares of SAFE Preferred Stock equal to the Purchase Amount divided by the Conversion Price, defined as either: (1) the SAFE Price (the price per share equal to the Post-Money Valuation Cap divided by the Company Capitalization) or (2) the Discount Price (the price per share of the Standard Preferred Stock sold in the Equity Financing multiplied by the Discount Rate), whichever calculation results in a greater number of shares of SAFE Preferred Stock.
In February 2023, the SAFE terminated and converted into shares of common stock according to its terms upon the Company’s closing of its IPO. The conversion was considered a redemption for accounting purposes and consequently, the Company recognized a $63,626 loss on the conversion.
As of December 31, 2022, the $150,000 received from the SAFE was recorded at 6% imputed interest.
August 2021 Note
On August 19, 2021, the Company entered into a convertible loan agreement with a related party, with a principal balance of $99,900, an original issuance discount of 5% and a 9% interest rate. The loan provided for a maturity date of February 19, 2022. The noteholder had the right to convert the principal and interest into common shares of the Company at a conversion price based on a discount to the IPO price.
In February 2023, the related party elected to convert the convertible loan into shares of common stock according to its terms upon the Company’s closing of its IPO. The conversion was considered a redemption for accounting purposes and consequently, the Company recognized a $29,333 loss on the conversion.
In connection with the convertible loan agreement, the Company also issued 99,000 Warrants with an exercise price of $1.00 exercisable for five years from issuance. In May 2022, the Company and the note holder agreed to cancel and void previous warrants and enter into a new agreement for 115,185 warrants with an exercise price of $2.50. The Company assessed the differences in fair value and determined that they were de minimis and expensed the full value of the new warrants.
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| Debt Disclosure [Abstract] | |
| Notes Payable | 6. Notes Payable
In January 2023 the Company entered into a short-term note payable with a principal balance of $100,000, an original discount of 20% and a 9% interest rate. The note was paid in its entirety in February 2023.
In February 2023, the Company entered into an agreement to finance a portion of the premium for its Directors and Officers Insurance. The agreement provides for financing of $697,534 of the premium, repayments in 10 equal monthly installments of $71,485 each through December 2023 and accrued interest at 6.5%. The balance outstanding at September 30, 2023 was $213,290. The related balance of the premium of $307,735 is included in prepaid expenses.
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| Related Party Transactions [Abstract] | |
| Related Party | 7. Related Party
During the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company issued stock options to its Chief Financial Officer for services rendered.
During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company issued common stock options to related parties for services rendered. The options have an original life of years and vest over different periods for up to 24 months. During the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, the Company recognized $ and $, respectively, of stock-based compensation related to these options. During the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, the Company recognized $ and $, respectively, of stock-based compensation related to these options.
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| Stockholder’s Equity | 8. Stockholder’s Equity
Preferred Stock
The Company has shares of preferred stock authorized at a par value of $ with being designated as Series A Convertible Preferred Stock. On October 5, 2022, the Company entered into an exchange agreement with an Investor providing for the exchange of shares of commons stock into shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock. Each share of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock is convertible at any time into shares of the Company’s common stock. The Series A Preferred Stock is the economic equivalent of the common stock but has no voting rights and is subject to a blocker which prohibits the conversion into common stock if it would result in the Investor owning more than 4.99% of the Company’s outstanding common stock at such time. The Company evaluated the terms of the exchange and determined there was no significant change in fair value and therefore the Series A Preferred Stock was valued at $315,000 which is the Investor’s basis in the common stock that was exchanged.
Common Stock
The Company has shares of common stock authorized at a par value of $. During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company:
After the Company signed two licenses for two drug programs from universities in the first half of 2022 it engaged an independent valuation firm to perform an Enterprise-Equity valuation. The results of this engagement resulted in an increase in the value per share of common stock used in the Black Scholes option pricing model employed to value the Company’s equity grants and warrant issuances.
In February 2023, the Company completed its IPO for the sale of units (each, a “Unit,” collectively, the “Units”) at a price of $ per Unit for a total of approximately $8.4 million of gross proceeds. Each Unit consisted of one share of the Company’s common stock, one tradeable warrant (each, a “Tradeable Warrant,” collectively, the “Tradeable Warrants”) to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $7.80 per share, and one non-tradeable warrant (each, a “Non-tradeable Warrant,” collectively, the “Non-tradeable Warrants”; together with the Tradeable Warrants, each, a “Warrant,” collectively, the “Warrants”) to purchase one share of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of $8.125.
In connection with the completion of its IPO, the Company issued an aggregate of shares of common stock upon the conversion of certain outstanding convertible debt.
In connection with the IPO, in February 2023, the Company completed a 1-for-7 reverse split of our common stock. Stockholders’ equity and all references to shares and per share amounts in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been retroactively adjusted to reflect the reverse stock split for all periods presented.
In February 2023, the Company issued shares of common stock for consulting services and recognized $50,000 of compensation expense related to these shares.
In the second quarter of 2023, we issued shares of common stock following the exercise of warrants for proceeds of $1,494,658.
Dilutive securities are excluded from the diluted earnings per share calculation because their effect is anti-dilutive. As of September 30, 2023, warrants and options for common shares were excluded in the calculation of net loss per share. As of September 30, 2022, warrants and options for common shares were excluded in the calculation of net loss per share.
2022 Equity Incentive Plan
In November 2022, the Company’s Board of Directors adopted, and its shareholders approved the 2022 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). The Plan provides for the granting of equity-based awards to employees, directors, and consultants. The Plan provides for equity-based awards including incentive stock options, non-qualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, performance share awards, cash awards and other equity-based awards. Awards are limited to a maximum term of years and any exercise prices shall not be less than 100% of the fair market value of one share of common stock on the grant date. The Plan authorizes an initial maximum number of shares underlying awards of with an automatic annual % increase beginning in 2024. As of September 30, 2023, there were awards authorized but unissued available under the Plan.
Stock Options
The weighted-average grant-date fair value of options granted during the nine months ended September 30, 2023 was $. No options were issued in the nine months ended September 30, 2022.
No options were exercised in any of the periods presented.
During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recognized $ and $, respectively of compensation expense related to stock options. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company recognized $ and $ of compensation expense, respectively related to stock options.
As of September 30, 2023, the total unrecognized compensation expense related to unvested stock options, was approximately $, which the Company expects to recognize over a weighted-average period of approximately years.
Warrants
During the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, the Company granted a total of and warrants, respectively. During the nine months ended September 30, 2023, warrants to purchase shares vested and had a fair value of $. During the year ended December 31, 2022, shares of warrants were vested and amended with a fair value of $, 51,941 shares of warrants were reclassified with a fair value of $11,097, and 42,057 shares of warrants with a fair value of $1,883 were forfeited.
During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company granted a total of warrants. Of this amount, warrants, with a fair value of $12,462, were granted to advisors related to the Company’s IPO objective. The warrants have an original life of five years and vest 30 days before the intended IPO. During the year ended December 31, 2021, shares of these warrants were vested. As of June 30, 2022, the warrants for shares were cancelled and voided per agreement of the warrant holder and the Company. There was no gain or loss due to cancellation. In 2021, 138,929 warrants, with a fair value of $28,683, were issued for services rendered.
During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company issued 92,859 warrants with a fair value of $12,980, in connection with convertible bridge debt agreements with multiple parties including a related party. The warrants had an original life of five years. During the period ending June 30, 2022, the Company determined that 50,735 warrants, with a fair value of $11,097, should not have been issued. The fair value was reclassified to Additional Paid in Capital. In May 2022, the Company and the note holders agreed to cancel and void the previous 99,000 warrants and entered into a new agreement for 115,185 warrants and the exercise price increased to $2.50 from $1, with a fair value of $15,412. In May 2022, the Company and the note holders agreed to cancel and void the previous 195,000 warrants and entered into a new agreement for 225,000 warrants with an exercise price of $2.50, with a fair value of $64,978.
The 92,859 warrants discussed above were initially discounted against the notes, subsequent to year end December 31, 2021, they were deemed voided and these individuals were issued new warrants in accordance with the new terms as stated above. We assessed the differences in fair values and determined the values were de minimis and expensed the full value of the new warrants.
During the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company issued the following warrants:
During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recognized $ and $, respectively of compensation expense related to certain warrants. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company recognized $ and $ of compensation expense related to certain warrants. As of September 30, 2023, the total unrecognized compensation expense related to unvested warrants was $6,556, which the Company expects to recognize over a weighted-average period of approximately years.
The following table provides details over the Company’s outstanding warrants as of September 30, 2023:
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| Income Taxes | 9. Income Taxes
The Company has not recorded any tax provision or benefit for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022. The Company has provided a valuation allowance for the full amount of its net deferred tax assets since realization of any future benefits from deductible temporary differences, net operating loss carryforwards and research and development credits are not more-likely-than-not to be realized at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022.
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| Material Agreements | 10. Material Agreements
JHU-APL Technology License
On February 7, 2018, the Company entered into an exclusive, world-wide, royalty-bearing license from JHU-APL for the technology. The license covers three (3) issued patents, one (1) new provisional patent application, non-patent rights to proprietary libraries of algorithms and other trade secrets, the license also includes modifications and improvements. In October of 2021, the Company executed an amendment to the original license which represents improvements and new advanced analytics capabilities. In consideration of the rights granted to the Company under the License Agreement JHU received a warrant equal to five percent (5%) of the then fully diluted equity base of the Company, which shall be diluted following the closing of the IPO. Under the terms of the License Agreement, JHU will be entitled to eight percent (8%) royalty on net sales for the services provided by the Company in which the JHU licensed technology was utilized, as well as fifty percent (50%) of all sublicense revenues received by the Company. In addition, the Company is required to pay JHU an annual maintenance fee of $1,500. Minimum annual royalty payments are $20,000 for 2022, $80,000 for 2023, and $300,000 for 2024 and beyond, if cumulative annual royalty payments do not reach these levels, the amount due to JHU to reach the annual minimum is due by January 31st of the following year. Failure to make annual royalty payments is considered a material breach under the agreement and upon notice from JHU of a material breach, the Company shall have 60 days to cure the material breach. On July 8, 2022, the company entered into an exclusive, world-wide, royalty-bearing license from JHU-APL for the additional technology developed to enhance the bfLEAP™ platform. The new license provides additional intellectual property rights including patents, copyrights, and knowhow to be utilized under the Company’s bfLEAP™ analytical AI/ML platform. This license supersedes the previous license. In consideration of the new license, the Company issued shares of common stock. Under the terms of the new License Agreement, JHU will be entitled to eight percent (8%) of net sales for the services provided by the Company to other parties and three percent (3%) for internally development drug projects in which the JHU license was utilized. The new license also contains tiered sub licensing fees that start at 50% and reduce to 25% based on revenues. In addition, under the new license agreement, the minimum annual royalty payments are $30,000 for 2022, $60,000 for 2023, and $300,000 for 2024 and beyond.
On May 31, 2023, the Company and JHU-APL entered into Amendment number 1 of the July 8, 2022 License Agreement whereby the Company gained access to certain improvements including additional patents and knowhow in exchange for a series of payments totaling $275,000. The first of these payments for $75,000 was due in July 2023 followed by payments of $75,000, $75,000 and $50,000 in years 2025, 2026 and 2027, respectively. The amendment also reduced the 2023 minimum annual royalty payment to $60,000, all other financial terms remain the same. As of September 30, 2023, we have accrued $45,000 of the 2023 minimum annual royalty payments.
George Washington University - Beta2-spectrin siRNA License
On January 14, 2022, the Company entered into an exclusive, world-wide, royalty-bearing license from George Washington University (GWU) for rights to use siRNA targeting Beta2-spectrin in the treatment of human diseases, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The license covers methods claimed in three US and worldwide patent applications, and also includes use of this approach for treatment of obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.
In consideration of the rights granted to the Company under the License Agreement the Company paid GWU a $20,000 License Initiation Fee. Under the terms of the License Agreement, GWU will be entitled to a three percent (3%) royalty on net sales subject to quarterly minimums once the first sale has occurred subsequent to regulatory approval, as well sublicense or assignment fees in the event the Company sublicenses or assigns their rights to use the technology. The Company will also reimburse GWU for previously incurred and ongoing patent costs. The Sublicense and Assignment fee amounts decline as the Company advances the clinical development of the licensed technology. The license agreement also contains milestone payments for clinical development through the approval of an NDA and commercialization. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, there has been no accrual for royalties since we have not begun to generate applicable revenue. The Company assessed whether the license should be capitalized and determined that the licensed program is in the early stage and therefore may not be recoverable; the Company expensed the license fee and will expense development costs until commercial viability is likely.
Johns Hopkins University – Mebendazole License
On February 22, 2022, the Company entered into an exclusive, world-wide, royalty-bearing license from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) for the use of an improved formulation of Mebendazole for the treatment of any human cancer or neoplastic disease. This formulation shows potent activity in animal models of different types of cancer and has been evaluated in a Phase I clinical trial in patients with high-grade glioma (NCT01729260). The trial, an open-label dose-escalation study, assessed the safety and efficacy of the improved formulation with adjuvant temozolomide in 24 patients with newly diagnosed gliomas. Investigators observed no dose-limiting toxicity in patients receiving all but the highest tested dose (200mg/kg/day). Four of the 15 patients receiving the maximum tested dose of 200mg/kg/day experienced dose-limiting toxicity, all of which were reversed by decreasing or eliminating the dose given. There were no serious adverse events attributed to Mebendazole at any dose during the trial. 41.7% of patients who received Mebendazole were alive at two years after enrollment, and 25% were alive at four years (Gallia et al., 2021).
The license covers six (6) issued patents and one (1) pending application. In consideration of the rights granted to the Company under the License Agreement, JHU will receive a staggered Upfront License Fee of $250,000. The initial payment for $50,000 was paid and the remaining balance of $200,000 was paid after the Company completed its IPO. The Company will also reimburse JHU for previously incurred and ongoing patent costs. Under the terms of the License Agreement, JHU will be entitled to three and one-half percent (3.5%) royalty on net sales by the Company. In addition, the Company is required to pay JHU minimum annual royalty payments of $5,000 for 2023, $10,000 for 2024, $20,000 for 2025, $30,000 for 2026 and $50,000 for 2027 and each year after until the first commercial sale after which the annual minimum royalty shall be $250,000. The license agreement also contains milestone payments for clinical development steps through the approval of an NDA and commercialization. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the balance of accrued expense related to this license agreement was $7,500 and $242,671, respectively. The Company assessed whether the license should be capitalized and determined that the licensed program is in the early stage and therefore may not be recoverable; the Company expensed the license fee and will expense development costs until commercial viability is likely.
Johns Hopkins University – Prodrug License
On October 13, 2022, the Company entered into an exclusive, world-wide, royalty-bearing license from JHU and the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (IOCB) of the Czech Academy of Sciences for rights to commercialize N-substituted prodrugs of Mebendazole that demonstrate improved solubility and bioavailability. The license covers prodrug compositions and use for treating disease as claimed in multiple US and worldwide patent applications. In consideration for the rights granted to the Company under the License Agreement JHU and IOCB will receive a staggered upfront license fee of $100,000. The Company will also reimburse JHU and IOCB for previously incurred patent costs. Under the terms of the License Agreement, JHU and IOCB will be entitled to four percent (4.0%) royalty on net sales by the Company. In addition, the Company is required to pay JHU and IOCB minimum annual royalty payments of $5,000 for 2027, $10,000 for 2028, $20,000 for 2029, $30,000 for 2030 and $50,000 for 2031 and each year after until the first commercial sale after which the annual minimum royalty shall be $150,000. The license agreement also contains milestone payments for patent grants, clinical development steps through the approval of an NDA and commercialization. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the balance of accrued expense related to this license agreement was $0 and $133,238, respectively. The Company assessed whether the license should be capitalized and determined that the licensed program is in the early stage and therefore may not be recoverable; the Company expensed the license fee and will expense development costs until commercial viability is likely. |
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies) |
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| Basis of Presentation | Basis of Presentation
The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc. and our wholly owned subsidiaries and have been prepared in conformity with United States generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) for interim financial information. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
The condensed consolidated statements are unaudited and should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes included in our 2022 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 25, 2023. The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a basis consistent with the audited annual consolidated financial statements included in the 10-K and, in the opinion of management, include all adjustments of a normal recurring nature necessary to fairly state our financial position, our results of operations, and cash flows.
The results for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 are not necessarily indicative of the operating results expected for the year ending December 31, 2023 or any other future period.
On February 13, 2023, we completed a 1-for-7 reverse split of our common stock. Stockholders’ equity and all references to shares and per share amounts in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been adjusted to reflect the reverse stock split for all periods presented.
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| Revenue Recognition | Revenue Recognition
The Company recognizes revenue based on the following five step model:
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| Contract Services | Contract Services
The Company anticipates that the majority of revenues to be recognized in the near future will result from our fee for service partnership offering, designed for biopharmaceutical companies, as well as other organizations, of all sizes that have challenges analyzing data throughout the drug development process. The Company provides the customer with an analysis of large complex data sets using the Company’s proprietary Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning platform called bfLEAP™. This platform is designed to predict targets of interest, patterns, relationships, and anomalies. The Company believes that there will be additional on-going work requested from partners therefore the service model utilizes a master services agreement with work or task orders issued for discrete analysis performed at the discovery, preclinical, or clinical stages of drug development. The Company receives a cash fee and in some instances the potential for rights to new intellectual property generated from the analysis. Once data analysis and the analysis report is complete, the Company delivers the analysis set to the customer and recognizes revenue at that point in time.
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| Significant Accounting Policies | Significant Accounting Policies
There have been no new or material changes to the significant accounting policies discussed in the Company’s audited financial statements and the notes thereto included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022.
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| Impact of Recently Issued Accounting Standards | Impact of Recently Issued Accounting Standards
The Company has evaluated issued Accounting Standards Updates (“ASUs”) not yet adopted and believes the adoption of these standards will not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements. |
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| Schedule of Outstanding Warrants | The following table provides details over the Company’s outstanding warrants as of September 30, 2023:
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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Details Narrative) |
Feb. 13, 2023 |
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| IPO [Member] | |
| Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items] | |
| Reverse stock split | completed a 1-for-7 reverse split of our common stock. |
Notes Payable Related Party (Details Narrative) - USD ($) |
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| Short term loan | $ 49,000 | $ 213,290 | |
| Accruing interest rate | 5.00% | ||
| Interest rate | 1.00% |
Notes Payable (Details Narrative) - USD ($) |
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| Debt Securities, Held-to-Maturity, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items] | ||||
| Repayments in installments | $ 319,950 | |||
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| Debt Securities, Held-to-Maturity, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items] | ||||
| Notes payable | $ 697,534 | $ 100,000 | ||
| Original issuance discount rate | 20.00% | |||
| Accrued interest | 6.50% | 9.00% | ||
| Repayments in installments | $ 71,485 | |||
| Outstanding balance | 213,290 | |||
| Prepaid expenses | $ 307,735 | |||
Related Party (Details Narrative) - USD ($) |
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| Deferred Compensation Arrangement with Individual, Excluding Share-Based Payments and Postretirement Benefits [Line Items] | |||||||
| Number of shares issued for services | 7,692 | 436,533 | |||||
| Original life | 8 years 7 months 20 days | ||||||
| Stock-based compensation | $ 511,177 | $ 290,876 | |||||
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| Deferred Compensation Arrangement with Individual, Excluding Share-Based Payments and Postretirement Benefits [Line Items] | |||||||
| Number of shares issued for services | 29,286 | ||||||
| Original life | 10 years | ||||||
| Stock-based compensation | $ 430 | $ 450 | $ 1,290 | $ 1,350 | |||
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| Deferred Compensation Arrangement with Individual, Excluding Share-Based Payments and Postretirement Benefits [Line Items] | |||||||
| Number of shares issued for services | 75,000 | ||||||
Schedule of Black Scholes Option Pricing Model (Details) |
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| Expected dividend yield | 0.00% |
| Expected volatility, minimum | 87.00% |
| Expected volatility, maximum | 92.00% |
| Risk-free interest rate, minimum | 3.40% |
| Risk-free interest rate, maximum | 4.10% |
| Minimum [Member] | |
| Expected life (in years) | 5 years |
| Maximum [Member] | |
| Expected life (in years) | 6 years |