authID - 10-K annual report 2025

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM10-K

(Mark One)

☒ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025

☐TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from             to             

Commission file number 001-40747

authID Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

1580 North Logan Street, Suite 660, Unit 51767

Denver,CO 80203

(Address of principal executive offices)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 516-274-8700

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act:

Common Stock, $.0001 par value per share

(Title of class)

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As of June 30, 2025, the last business day of the Registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, the market value of our common stock held by non-affiliates was $63,478,476 which is based on the average bid and ask price of such common equity, as of the last practical business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter of $5.34.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

GENERAL INFORMATION

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Certain statements discussed in Item 1 (Business), Item 1A (Risk Factors), Item 3 (Legal Proceedings), Item 7 (Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations), Item 7A (Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk) and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K as well as in other materials and oral statements that the Company releases from time to time to the public constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements concerning management’s expectations, strategic objectives, business prospects, anticipated economic performance and financial condition and other similar matters involve significant known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of results to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements discussed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties and other important factors are discussed in Item 1A (Risk Factors) and Item 7 Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. In addition, these statements constitute the Company’s cautionary statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. It should be understood that it is not possible to predict or identify all such factors. Consequently, the following should not be considered to be a complete discussion of all potential risks or uncertainties. The words “anticipate,” “estimate,” “expect,” “project,” “intend,” “believe,” “plan,” “target,” “forecast” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of the document in which they are made. The Company disclaims any obligation or undertaking to provide any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement to reflect any change in the Company’s expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which the forward-looking statement is based. It is advisable, however, to consult any further disclosures the Company makes on related subjects in its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

PART I

Item 1. Business

Overview

authID Inc. (the “Company”) ensures enterprises “Know Who’s Behind the Device”^TM for every customer or employee login and transaction, through its easy-to-integrate, patented, biometric identity platform. authID powers biometric identity proofing, biometric authentication, and account recovery with a fast, accurate, user-friendly experience. With our PrivacyKey™ solution, authID provides highly accurate biometric authentication while storing no biometric data. authID’s goal is to stop fraud at onboarding, blocks deepfakes, prevents account takeover, and eliminates password risks and costs, through the faster, frictionless, and most accurate user identity experience demanded by today’s digital ecosystem.

Our Platform

Our cloud-based platform was developed with internally developed software as well as acquired and licensed technology and provides the following core services:

Biometric Identity Verification - Proof

Biometric identity verification establishes the trusted identity of a user based on a variety of ground truth sources, including government-issued identity documents such as national IDs, driver’s licenses and passports or electronic machine-readable travel documents (or eMRTDs). Our Verified^TM platform detects presentation attack and spoofing threats, evaluates the authenticity of security features present on a government-issued identity document, and biometrically matches the reference picture of the document with a live user’s selfie (a photograph that the user has taken of themselves). Usually occurring at account opening or onboarding, identity verification ensures that the enterprise knows that the person interacting with the enterprise is who they say they are, in real time. authID’s Proof^TM identity verification product eliminates the need for costly and less accurate face-to-face, in-person ID checks and instead provides a verified identity in seconds. Additionally, authID’s PrivacyKey^TM technology enables customers to perform biometric verification through the use of Public/Private Keys that is performed without storing any biometric data, which ensures individual data privacy. In a digital, online world of increasing fraud and security threats, Proof speeds up onboarding and offers our customers confidence in the identities of consumers, employees or third-party vendors.

Biometric Identity Authentication - Verified

Biometric identity authentication provides any organization with a secure, convenient solution to validate that an individual is the verified account owner for various purposes including passwordless login and performing specific transactions, or functions. The authID Verified product allows users to confirm their identity with their facial biometric by simply taking a selfie on a mobile phone or device of their choosing (as opposed to dedicated hardware). The solution includes a patented audit trail created for each transaction, containing the digitally signed transaction details, with proof of identity authentication and consent. Verified allows users to recover, via a facial biometric, account access that is lost or blocked due to expired credentials, lockouts, lost or stolen devices, or compromised accounts. Because the account owner’s root of trust is established in the cloud, recovery is independent of any device or hardware. In this way, account recovery is instant, portable, and does not require the presence of or access to a previously provisioned device in order to secure access from a different device.

PrivacyKey Privacy Preserving Biometrics

authID’s PrivacyKey solution provides biometric authentication without the requirement to store any biometric or derivative of biometric data. The technology transforms biometric verification into Public/Private Key cryptography whereby the facial image of the person is converted into an elliptical public/private key pair where only the public key is stored and the private key only exists during authentication and is deleted immediately after. The solution is compliant to the ISO30136 Privacy Biometric standard and provides a False Match Rate accuracy of 1:1 Billion at a False Rejection Rate of 0.3%, as confirmed by independent tests conducted by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (“CSRIO”).

Identity Exchange (IDX^TM) Platform

authID’s Identity Exchange (IDX) is a next-generation platform purpose-built to allow authorized personnel to create or claim a central credential that can be leveraged across multiple subsidiaries of a large enterprise, simplifying and securing the management of workforce identities across distributed workforces that include employees, contractors, vendors, and other third parties. IDX modernizes identity management with centrally-managed, biometric-bound, passwordless, interoperable and reusable credentials that stop phishing attacks, ensuring only verified users can access sensitive systems and data. IDX is the first enterprise platform built on the Accountable Digital Identity Association (ADI Association) specification, ensuring it is aligned with global interoperability and data sovereignty standards as well as privacy regulations.

authID Mandate - Agentic AI Security Framework

authID Mandate is a framework for biometrically binding human sponsors to the AI agents they launched, ensuring that agentic activity is governed by the user’s own scope, while also providing an immutable audit trail of that sponsorship. This provides a level of governance far beyond machine IDs, or vulnerable tokens that are otherwise the basis for most agentic deployment of auditability.

Key Customer Benefits

Our solutions allow our enterprise customers to:

Corporate Information

The Company was incorporated in the State of Delaware on September 21, 2011. Our corporate headquarters is a virtual address located at 1580 North Logan Street, Suite 660, Unit 51767, Denver, CO 80203 and our main phone number is (516) 274-8700. Our website address is www.authid.ai. The information contained on, or that can be accessed through, our website is not incorporated by reference into this Form 10-K and you should not consider information on our website to be part of this Form 10-K.

Global Market Opportunity

The momentum towards a digital economy in recent years, accompanied by a massive growth in cyberattacks, fraud, and account takeovers fueled by Artificial Intelligence are driving the demand for more streamlined and more secure identity verification and authentication. The World Economic Forum estimates digitally enabled platform business models will drive 70% of new economic value created over the next ten years. Yet vast amounts of data have been compromised, and ransomware attacks have cost businesses hundreds of millions in remediation costs, lost revenue and brand equity. Passwords and device authentication alone no longer provide the security needed to fight today’s rampant cyber-attacks and account takeover schemes.

According to Statista, cybercrime costs in the United States alone are projected to increase to approximately $900 billion in 2026 and are projected to grow to over $3.4 trillion in 2030 (Statista: Annual Cost of Cybercrime in the U.S. 2017-2030). In the 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report, 78% of 3,300 financial data breaches studied involved external actors, while 74% of all breaches were attributed to some form of social engineering, stolen credentials, or human error. Verizon also found that Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks now represent more than 50% of social engineering incidents, having almost doubled in recent years. Further it is predicted that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will almost certainly increase the volume and heighten the impact of cyberattacks.

Financial services, ecommerce, the sharing economy, and healthcare businesses, among other industry verticals, are confronted by the challenges of identifying their customers, patients and beneficiaries with ease and certainty in the digital world. Organizations across all sectors need to control access to their data and applications by their employees. Governments around the world are enacting new data privacy regulations and pushing for stronger authentication methods in commerce, which impose a “call to action” for many of these entities.

These factors have created a hyper-growth market for the identity verification and authentication industry as well as increased buyer demand for integrated identity platforms that can provide a range of identity solutions to address the full authentication lifecycle to govern the user journey. The Global Biometric Technology Market is estimated to reach a market size of over $50 billion by 2025, increasing at a 20% CAGR to reach over $150 billion by 2030 (Grand View Research, Biometric Technology Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report, 2023 - 2030).

Growth Strategy

We orient our business strategy and invest for future growth by focusing on the following key priorities:

Sales and Marketing

authID provides its software as a service (SaaS) platform based on a subscription and usage-based model, with fees per transaction, enrolled or active users.

We sell our platform primarily through our direct sales team, which consists of inside sales and field sales professionals based in the United States. To power our efforts, we have built a team of subject matter experts in the identity space, and applied a regimented sales execution strategy, allowing us to win against competitors with comparable products but a sub-optimal approach to the market. We also use a lead generation service and digital marketing in order to carefully target potential customers and provide qualified leads for our sales representatives to develop.

We also work with partners such as cybersecurity and financial technology providers who provide our services to their customers through OEM or reseller arrangements and allow us to broaden our customer reach.

Competition

The market for our service offerings is highly competitive and rapidly evolving. We face competition from a broad range of providers with solutions across the identity management lifecycle, including:

It is also possible that, as the digital identity market continues to grow and evolve, larger companies with significant resources may increase their presence in the market and develop competing solutions through internal efforts or partnerships with existing players.

Due to our ability to serve both identity verification and authentication needs, as well as the tendency for enterprises to acquire multiple digital identity solutions, we can and often do co-exist with competing products within our customer base.

Research and Development

Our research and development team is responsible for the design, development, testing and quality of our platform as well as any new technologies, features, integrations and improvements. The team includes specialists in software engineering, user experience, quality assurance, product management, infrastructure, and technical writing. Our employees are located primarily in the United States, with additional employees and sub-contractors based in Europe, India and Latin America. We intend to continue to invest in our technology to strengthen and expand our platform to stay ahead of our competition and meet the evolving needs of our current and prospective customers.

Intellectual Property

We rely on a combination of patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and contractual provisions to protect our proprietary technology. For example, we enter into confidentiality and invention assignment agreements with our employees, consultants and other third parties, and control access to software, services, documentation and other proprietary information. We believe the duration of our patents is adequate relative to the expected lives of our service offerings. We also purchase or license technology that we incorporate into our products or services. While it may be necessary in the future to seek or renew licenses relating to various aspects of our products, we believe, based upon past experience and industry practice, such licenses generally could be obtained on commercially reasonable terms.

Governmental Regulations

Due to the security applications and biometric technology associated with the Company’s products and platforms, the activities and operations of the Company are subject to license restrictions and other regulations, such as (without limitation) export controls and other security regulation by government agencies. Expansion of the Company’s activities in areas such as financial services may require government licensing in different jurisdictions and may subject it to additional regulation and oversight.

Data protection legislation in various US States and foreign countries in which the Company does business require it to comply with additional disclosure and consent requirements with regard to the collection, storage and use of personal information of individuals in those States and countries, as well as register its databases with governmental authorities in those countries. Several US states have adopted or are considering adopting a Biometric Information Privacy Act, or BIPA modelled on the Illinois statute, which governs the collection, processing, storage and distribution of biometric information such as facial biometric templates and fingerprints. Several of these new statutes give individuals rights of action to sue violators, which have resulted in several class action lawsuits. These regulations could have a significant impact on our business.

Human Capital

As of December 31, 2025, the Company had a total of 46 employees who are located in the United States, Latvia and Colombia as well as outsourced service providers. There are 30 employees in the United States who provide overall Company strategic, business and technological leadership, as well as engineering and customer support. Employees in the U.S. and Latvia receive health benefits on a cost-sharing basis and employees in Colombia are provided the respective Government required benefits.

Subsidiaries

Currently, the Company has four U.S. subsidiaries: Innovation in Motion Inc., Fin Holdings, Inc., ID Solutions Inc. and authID Gaming Inc. The Company had one subsidiary in Colombia: MultiPay S.A.S. which was dissolved as of August 2, 2024. The Company has one subsidiary in the United Kingdom: authID Enterprises Limited (formerly Ipsidy Enterprises Limited). The Company is the sole shareholder of all its subsidiaries.

Available Information

Our Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and any amendment to these reports are filed with the SEC. Such reports and other information filed by us with the SEC are available free of charge on our website at investors.authid.ai as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the SEC. The SEC maintains an internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC at www.sec.gov. The information contained on the websites referenced in this Form 10-K is not incorporated by reference into this filing.

Recent Developments

None.

Item 1A. Risk Factors

Summary of Risk Factors The following summarizes the principal factors that make an investment in our company speculative or risky, all of which are more fully described in the Risk Factors section below. This summary should be read in conjunction with the Risk Factors section and should not be relied upon as an exhaustive summary of the material risks facing our business. The following factors could result in harm to our business, reputation, revenue, financial results, and prospects, among other impacts:

We have a history of losses and we may not be able to achieve profitability going forward.

We have an accumulated deficit of approximately $191.7 million as of December 31, 2025 and incurred an operating loss of approximately $17.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2025. We have had net losses in most of our quarters since our inception. We expect that we will continue to incur net losses in 2026. We may incur losses in the future for a number of reasons, including the other risks described in this report, and we may encounter unforeseen expenses, difficulties, complications, delays and other unknown events. Accordingly, we may not be able to achieve or maintain profitability. Our management is developing plans and executing certain programs to alleviate the negative trends and conditions described above, however there is no guarantee that such plans will be successfully implemented. Our ability to curtail our operating losses or generate a profit may be further impacted by the fact that our business plan is largely unproven. There is no assurance that even if we successfully implement our business plan, that we will be able to curtail our losses. If we incur significant additional operating losses, our stock price may decline, perhaps significantly and the Company will need to raise substantial additional capital in order to be able to continue to operate, which will dilute the existing stockholders and such dilution may be significant. Additional capital may not be available on terms acceptable to the Company, or at all. As there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to achieve positive cash flows (become cash flow positive) and raise sufficient capital to maintain operations, there is substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.

We have yet to achieve positive cash flow and, given our projected funding needs, our ability to generate positive cash flow is uncertain.

We have had negative cash flow from operating activities of approximately $15.0 million and approximately $11.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. We anticipate that we will continue to have negative cash flows from operating activities through at least the next 12 months as we expect to incur increased research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administrative expenses. Our business will require significant amounts of working capital to support our growth, particularly as we seek to introduce our new offered products. An inability to generate positive cash flow from operations may adversely affect our ability to raise needed capital for our business on reasonable terms, if at all. It may also diminish supplier or customer willingness to enter into transactions with us, and have other adverse effects that may impact our long-term viability. There can be no assurance we will achieve positive cash flows in the foreseeable future.

We need access to additional financing, which may not be available to us on acceptable terms, or at all. If we cannot access additional financing when we need it and on acceptable terms, our business, prospects, financial condition, operating results and ability to continue as a going concern will be adversely affected. As a result of these factors, there is substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.

Our growth-oriented business plan to offer products to our customers will require continued capital investment. Our research and development activities will also require continued investment. We raised approximately $11.4 million and $10.0 million net proceeds after expenses in 2025 and 2024, respectively, through equity and debt financing at varying terms.

Our limited operating history makes it difficult for us to evaluate our future business prospects and make decisions based on those estimates of our future performance.

We have a limited operating history and have generated limited revenue. As we look to further expand our existing products it is difficult, if not impossible, to forecast our future results based upon our historical data. Because of the uncertainties related to our lack of historical operations, we may be hindered in our ability to anticipate and timely adapt to increases or decreases in revenues or expenses. If we make poor budgetary decisions as a result of unreliable historical data, we could be less profitable or incur additional losses, which may result in a decline in our stock price.

There can be no assurance that we will successfully commercialize our products that are currently in development or were recently launched, or that our existing products will sustain market acceptance.

There is no assurance that we will ever successfully commercialize our platform and related solutions or that we will experience market reception for our products in development or increased market reception for our existing products. There is no guarantee that we will be able to successfully implement our new products utilizing the internally developed and licensed technology and products. There is no assurance that our existing or new products or solutions will achieve and sustain market acceptance. Further, there can be no guarantee that we will not lose business to our existing or potential new competitors.

If our technology and solutions are not adopted and used by customer organizations, we will not be able to grow our business and our operations will be negatively affected.

Our ability to grow depends on whether organizations of various types and sizes adopt our technology and solutions as part of their business processes. If these organizations do not adopt our technology, we may not be able to increase revenues, penetrate some of the new markets we are targeting, or we may lose some of our existing customer base.

In order for us to achieve our growth objectives, our identity verification and authentication technologies and solutions must be adapted to and adopted in a variety of areas including, among others, computer and online systems access control, and identity verification for onboarding new workforce members or consumers and for transaction authentication purposes.

We cannot accurately predict the future growth rate, if any, or the ultimate size of these markets, or our penetration of these markets. The growth of the market for our products and services depends on a number of factors such as the cost, performance and reliability of our products and services compared to the products and services of our competitors, customer perception of the benefits of our products and solutions, public perception of the intrusiveness of these solutions and the manner in which organizations use the information collected, customer satisfaction with our products and services and marketing efforts and publicity for our products and services. Our products and services may not adequately address market requirements and may not gain wide market acceptance. If our solutions or our products and services do not gain wide market acceptance, our business and our financial results will suffer.

We depend upon key personnel and need additional personnel.

On March 23, 2023, Rhoniel A. Daguro was appointed as our Chief Executive Officer. Our success depends on the continued services of Mr. Daguro and of certain other members of the current management team. Our executive team is incentivized in part by stock compensation grants that align the interests of investors with the executive team and certain executives have employment retention agreements. The loss of key management, engineering employees or third-party contractors could have a material and adverse effect on our business operations. Additionally, the success of our operations will largely depend upon our ability to successfully attract and maintain competent and qualified key management personnel. As with any company with limited resources, there can be no guarantee that we will be able to attract such individuals or that the presence of such individuals will necessarily translate into profitability for our company. If we are successful in attracting and retaining such individuals, it is likely that our payroll costs and related expenses will increase significantly and that there will be additional dilution to existing stockholders as a result of equity incentives that may need to be issued to such management personnel. Our inability to attract and retain key personnel may materially and adversely affect our business operations. Any failure by our management to effectively anticipate, implement, and manage personnel required to sustain our growth would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

Government regulation, specifically that relating to data privacy protection could negatively impact the business.

We do not have or require any approval from government authorities or agencies in order to operate our regular business and operations. However, data protection legislation in various countries in which the Company or its customers do business may require it to register its databases with governmental authorities in those countries and to comply with additional disclosure and consent requirements with regard to the collection, storage and use of personal information of individuals in those countries. To the extent that our contracts are with Governmental or regulated entities, the relevant government authorities will need to approve us as a supplier and the terms of those contracts. However, it is possible that any proposed expansion to our business and operations in the future would require government approvals. Due to the security applications and biometric technology associated with our products and platforms the activities and operations of our company are or could become subject to license restrictions and other regulations, such as (without limitation) export controls and other security regulation by government agencies. As indicated in, “We are exposed to risks in operating in foreign markets”below, the imposition of sanctions on particular countries, entities or individuals would prevent us from doing business with such countries, entities or individuals. If our existing and proposed products become subject to licensing, export control and other regulations, we may incur increased costs necessary to comply with existing and newly adopted or amended laws and regulations or penalties for any failure to comply. Our operations could be adversely affected, directly or indirectly, by existing or future laws and regulations (and amendments thereto) relating to our business or industry.

Some states in the United States have adopted legislation governing the collection, use of, and storage of biometric information and other states are considering such legislation. Specifically, several states are considering adopting a Biometric Information Privacy Act, or BIPA modelled on the Illinois statute, which governs the collection, processing, storage and distribution of biometric information such as facial biometric templates and fingerprints. Several of these new statutes give individuals rights of action to sue violators, which have resulted in a number of class action lawsuits. The widespread adoption of such legislation could result in restrictions on our current or proposed business activities, or we may incur increased costs to comply with such regulations.

We are required to comply with stringent, complex, and evolving laws, rules, regulations, and standards in many jurisdictions, as well as contractual obligations, relating to cybersecurity and data privacy. Our compliance efforts are complicated by the fact that these requirements and obligations may be subject to uncertain or inconsistent interpretations and enforcement, and may conflict among various jurisdictions. Any failure or perceived failure by us to comply with applicable laws, rules, regulations, standards, certifications, or contractual obligations, or any compromise of security that results in unauthorized access to, or unauthorized loss, destruction, use, modification, acquisition, disclosure, release, or transfer of personal information, may result in outcomes such as: requirements to modify or cease certain operations or practices; the expenditure of substantial costs, time, and other resources; proceedings or actions against us; legal liability; governmental investigations; enforcement actions; claims; fines; judgments; awards; penalties; sanctions; and potentially costly litigation (including class actions).

The market for our products is characterized by changing technology, requirements, standards and products, is impacted by the growing use of AI technologies and we may be adversely affected if we do not respond promptly and effectively to these changes.

The market for our identity verification and authentication products is characterized by evolving technologies, changing industry standards, changing political and regulatory environments, frequent new product introductions and rapid changes in customer requirements. The introduction of products embodying new technologies and the emergence of new industry standards and practices can render existing products obsolete and unmarketable. In addition, cyberattack attempts are increasing in number, magnitude, and technical sophistication, and we expect emerging technologies to contribute to the increasing sophistication of attacks and to lead to new threats. For example, threat actors are leveraging emerging artificial intelligence (or, AI) technologies to develop new hacking tools and attack vectors, generate deep fake images, exploit vulnerabilities, obscure their activities, and increase the difficulty of threat attribution. The use of AI by bad actors can increase both the sophistication and ease of production and therefore proliferation of these new threats. Our future success will depend on our ability to enhance our existing products and to develop, or acquire and introduce, on a timely and cost-effective basis, new products and product features that counter these AI threats, keep pace with technological developments and emerging industry standards and address the increasingly sophisticated needs of our customers. In the future:

If we are unable to respond promptly and effectively to new cybersecurity threats and attacks, changing technologies and market requirements, we will be unable to compete effectively in the future.

There can be no assurance that we will successfully identify new product opportunities and develop and bring new products to market in a timely manner, or that the products and technologies developed by others will not render our products or technologies obsolete or noncompetitive. The failure of our new product development efforts could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and future growth.

Issues relating to the development and use of AI, including generative AI, in our offerings may result in reputational harm, liability and adverse financial results.

Social, ethical and operational issues relating to the use of AI, including generative AI, in our offerings may result in reputational harm, liability and additional costs. We are incorporating AI technologies, developed by third parties, into our offerings. If our AI development, deployment, data privacy and product disclosures, or governance is ineffective or inadequate, it may result in incidents that impair the public acceptance of our AI solutions, or cause harm to individuals, customers or society, or result in our offerings not working as intended or producing unexpected outcomes.

Jurisdictions around the world are developing and passing new regulations that apply specifically to the use of AI. For example, the EU AI Act was adopted in 2024 and will be implemented in phases through 2030, and other jurisdictions are considering similarly focused legislation. These regulations and the evolving AI regulatory environment may, among other impacts, result in inconsistencies among AI regulations and frameworks across jurisdictions, increase our compliance, governance and research and development costs, increase our exposure to claims related to our AI models and increase liability related to the use of AI by our customers or users that are beyond our control. There can be no guarantee that future AI regulations, or customer requirements relating to AI will not adversely impact us or conflict with our approach to AI, including affecting our ability to make our offerings available without costly changes, delaying or halting development of our offerings, requiring us to change our development practices, go to market strategies and indemnity protections and subjecting us to additional compliance requirements, regulatory action, competitive harm, reputational harm and legal liability. To the extent we rely on third-party AI technologies in our products, services and solutions, we will face risks inherent in how those technologies and their AI models have been developed and deployed.

Uncertainty around new and evolving AI uses may require significant, additional investment. We may in the future experience, challenges accessing AI models, datasets or hardware. Developing, testing and deploying AI systems and countermeasures to AI threats outlined above, may also increase the cost of our offerings, including due to the nature of the computing costs.

We have in the past entered into and may seek in the future to enter into contracts with governments, as well as state and local governmental agencies and municipalities, which subjects us to certain risks associated with such types of contracts.

Most contracts with governments or with state or local agencies or municipalities, or Governmental Contracts, are awarded through a competitive bidding process, and some of the business that we expect to seek in the future will likely be subject to a competitive bidding process(See “We may have to seek business through a competitive bidding process” below).

We may not be afforded the opportunity in the future to bid on contracts that are held by other companies and are scheduled to expire, if the governments, or the applicable state or local agency or municipality determines to extend the existing contract. If we are unable to win new contract awards or retain those contracts, if any, that we are awarded over any extended period, our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations will be adversely affected.

In addition, Governmental Contracts subject us to risks associated with public budgetary restrictions and uncertainties, actual contracts that are less than awarded contract amounts, the requirement for posting a performance bond and the related cost and cancellation at any time at the option of the governmental agency. Any failure to comply with the terms of any Governmental Contracts could result in substantial civil and criminal fines and penalties, as well as suspension from future contracts for a significant period of time, any of which could adversely affect our business by requiring us to pay significant fines and penalties or prevent us from earning revenues from Governmental Contracts during the suspension period.

Additionally, we are subject to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or the FCPA, and other laws in the United States and elsewhere that prohibit improper payments or offers of payments to United States’, or foreign governments and their officials and political parties for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business. Our activities in the United States and elsewhere create the risk of unauthorized payments or offers of payments by one of our employees, contractors or customers that could be in violation of various laws, including the FCPA, even though these parties are not always subject to our control. We have implemented safeguards to discourage these practices by our employees, consultants and customers. However, our existing safeguards and any future improvements may prove to be less than effective, and our employees, contractors or customers may engage in conduct for which we might be held responsible. Violations of the FCPA or similar laws may result in severe criminal or civil sanctions and we may be subject to other liabilities, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Governments may be in a position to obtain greater rights with respect to our intellectual property than we would grant to other entities. Governmental agencies also have the power, based on financial difficulties or investigations of their contractors, to deem contractors unsuitable for new contract awards. Because we will engage in the government contracting business, we will be subject to additional regulatory and legal compliance requirements, as well as audits, and may be subject to investigation, by governmental entities. Compliance with such additional regulatory requirements is likely to result in additional operational costs in performing such Governmental Contracts which may impact on our profitability. Failure to comply with the terms of any Governmental Contract could result in substantial civil and criminal fines and penalties, as well as suspension from future contracts for a significant period of time, any of which could adversely affect our business by requiring us to pay fines and penalties and prohibiting us from earning revenues from Governmental Contracts during the suspension period. 

Furthermore, governmental programs can experience delays or cancellation of funding and suspension of appropriations has occurred, for example the partial United States government shutdown in October - November 2025 and current congressional uncertainty over the debt ceiling which could lead to a further shutdown, which can be unpredictable; this may make it difficult to forecast our revenues on a quarter-by-quarter basis.

We may have to seek business through a competitive bidding process.

Competitive bidding, whether for contracts with governments or with private enterprises, presents a number of risks, including:

If we are unable to win particular contracts that are awarded through the competitive bidding process, we will incur expenses associated with such competitive bidding and may not be able to operate in the market for the products and services that are provided under those contracts for a number of years.

We rely in part on third-party software to develop and provide our solutions.

We rely in part on software licensed from third parties to develop and offer some of our solutions. Any loss of the right to use any such software or other intellectual property required for the development and maintenance of our solutions, or any defects or other issues with such software could result in problems or delays in the provision of our solutions until equivalent technology is either developed by us, or, if available from others, is identified, obtained, and integrated, which could harm our business.

We depend upon a small number of large sales with contractual commitments ranging from $500,000 to $2,000,000, which take longer to close and may result in a concentration of business and unpredictable quarterly revenue.

We derive a substantial portion of our revenues from a small number of sales with large contractual commitments ranging from $500,000 to $2,000,000. We have changed the product set of the business and have developed a new range of SaaS based products and solutions, which are in a lower price range and intended to generate recurring revenue from a large number of customers. We have at the same time changed our marketing focus to target major enterprises, which involve a longer sales cycle but if we are successful in securing contracts with multi-million dollar contractual commitments with such enterprises, we believe that such contracts will generate substantial, sustainable revenue growth. At the same time, we are also focusing our efforts in expanding our channel partner relationships, in the expectation that these will bring additional sales that will be quicker and easier to close. We are still endeavoring to enter into multi-year contracts for our new products with minimum commitments ranging in price and we may, or may not, be successful in achieving such sales. If we are successful in securing the major contractual commitments that we are targeting, that may result in concentration of our business amongst a small number of customers, the loss of any one of which could have significant adverse effects on our revenue and financial situation. Additionally, the longer sales and implementation cycle of major enterprises may delay the recognition of revenue and adversely affect our results of operations in the meantime. Some of our large contractual commitments are from enterprises, which are at an early stage of business development and the ramp in their business and processing volumes may be unpredictable. Accordingly, our quarterly results are difficult to predict because we cannot predict in which quarter, if any, substantial sales (whether measured in commitment volumes, or number of contracts) will occur in a given year, nor when (if at all), or at what rate the ramp in sales of new products will occur. As a result, we believe that quarter-to-quarter comparisons of our sales are not a good indication of our future performance. In some future quarters, our sales may be below the expectations of securities analysts and investors, in which case the market price of our Common Stock may decrease significantly.

Our efforts to expand our international operations are subject to a number of risks, any of which could adversely reduce our future international sales and increase our losses.

Most of our revenues historically to date are attributable to sales and business operations in jurisdictions other than the United States. Although we are now focusing our efforts in generating more United States based revenues, we continue to pursue international sales, in particular in Asia and Europe. Our international operations could be subject to a number of risks, any of which could adversely affect our future international sales and operating results, including:

Negative developments in any of these areas in one or more countries could result in a reduction in demand for our products, the cancellation or delay of orders already placed, difficulty in collecting receivables, and a higher cost of doing business, any of which could adversely affect our business, results of operations or financial condition.

We are exposed to risks in operating in foreign markets, which may make operating in those markets difficult and thereby force us to curtail our business operations.

In conducting our business in foreign countries, we are subject to political, economic, legal, operational and other risks that are inherent in operating in other countries. Risks inherent to operating in other countries range from difficulties in settling transactions in emerging markets to possible nationalization, expropriation, price controls and other restrictive governmental actions. We also face the risk that exchange controls or similar restrictions imposed by foreign governmental authorities may restrict our ability to convert local currency received or held by us in their countries into U.S. dollars or other currencies, or to take those dollars or other currencies out of those countries.

It is possible that countries in which we do or intend to do business, or companies and their principals become subject to sanctions under U.S. law. This would prevent us from doing business with those countries or with those entities or individuals. We could be exposed to fines and penalties in the event of breach any applicable sanctions legislation or orders. In addition, we might be required to suspend or terminate existing contracts in order to comply with such sanctions, legislation or orders, which would adversely impact our future revenues and cash flows.

Cyber-attacks, breaches of network or information technology security, presentation attacks, natural disasters, pandemics, or terrorist attacks could have an adverse effect on our business.

Cyberattacks or other breaches of network or information technology (IT) security, natural disasters, pandemics such as Covid-19, terrorist acts or acts of war may cause equipment failures or disrupt our systems and operations. We may be subject to attempts to breach the security of our networks and IT infrastructure through cyber-attack, presentation attacks to biometric data capture systems, including deep fakes and other threats developed by use of AI driven technologies, malware, computer viruses and other means of unauthorized access. While we regularly review our security policies, protocols, controls and systems to determine their effectiveness for detection and prevention of such attacks, and to make improvements and fix any known vulnerabilities where necessary, new means and methods for such attacks are constantly being developed by bad actors, facilitated by the easy access to generative AI and we may not become aware of such new attacks or vulnerabilities prior to being subject to such an attack. There is no guarantee that we can prevent all such attacks, even if we become aware of their potential. While we maintain insurance coverage for some of these events, the potential liabilities associated with these events could exceed the insurance coverage we maintain. A failure to protect the privacy of customer and employee confidential data against breaches of network or IT security could result in damage to our reputation. To date, we have not been subject to cyberattacks or other cyber incidents that we are aware of which, individually or in the aggregate, resulted in a material impact to our operations or financial condition.

For us to further penetrate the marketplace, the marketplace must be confident that we provide effective security protection for governmental and other secured identification documents and other personally identifiable information or protected personal information, or PII. Although we are not aware that we have experienced any act of sabotage or unauthorized access by a third party of our software or technology to date, if an actual or perceived breach of security occurs in our internal systems or those of our customers, regardless of whether we caused the breach, it could adversely affect the market’s perception of our products and services. This could cause us to lose customers, resellers, alliance partners or other business partners, thereby causing our revenues to decline. If we or our customers were to experience a breach of our internal systems, our business could be severely harmed by adversely affecting the market’s perception of our products and services.

Most recently, we have considered the impact of pandemics (e.g. COVID-19) on our overall operations. The impact of any disease which may give rise to a pandemic in the United States and worldwide are unknown, and the widespread growth in infections, or travel restrictions, quarantines or site closures imposed as a result of disease, among other things, may impact the ability of our employees, sub-contractors, or our customers’ employees and sub-contractors to attend places of work, to meet with potential customers, or undertake implementations at our customer’s locations. In addition, such a disease could lead to disruptions in our supply chain, causing shortages or unavailability of software updates, or necessary equipment. Any of these outcomes could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.

Acquisitions present many risks that could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

In the past we have closed acquisitions of various companies. We may also pursue select acquisitions in the future. The success of our future growth strategy will depend on our ability to integrate our existing operations, together with any future acquisition of which none are planned at this date. Integrating the operations of our existing business with any future acquisitions, including anticipated cost savings and additional revenue opportunities, involves a number of challenges. The failure to meet these integration challenges could seriously harm our results of operations and the market price of our shares may decline as a result. Realizing the benefits of any future acquisition will depend in part on the integration of intellectual property, products, operations, personnel and sales force and the completion of assignments of current and past contracts and rights. These integration activities are complex and time-consuming, and we may encounter unexpected difficulties or incur unexpected costs. We may not successfully integrate our existing and acquired operations, and may not realize the anticipated net reductions in costs and expenses and other benefits and synergies of the acquisition to the extent, or in the timeframe, anticipated. In addition to the integration risks, we could face numerous other risks, including, but not limited to, the following:

The occurrence of any of these risks could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition or cash flows, particularly in the case of a larger acquisition, or concurrent acquisitions.

The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East may impact the business of the Company, the markets in which it operates and the financial markets, in which the Company needs to raise capital.

The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East may impact the Company and its operations in a number of different ways, which are yet to be fully assessed and are therefore uncertain. The Company’s principal concern is for the safety of the personnel who support from those regions. The Company works with third party sub-contractors for outsourced services, including software engineering and development, some of whom are based in Eastern Europe. The Company also works with outsourced engineers and developers and third-party providers in other parts of the world, including the United States, Europe, India, and Latin America. While the continuing impact of this conflict and the response of the United States and other countries to it by means of trade and economic sanctions, or other actions is still unknown, it could disrupt our ability to work with certain contractors. The Company has taken steps to diversify its sub-contractor base, which may in the short term give rise to additional costs and delays in delivering software and product upgrades.

The uncertainty impacting and potential interruption in energy and other supply chains resulting from military hostilities in Europe and the Middle East and the response of the United States and other countries to it by means of trade and economic sanctions, or other actions, may give rise to increases in costs of goods and services generally and may impact the market for our products as prospective customers reconsider additional capital expenditure, or other investment plans until the situation becomes clearer. On the other hand, the threat of increased cyber-attacks from multiple threat actors, including state-sponsored organizations may prompt enterprises to adopt additional security measures such as those offered by the Company.

For so long as the hostilities continue and perhaps even thereafter as the situation in Europe and the Middle East unfolds, we may see increased volatility in financial markets and a flight to safety by investors, which may impact our stock price and make it more difficult for the Company to raise additional capital at the time when it needs to do so, or for financing to be available upon acceptable terms. All or any of these risks separately, or in combination could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.

Interruptions, delays in service or defects in our systems could impair the delivery of our services and harm our business.

We depend on the efficient and uninterrupted operation of our computer network systems, software, telecommunications networks, and processing centers, as well as the systems and services of third parties, in order to provide services to our customers. All of our network systems are hosted “in the cloud” by internationally recognized third party service providers such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Our systems and host data centers are vulnerable to damage or interruption from, among other things, fire, natural disaster, power loss, telecommunications failure, terrorist acts, war, unauthorized entry, human error, and computer viruses or other defects. They may also be subject to break-ins, sabotage, intentional acts of vandalism and similar misconduct. We have security, backup and recovery systems in place, and business continuity plans that will be designed to ensure our systems will not be inoperable. However, there is still a risk that a system outage or data loss may occur which would not only damage our reputation but could also require the payment of penalties or damages to our clients if our systems do not meet certain operating standards. Despite precautions taken at these facilities, the occurrence of a natural disaster or an act of sabotage or terrorism, a decision to close the facilities without adequate notice or other unanticipated problems at these facilities could result in lengthy interruptions in our service. Our property and business interruption insurance may not be applicable or adequate to compensate us for all losses or failures that may occur.

Any damage to, failure of, or defects, bugs or errors in our systems or those of third parties, errors or delays in the processing of payment or other transactions, telecommunications failures or other difficulties could result in loss of revenue, loss of customers, loss of customer and consumer data, harm to our business or reputation, exposure to fraud losses or other liabilities, negative publicity, additional operating and development costs, and diversion of technical and other resources.

Third parties could obtain access to our proprietary information or could independently develop similar technologies.

Our success depends in part on our ability to protect our core technology and intellectual property. To date, we have relied primarily on a combination of patents, patent applications, trade secret and copyright laws, as well as nondisclosure and other contractual restrictions on copying, reverse engineering and distribution to protect our proprietary technology. There can be no assurance that any of our patent applications will result in the issuance of a patent or that the examination process will not require us to narrow our claims in any application. In addition, any patents may be contested, circumvented, found unenforceable or invalid and we may not be able to prevent third parties from infringing on them.

Despite the precautions we take, third parties may copy or obtain and use our technologies, ideas, know-how and other proprietary information without authorization or may independently develop technologies similar or superior to our technologies. In addition, the confidentiality and non-competition agreements between us and most of our employees, distributors and clients may not provide meaningful protection of our proprietary technologies or other intellectual property in the event of unauthorized use or disclosure. If we are not able to successfully defend our industrial or intellectual property rights, we may lose rights to technologies that we need to develop our business, which may cause us to lose potential revenues, or we may be required to pay significant license fees for the use of such technologies.

Our current patents and any patents that we may register in the future may provide only limited protection for our technology and may not be sufficient to provide competitive advantages to us. For example, competitors could be successful in challenging any issued patents or, alternatively, could develop similar or more advantageous technologies on their own or design around our patents. Any inability to protect intellectual property rights in our technology could enable third parties to compete more effectively with us.

In addition, the laws of certain foreign countries may not protect our intellectual property rights to the same extent as do the laws of the United States. Our means of protecting our intellectual property rights in the United States or any other country in which we operate may not be adequate to fully protect our intellectual property rights.

Third parties may assert that we are infringing their intellectual property rights; IP litigation could require us to incur substantial costs even when our efforts are successful.

We may face intellectual property litigation, which could be costly, harm our reputation, limit our ability to sell our products, force us to modify our products or obtain appropriate licenses, and divert the attention of management and technical personnel. Our products employ technology that may infringe on the proprietary rights of others, and, as a result, we could become liable for significant damages and suffer other harm to our business.

We have not been subject to material intellectual property litigation to date. Litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce any patents we have or may obtain and/or any other intellectual property rights, to protect our trade secrets, to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others, or to defend against claims of infringement or invalidity, and we may not prevail in any such future litigation. Litigation, whether or not determined in our favor or settled, could be costly, could harm our reputation and could divert the efforts and attention of our management and technical personnel from normal business operations. In addition, adverse determinations in litigation could result in the loss of our proprietary rights, subject us to significant liabilities, require us to seek licenses from third parties, prevent us from licensing our technology or selling or manufacturing our products, or require us to expend significant resources to modify our products or attempt to develop non-infringing technology, any of which could seriously harm our business.

Our products contain technology provided to us by third parties. Because we did not develop such technology ourselves, we may have little or no ability to determine in advance whether such technology infringes the intellectual property rights of any other party. Our suppliers and licensors may not be required to indemnify us in the event that a claim of infringement is asserted against us, or they may be required to indemnify us only with respect to intellectual property infringement claims in certain jurisdictions, and/or only up to a maximum amount, above which we would be responsible for any further costs or damages. In addition, we have indemnification obligations to certain parties with respect to any infringement of third-party patents and intellectual property rights by our products. If litigation were to be filed against these parties in connection with our technology, we would be required to defend and indemnify such parties.

Our officers, directors and holders of 5% of outstanding shares together beneficially own a significant portion of our Common Stock and, as a result, can exercise control over stockholder and corporate actions.

Our officers and directors and the holders of at least 5% of the outstanding shares of the Company currently beneficially own approximately 10% of our outstanding Common Stock, and 15% on a fully diluted basis assuming the exercise of both vested and unvested options and warrants. As such, they have a significant influence over most matters requiring approval by stockholders, including the election of directors and approval of significant corporate transactions. This concentration of ownership may also have the effect of delaying or preventing a change in control, which in turn could have a material adverse effect on the market price of the Company’s Common Stock or prevent stockholders from realizing a premium over the market price for their Shares.

We face competition. Some of our competitors have greater financial or other resources, longer operating histories and greater name recognition than we do and one or more of these competitors could use their greater resources and/or name recognition to gain market share at our expense or could make it very difficult for us to establish market share.

The market for our service offerings is highly competitive and rapidly evolving. We face competition from a broad range of providers with solutions across the identity management lifecycle, including:

It is also possible that, as the digital identity market continues to grow and evolve, larger companies with significant resources may increase their presence in the market and develop competing solutions through internal efforts or partnerships with existing players.

Due to our ability to serve both identity verification and authentication needs, as well as the tendency for enterprises to acquire multiple digital identity solutions, we can and often do co-exist with competing products within our customer base.

The resources available to our competitors to develop new products and introduce them into the marketplace exceed the resources currently available to us. Some of our competitors have longer operating histories and greater name recognition than we do and one or more of these competitors could use their greater resources and/or name recognition to gain market share at our expense or could make it very difficult for us to establish market share. As a result, our competitors may be able to compete more aggressively and sustain that competition over a longer period of time that we can. This intense competitive environment may require us to make changes in our products, pricing, licensing, services, distribution, or marketing to develop a market position. Each of these competitors has the potential to capture market share in our target markets, which could have an adverse effect on our position in our industry and on our business and operating results.

Our business is subject to changing regulations regarding corporate governance, disclosure controls, internal control over financial reporting and other compliance areas that will increase both our costs and the risk of noncompliance. If we fail to comply with these regulations, we could face difficulties in preparing and filing timely and accurate financial reports.

We are subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Dodd-Frank Act. We are also subject to the corporate governance and other listing rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”). Maintaining compliance with these rules and regulations, particularly as we have ceased to be an emerging growth company, will increase our legal, accounting and financial compliance costs, will make some activities more difficult, time-consuming and costly and may also place increased strain on our personnel, systems and resources.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires, among other things, that we maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures and at the time we cease to be a smaller reporting company, we will be required to provide attestation that we maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures by our registered public accounting firm. Any failure to develop or maintain effective controls, or any difficulties encountered in their implementation or improvement, could harm our operating results or cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations. Any failure to implement and maintain effective internal control also could adversely affect the results of periodic management evaluations regarding the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting that are required to include in our periodic reports filed with the SEC, under Section 404(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act or the annual auditor attestation reports regarding effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting that we will be required to include in our periodic reports filed with the SEC upon our ceasing to be a smaller reporting company, unless we meet certain criteria that would require such reports to be included prior to then, under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Ineffective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting could also cause investors to lose confidence in our reported financial and other information, which would likely have a negative effect on the trading price of shares of our Common Stock.

In order to maintain the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting going forward, we will need to expend significant resources and provide significant management oversight. There is a substantial effort involved in continuing to implement appropriate processes, document our system of internal control over relevant processes, assess their design, remediate any deficiencies identified and test their operation. As a result, management’s attention may be diverted from other business concerns, which could harm our business, operating results and financial condition. These efforts will also involve substantial accounting-related costs. We may experience difficulty in meeting these reporting requirements in a timely manner.

If we are unable to maintain key controls currently in place or that we implement in the future and pending such implementation, or if any difficulties are encountered in their implementation or improvement, (1) our management might not be able to certify, and our independent registered public accounting firm might not be able to report on, the adequacy of our internal control over financial reporting, which would cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations, (2) misstatements in our financial statements may occur that may not be prevented or detected on a timely basis and (3) we may be deemed to have significant deficiencies or material weaknesses, any of which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Implementing any appropriate changes to our internal controls may require specific compliance training of our directors, officers and employees, entail substantial costs in order to modify our existing accounting systems, and take a significant period of time to complete. Such changes may not, however, be effective in maintaining the adequacy of our internal controls, and any failure to maintain that adequacy, or consequent inability to produce accurate financial statements on a timely basis, could increase our operating costs and could materially impair our ability to operate our business. In the event that we are not able to demonstrate compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in a timely manner, our internal controls are perceived as inadequate or that we are unable to produce timely or accurate financial statements, our stock price could decline and we could be subject to sanctions or investigations by the SEC or other regulatory authorities, which would require additional financial and management resources.

Our amended and restated bylaws designate certain courts as the sole and exclusive forum for certain types of actions and proceedings that may be initiated by our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, or employees.

Our amended and restated bylaws provide that, unless we consent in writing to an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware will be the exclusive forum for: (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Company; (ii) any action asserting a claim for breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer, employee, or agent of ours to us or our stockholders; (iii) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law, the Certificate of Incorporation, or the bylaws; and (iv) any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine (the “Delaware Forum Provision”). In addition, our amended and restated bylaws provide that any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of our common stock is deemed to have notice of and consented to the Delaware Forum Provision.

Section 27 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), creates exclusive federal jurisdiction over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. As a result, the Delaware Forum Provision will not apply to suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or any other claim for which the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction. We note, however, that there is uncertainty as to whether a court would enforce this provision and that investors cannot waive compliance with the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder.

We recognize that the Delaware Forum Provision in our amended and restated bylaws may impose additional litigation costs on stockholders in pursuing any such claims, particularly if the stockholders do not reside in or near the State of Delaware. Additionally, the Delaware Forum Provision may limit our stockholders’ ability to bring a claim in a forum that they find favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers or employees, which may discourage such lawsuits against us and our directors, officers and employees even though an action, if successful, might benefit our stockholders. The Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware may also reach different judgments or results than would other courts, including courts where a stockholder considering an action may be located or would otherwise choose to bring the action, and such judgments may be more or less favorable to us than our stockholders.

There can be no assurance that we will be able to comply with the continued listing standards of the Nasdaq Capital Market. Our failure to meet the continued listing requirements of the Nasdaq Capital Market could result in a de-listing of our Common Stock.

We cannot assure you that we will be able to comply with the continuing listing requirements that we are required to meet in order to maintain a listing of our Common Stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market. If we fail to satisfy the continued listing requirements of the Nasdaq Capital Market, such as the minimum bid price requirement, or the minimum stockholder’s equity requirement, the Nasdaq Capital Market may take steps to de-list our Common Stock. Such a de-listing would likely have a negative effect on the price of our Common Stock and would impair our stockholders’ ability to sell or purchase our Common Stock when they wish to do so. In the event of a de-listing, we would take actions to restore our compliance with the Nasdaq Capital Market’s listing requirements, but we can provide no assurance that any action taken by us would result in our Common Stock becoming listed again, or that any such action would stabilize the market price or improve the liquidity of our Common Stock.

Sales of a substantial number of shares of our Common Stock in the public market by our existing stockholders could cause our share price to fall.

Sales of a substantial number of shares of our Common Stock in the public market, or the perception that these sales might occur, including sales by our executive officers, directors and significant stockholders could depress the market price of our Common Stock and could impair our ability to raise capital through the sale of additional equity securities. We are unable to predict the effect that sales may have on the prevailing market price of our Common Stock.

We may be subject to securities litigation, which is expensive and could divert management attention.

In the past, companies that have experienced volatility in the market price of their stock have been subject to securities class action litigation. We may be the target of this type of litigation in the future. Litigation of this type could result in substantial costs and diversion of management’s attention and resources, which could seriously hurt our business. Any adverse determination in litigation could also subject us to significant liabilities.

If securities or industry analysts do not publish or cease publishing research or reports about us, our business or our market, or if they adversely change their recommendations or publish negative reports regarding our business or our Common Stock, our stock price and trading volume could decline.

The trading market for our Common Stock will be influenced by the research and reports that industry or securities analysts may publish about us, our business, our market or our competitors. We do not have any control over these analysts and we cannot provide any assurance that analysts will cover us or provide favorable coverage. If any of the analysts who may cover us adversely change their recommendation regarding our shares, or provide more favorable relative recommendations about our competitors, our stock price would likely decline. If any analysts who may cover us were to cease coverage of the Company or fail to regularly publish reports on us, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which in turn could cause our stock price or trading volume to decline.

The market price of our common stock has been volatile and your investment in our stock could suffer a decline in value.

The market price of our common stock has experienced significant price and volume fluctuations. For example, during the three-year period ended December 31, 2025, the closing price of our common stock ranged from $0.86 to $11.95. In addition, the stock market has from time-to-time experienced significant price and volume fluctuations that have particularly affected the market prices for the common stock of technology companies and that have often been unrelated to the operating performance of particular companies. These broad market fluctuations may adversely affect the market price of our common stock. You may not be able to resell your shares at or above the price you paid for them due to fluctuations in the market price of our stock caused by changes in our operating performance or prospects and other factors.

Some specific factors, in addition to the other risk factors identified above, that may have a significant effect on the price of our stock, many of which we cannot control, include but are not limited to:

We do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.

We have never declared or paid cash dividends, and we do not anticipate paying cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Therefore, investors should not rely on an investment in our Common Stock as a source for any future dividend income. Our board of directors has complete discretion as to whether to distribute dividends. Even if our board of directors decides to declare and pay dividends, the timing, amount and form of future dividends, if any, will depend on our future results of operations and cash flow, our capital requirements and surplus, our financial condition, contractual restrictions and other factors deemed relevant by our board of directors.

Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments

None.

Item 1C. Cybersecurity

Governance

Item 2. Properties

The Company’s Headquarters is now located 1580 North Logan Street, Suite 660, Unit 51767, Denver, CO 80203. This is a virtual office address, we do not have any physical offices and all employees work remotely.

Item 3. Legal Proceedings

From time to time the Company is a party to various legal or administrative proceedings arising in the ordinary course of our business. While any litigation contains an element of uncertainty, we have no reason to believe that the outcome of such proceedings will have a material adverse effect on the financial condition or results of operations of the Company.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

Not applicable.

PART II

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Market Information

The high and low per share closing sales prices of the Company’s stock on the Nasdaq Market (ticker symbol AUID) for each quarter for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 were as follows:

Holders of our Common Stock

As of March 6, 2026, there were approximately 128 stockholders of record of our common stock. This number does not include shares held by brokerage clearing houses, depositories or others in unregistered form. The stock transfer agent for our securities is Computershare Shareholder Services, PO Box 505000, Louisville, Kentucky 40233.

Dividends

The Company has never declared or paid any cash dividends on its common stock. The Company currently intends to retain future earnings, if any, to finance the expansion of its business. As a result, the Company does not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.

Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans as of December 31, 2025

The Company has adopted the authID Inc. 2017 Incentive Stock Plan, 2021 Equity Incentive Plan, and 2024 Equity Incentive Plan. The Company has no other equity incentive plans in effect as of December 31, 2025.

On September 28, 2017, the shareholders of the Company approved the 2017 Incentive Stock Plan (“2017 Incentive Plan”). On December 29, 2021 the shareholders of the Company approved the 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (“2021 Plan”). On June 26, 2024, the shareholders of the Company approved the 2024 Equity Incentive Plan (“2024 Plan”). The following is a summary of principal features of the 2017 Incentive Plan, the 2021 Plan, and the 2024 Plan. The summaries, however, do not purport to be a complete description of all the provisions of each plan. 

The 2017 Incentive Plan initially authorized Awards over 604,167 shares of common stock and at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on March 22, 2021, the stockholders approved and ratified an increase of 312,500 shares allocated to the 2017 Incentive Plan. No further awards may be made under the 2017 Incentive Plan. The 2021 Plan initially authorized Awards over 156,250 shares as well as (a) the balance of the shares which were not allocated to awards under the 2017 Incentive Plan and (b) any shares which are forfeited or cancelled under awards that lapse or expire under the prior plans. At the Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on June 26, 2023, the stockholders approved and ratified an increase of 362,500 shares to the 2021 Plan. No further awards may be made under the 2021 Incentive Plan. The 2024 Plan initially authorized 395,000 shares as well as (a) the balance of the shares which were not allocated to awards under the 2021 Incentive Plan and (b) any shares which are forfeited or cancelled under awards that lapse or expire under the prior plans. At the Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on June 26, 2025, the stockholders approved and ratified an increase of 295,000 shares to the 2024 Plan. All plans are administered by the Compensation Committee.

Under each plan, options may be granted which are intended to qualify as Incentive Stock Options (“ISOs”) under Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”) or which are not (“Non-ISOs”) intended to qualify as Incentive Stock Options thereunder. Other types of equity awards may also be granted under each of the plans include but are not limited to restricted stock, restricted stock units, and stock appreciation rights, which together with the ISOs and Non-ISOs are hereinafter collectively referred to as “Awards”. Each of the plans are not considered qualified deferred compensation plan under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not subject to the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”).

The terms of Awards granted under the Plans shall be contained in an agreement between the participant and the Company and such terms shall be determined by the Compensation Committee consistent with the provisions of the applicable Plan. The terms of Awards may or may not require a performance condition in order to vest the equity comprised in the relevant Award.

Any option granted under any of the Plans must provide for an exercise price of not less than 100% of the fair market value of the underlying shares on the date of grant, but the exercise price of any ISO granted to an eligible employee owning more than 10% of our outstanding common stock must not be less than 110% of fair market value on the date of the grant. The Plans further provide that with respect to ISOs the aggregate fair market value of the common stock underlying the options which are exercisable by any option holder during any calendar year cannot exceed $100,000. The term of each Plan option and the manner in which it may be exercised is determined by the board of directors or the compensation committee, provided that no option may be exercisable more than 10 years after the date of its grant and, in the case of an incentive option granted to an eligible employee owning more than 10% of the common stock, no more than five years after the date of the grant. In the event of any stock split of our outstanding common stock, the board of directors may adjust (a) the number of shares (i) reserved under the Plan and available for awards, (ii) covered by outstanding awards, (b) the exercise prices related to outstanding awards and (c) the appropriate Fair Market value and other price determinations for any awards in order to give effect to such stock split. Subject to the limitation on the aggregate number of shares issuable under the Plan, there is no maximum or minimum number of shares as to which Award may be granted to any person.

In addition, the Compensation Committee has from time to time approved the grant of options to purchase shares of common stock by way of Inducement Grants to new employees, which are outside the approved Plans, pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4). During 2025 the Company granted 30,000 such options. The options so granted are Non-ISOs and the terms of the Inducement Grants are contained in an agreement between the participant and the Company which are consistent with the Awards issued under the 2021 and 2024 Plans. 

The Company filed a Registration Statement on Form S-8 on November 12, 2021, with respect to the 2017 Incentive Plan and all outstanding Awards set forth in the above table. The Company filed further Registration Statements on Form S-8 on February 1, 2022 and April 25, 2025 with respect to the 2021 Plan and 2024 Plan, respectively.

Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities

Engagement Agreements

On June 12, 2024, the Company entered into an engagement agreement (the “Madison Engagement Agreement”) with Madison Global Partners, LLC (“Madison”), pursuant to which Madison agreed to serve as non-exclusive placement agent for the issuance and sale in a public offering of an aggregate of 1,464,965 shares (the “June Registered Shares”). The Company paid Madison cash fees and issued stock purchase warrants (the “June Madison Warrants”) to purchase up to 102,547 shares of common stock of the Company with a term of 5 years at an exercise price of $7.50 per share, which equal to 7.0% of the aggregate number of June Registered Shares placed in the offering.

On March 12, 2025, the Company entered into a further engagement agreement (the “March Madison Engagement Agreement”) with Madison which was amended as of March 26, 2025. Pursuant to the amended March Madison Engagement Agreement, Madison agreed to serve as co-placement agent for the issuance and sale in a public offering of an aggregate of 666,666 shares (the “April Madison Registered Shares”) and an aggregate of 694,444 shares and 450,000 pre-funded warrants from Dominari Securities LLC (the “April Dominari Registered Shares”). The Company paid Madison cash fees and issued stock purchase warrants (the “April Madison Warrants”) to purchase up to 80,999 shares of common stock of the Company with a term of 5 years at an exercise price of $4.50 per share, which equal 7.0% of the aggregate number of April Madison Registered Shares placed in the offering to Madison investors and 3.0% of the aggregate number of April Dominari Registered Shares placed in the offering to Dominari investors.

On March 25, 2025, the Company entered into an engagement agreement (the “Dominari Engagement Agreement”) with Dominari Securities LLC (“Dominari”), pursuant to which Dominari agreed to serve as exclusive placement agent for the issuance and sale in a public offering of an aggregate of 694,444 shares and 450,000 pre-funded warrants (the “April Dominari Registered Shares”). The Company paid Dominari cash fees and issued stock purchase warrants (the “April Dominari Warrants”) to purchase up to 91,556 shares of common stock of the Company with a term of 5 years at an exercise price of $4.50 per share, which equal 8.0% of the aggregate number of April Dominari Registered Shares placed in the offering.

On May 7, 2025, Madison agreed to serve as co-placement agent for the issuance and sale in a public offering of an aggregate of 89,285 shares (the “May Madison Registered Shares”) and an aggregate of 283,775 shares from Dominari (the “May Dominari Registered Shares”). The Company paid Madison cash fees and issued stock purchase warrants (the “May Madison Warrants”) to purchase up to 14,762 shares of common stock of the Company with a term of 5 years at an exercise price of $5.60 per share, which equal 7.0% of the aggregate number of May Madison Registered Shares placed in the offering to Madison investors and 3.0% of the aggregate number of May Dominari Registered Shares placed in the offering to Dominari investors.

On May 7, 2025, Dominari also served as exclusive placement agent for the issuance and sale in a public offering of an aggregate of 283,775 shares (the “May Dominari Registered Shares”). The Company paid Dominari cash fees and issued stock purchase warrants (the “May Dominari Warrants”) to purchase up to 22,702 shares of common stock of the Company with a term of 5 years at an exercise price of $5.60 per share, which equal 8.0% of the aggregate number of May Dominari Registered Shares placed in the offering.

On November 20, 2025, the Company entered into a further engagement agreement (the “November Madison Engagement Agreement”) with Madison, pursuant to which Madison agreed to serve as co-placement agent for the issuance and sale in a public offering of an aggregate of 284,757 shares (the “November Madison Registered Shares”) and an aggregate of 1,341,684 shares and 1,062,306 pre-funded warrants from Dominari (the “November Dominari Registered Shares”). The Company paid Madison cash fees and issued stock purchase warrants (the “November Madison Warrants”) to purchase up to 92,051 shares of common stock of the Company with a term of 5 years at an exercise price of $1.35 per share, which equal 7.0% of the aggregate number of November Madison Registered Shares placed in the offering to Madison investors and 3.0% of the aggregate number of November Dominari Registered Shares placed in the offering to Dominari investors. The Company also issued stock purchase warrants (the “November Strategic Advisor Madison Warrants”) to purchase up to 250,000 shares of common stock of the Company with a term of 5 years at an exercise price of $1.62.

On November 24, 2025, Dominari also served as exclusive placement agent for the issuance and sale in a public offering of an aggregate of 1,341,684 shares and 1,062,306 pre-funded warrants (the “November Dominari Registered Shares”). The Company paid Dominari cash fees and issued stock purchase warrants (the “November Dominari Warrants”) to purchase up to 192,319 shares of common stock of the Company with a term of 5 years at an exercise price of $1.35 per share, which equal 8.0% of the aggregate number of November Dominari Registered Shares placed in the offering.

Director & Executive Officer Stock Option Grants

On May 20, 2024, the Company made a grant of options to Mr. Mehta to acquire 13,282 shares of common stock at the exercise price of $7.78 and exercisable for a period of ten years, subject to achievement of service conditions.

On August 13, 2024, the Company made a grant of options to each of Messrs. Mehta, Jisser, Koehneman, Thompson and to Ms. White to acquire 15,627 shares of common stock. Each such option is at the exercise price of $8.67 per share, exercisable for a period of ten years, vesting over a period of twelve months.

On November 12, 2024, the Company made a grant of options to Mr. Erick Soto to acquire 100,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $6.94, exercisable for a period of ten years, vesting over a period of thirty-six months.

On June 4, 2025, the Company made grants of options to Mr. Edward Sellitto to acquire 45,000 shares of common stock, to Mr. Thomas Szoke to acquire 33,000 shares of common stock, to Mr. Rhoniel Daguro to acquire 10,000 shares of common stock and to Mr. Erick Soto to acquire 1,000 shares of common stock. All grants were made at the exercise price of $5.35 and are exercisable for a period of ten years, vesting over a period of twelve months.

On September 4, 2025, the Company made a grant of options to each of Messrs. Mehta, Jisser, Koehneman, Garchik, Venkataraman, Shevelyov, Menghani and to Ms. White to acquire 38,024 shares each of common stock. Each such option is at the exercise price of $3.90 per share, exercisable for a period of ten years, vesting over a period of twelve months.

On September 4, 2025, the Company made a grant of options to each of Messrs. Garchik, Venkataraman, Shevelyov, Menghani to acquire 12,500 shares of common stock at the exercise price of $3.90 and exercisable for a period of ten years, vesting over a period of three years.

Other Stock Option Grants

In addition, the Company issued options by way of Inducement Grants to new employees, which are outside the approved Plans, pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).

During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company granted a total of 200,000 such options to certain new employees at exercise prices ranging from $5.99 per share to $9.61 per share.

During the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company granted a total of 30,000 such options to a new employee at an exercise price of $5.89 per share.

All the offers and sales of securities listed above were made to accredited investors. The issuance of the above securities is exempt from the registration requirements under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and/or Regulation D promulgated thereunder.

Item 6. Reserved.

Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are based on our financial statements, which we have prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”). The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, as well as the reported revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate estimates and judgments, including those described in greater detail below. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other factors that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying value of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.

As used in this “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation,” except where the context otherwise requires, the term “we,” “us,” “our,” “authID” or “the Company,” refers to the business of authID Inc.

Overview

authID ensures enterprises “Know Who’s Behind the Device”^TM for every customer or employee login and transaction, through its easy-to-integrate, patented, biometric identity platform. authID powers biometric identity proofing, biometric authentication, and account recovery with a fast, accurate, user-friendly experience. With our PrivacyKey™ solution, authID provides a highly accurate biometric authentication, while storing no biometric data. authID stops fraud at onboarding, blocks deepfakes, prevents account takeover, and eliminates password risks and costs, through the faster, frictionless, and most accurate user identity experience demanded by today’s digital ecosystem.

Our Platform

Our cloud-based platform was developed with internally developed software as well as acquired and licensed technology and provides the following core services:

Biometric Identity Verification - Proof

Biometric identity verification establishes the trusted identity of a user based on a variety of ground truth sources, including government-issued identity documents such as national IDs, driver’s licenses and passports or electronic machine-readable travel documents (or eMRTDs). Our Verified^TM platform detects presentation attack and spoofing threats, evaluates the authenticity of security features present on a government-issued identity document, and biometrically matches the reference picture of the document with a live user’s selfie (a photograph that the user has taken of themselves). Usually occurring at account opening or onboarding, identity verification ensures that the enterprise knows that the person interacting with the enterprise is who they say they are, in real time. authID’s Proof^TM identity verification product eliminates the need for costly and less accurate face-to-face, in-person ID checks and instead provides a verified identity in seconds. Additionally, authID’s PrivacyKey^TM technology enables customers to perform biometric verification through the use of Public/Private Keys that is performed without storing any biometric data, which ensures individual data privacy. In a digital, online world of increasing fraud and security threats, Proof speeds up onboarding and offers our customers confidence in the identities of consumers, employees or third-party vendors.

Biometric Identity Authentication - Verified

Biometric identity authentication provides any organization with a secure, convenient solution to validate that an individual is the verified account owner for various purposes including passwordless login and performing specific transactions, or functions. The authID Verified product allows users to confirm their identity with their facial biometric by simply taking a selfie on a mobile phone or device of their choosing (as opposed to dedicated hardware). The solution includes a patented audit trail created for each transaction, containing the digitally signed transaction details, with proof of identity authentication and consent. Verified allows users to recover, via a facial biometric, account access that is lost or blocked due to expired credentials, lockouts, lost or stolen devices, or compromised accounts. Because the account owner’s root of trust is established in the cloud, recovery is independent of any device or hardware. In this way, account recovery is instant, portable, and does not require the presence of or access to a previously provisioned device in order to secure access from a different device.

PrivacyKey Privacy Preserving Biometrics

authID’s PrivacyKey solution provides biometric authentication without the requirement to store any biometric or derivative of biometric data. The technology transforms biometric verification into Public/Private Key cryptography whereby the facial image of the person is converted into an elliptical public/private key pair where only the public key is stored and the private key only exists during authentication and is deleted immediately after. The solution is compliant to the ISO30136 Privacy Biometric standard and provides a False Match Rate accuracy of 1:1 Billion at a False Rejection Rate of 0.3%, as confirmed by independent tests conducted by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (“CSRIO”).

Identity Exchange (IDX^TM) Platform

authID’s Identity Exchange (IDX) is a next-generation platform purpose-built to allow authorized personnel to create or claim a central credential that can be leveraged across multiple subsidiaries of a large enterprise, simplifying and securing the management of workforce identities across distributed workforces that include employees, contractors, vendors, and other third parties. IDX modernizes identity management with centrally-managed, biometric-bound, passwordless, interoperable and reusable credentials that stop phishing attacks, ensuring only verified users can access sensitive systems and data. IDX is the first enterprise platform built on the Accountable Digital Identity Association (ADI Association) specification, ensuring it is aligned with global interoperability and data sovereignty standards as well as privacy regulations.

authID Mandate- Agentic AI Security Framework

authID Mandate is a framework for biometrically binding human sponsors to the AI agents they launched, ensuring that agentic activity is governed by the user’s own scope, while also providing an immutable audit trail of that sponsorship. This provides a level of governance far beyond machine IDs or vulnerable tokens that are otherwise the basis for most agentic deployment of auditability.

Key Customer Benefits

Our solution allows our enterprise customers to:

Key Trends

We believe that our financial results will be impacted by several market trends in the identity verification and authentication markets, as well as expanding digital transformation efforts across a wide range of market segments. These trends include:

Our results are also impacted by the changes in levels of spending on identity verification, management and security methods, and thus, negative trends in the global economy and other factors which negatively impact such spending may negatively impact the growth in our revenue from those products. The global economy has been undergoing a period of political and economic uncertainty and stock markets are experiencing high levels of volatility, and it is difficult to predict how long this uncertainty and volatility will continue.

We plan to grow our business by increasing the use of our services by our existing customers, by adding new customers through our direct salesforce, channel partners and by expanding into new markets and innovation. If we are successful in these efforts, we would expect our revenue to continue to grow.

Going Concern

These consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“US GAAP”) assuming the Company will continue on a going concern basis, which implies the Company will continue to meet its obligations and continue its operations for the next year following the issuance date of these consolidated financial statements.

As of December 31, 2025, the Company had an accumulated deficit of approximately $191.7 million. For the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company earned net revenue of approximately $2.0 million, used $15.0 million to fund its operations, and incurred a net loss from operations of approximately $17.9 million.

The continuation of the Company as a going concern is dependent upon financial support from the Company’s stockholders, the ability of the Company to obtain additional debt or equity financing to continue operations, the Company’s ability to generate sufficient cash flows from operations, successfully locating and negotiating with other business entities for potential acquisition and acquiring new clients to generate revenues and cash flows. In April, May and November 2025, the Company raised a total of approximately $11.4 million after expenses from existing and new stockholders through the sale of Common Stock pursuant to registered direct offerings. Going forward, the Company plans to raise additional funds to support its operations and investments as it seeks to create a sustainable organization. Our growth-oriented business plan to offer products to our customers will require continued capital investment and there is no guarantee that such financing will be available, or available on acceptable terms.

There is no assurance that the Company will ever be profitable. These condensed consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments to reflect the possible future effects on the recoverability and classification of assets or the amounts and classifications of liabilities that may result should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern. As there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to achieve positive cash flows (become cash flow positive) and raise sufficient capital to maintain operations, there is substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of twelve months from the date of these consolidated financial statements were issued.

Subsequent Events

Management of the Company has performed a review of all events and transactions occurring after the condensed consolidated balance sheet date and determined there were no events or transactions requiring adjustment to or disclosure in the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements.

Related Party Transactions

Commercial Agreements

On June 6, 2023, the Company entered into a services agreement with The Pipeline Group, Inc. (“TPG”). Ken Jisser, a director of the Company, is the founder and CEO of TPG, a technology-enabled services company that aims to deliver business results for companies looking to build a predictable and profitable pipeline. The agreement provides that TPG will assist in providing outsourced sales including business development resources for outbound calling, provide support for automated dialing technology, classify customer data and other sales related services for an initial term of one year. On October 25, 2023, on December 19, 2023 and on August 26, 2024, the Company entered into amendments to the above services agreement, pursuant to which TPG will provide certain additional services to the Company. In consideration of the services, the Company paid TPG $70,000 per month. On September 26, 2025, the Company signed another amendment with TPG to reduce the monthly fees to $42,000. The amendment is effective October 1, 2025. On September 30, 2025, the Company entered into a services agreement with TPG. The agreement provides that the Company will provide biometric authentication services to TPG for an initial term of two years, with an annual license fee of $2,500 and monthly minimum fees ramping to $1,000 per month. The summary of the agreement entered with TPG is qualified in its entirety by reference to the forms of such agreements, which were filed as exhibits to certain of the Company’s filings with the SEC and are incorporated by reference herein (See “Exhibits”).

On June 27, 2024, Stephen Garchik, a holder of 10% of the outstanding shares, purchased 150,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at a price of $1,125,000. The purchase price of the shares issued in this transaction was the same as the purchase price paid by all other investors in the same round and represented a 24% discount to the Nasdaq Official Closing Price in effect on the date of the transaction.

On June 26, 2025 Mr Garchik was elected as a Director of the Company. On November 24, 2025, Mr. Garchik, purchased 126,609 shares of the Company’s common stock at a price of $216,500. The purchase price of the shares issued in this transaction was equal to the Nasdaq Consolidated Closing Bid Price in effect on the date of the transaction.

Since June 2023, the Company has employed Dale Daguro, the brother of our CEO, Rhoniel Daguro as a VP Sales. Dale Daguro’s employment is at will and may be terminated at any time, with or without cause. Dale’s compensation is commensurate with other executives employed by the Company at a similar level of seniority and experience. During the year ended December 31, 2025, Dale Daguro earned approximately $283,000 in base salary and sales commission.

As further described in Item 13 “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions and Director Independence” and in Note 6 “Related Party Transactions” to the Consolidated Financial Statements, the Company has entered into various equity investments and employment agreements with Directors and Officers of the Company.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Our significant accounting policies are more fully described in the notes to our consolidated financial statements. Those material accounting estimates that we believe are the most critical to an investor’s understanding of our financial results and condition are discussed immediately below and are particularly important to the portrayal of our financial position and results of operations and require the application of significant judgment by our management to determine the appropriate assumptions to be used in the determination of certain estimates.

Use of Estimates

In preparing these consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP, management is required to make estimates and assumptions that may affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amount of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. Actual results could differ from those estimates. 

Revenue Recognition

Revenues, net is defined as gross revenues, less discounts and sales concessions. 

Software License – The Company recognizes revenue based on the identified performance obligations over the performance period for fixed consideration and / or variable fees generated. Variable fees are typically earned over time based on monthly users, transaction volumes or a monthly flat fee rate. We allocate the selling price in a contract which has multiple performance obligations based on the contract selling price that we believe represents a fair market price for the service rendered based on estimated standalone selling price. Transaction fees are billed monthly and are constrained to transactions incurred within the month.

For contracts with minimum annual fees, the Company generally recognizes the amount of revenue ratably over the contract year and records contract assets for the amount in excess of monthly contract billings relating to variable contract consideration. For certain contracts, the Company enters into an agreement which stipulates a minimum annual fee which is due at the end of the contract year, in excess of the amount of monthly billings. The Company may also require pre-payment or milestone payments of the minimum annual fee. The amount of any billed fees in excess of revenue recognized is recorded as deferred revenue. The Company accounts for price concessions as reductions to the transaction price under ASC 606. Price concessions represent implied or estimated future reductions in consideration that the Company expects to grant, based on known facts and circumstances, including customer usage patterns and strategic considerations. These concessions are treated as variable consideration and are included in the transaction price only to the extent that it is probable that a significant reversal of cumulative revenue will not occur when the uncertainty is resolved. For the years-ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 the Company granted approximately $0.9 million and $0 in concessions respectively.

Any usage-based fees in excess of the minimum contract amount are charged to the customer and allocated to the annual period in which they are earned under the contract. At the beginning of each annual period in the contract, the Company estimates the variable amounts for the annual period subject to the constrained variable consideration (usage-based fees) and recognizes that amount on a time-elapsed basis over the annual period. At each reporting date within an annual period, the Company reassesses its estimate of the excess variable amounts for the annual period and updates the amount recognized on a time-elapsed basis over the remainder of the annual period.

Stock-based compensation

The Company has accounted for stock-based compensation under the provisions of FASB ASC 718 – “Stock Compensation” which requires the use of the fair-value based method to determine compensation for all arrangements under which employees and others receive shares of stock or equity instruments (stock options and common stock purchase warrants). For both employee and non-employee awards, the fair market value of each stock option award is estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes and/or Monte-Carlo valuation models as appropriate that uses assumptions for expected volatility, expected dividends, expected term, and the risk-free interest rate. Expected volatilities are based on historical volatility of the Company’s stock and other factors estimated over the expected term of the stock options. For employee awards, the expected term of options granted is derived based on exercise history. We continually monitor exercise activity from the date of grant and consider our short history and certain stock price growth during various periods to determine if expected term should be modified. The risk-free rate is based on the U.S. Treasury yield curve in effect at the time of grant for the period of the expected term. The Company accounts for forfeitures of employee awards as they occur.

Adjusted EBITDA

This discussion includes information about Adjusted EBITDA that is not prepared in accordance with GAAP. Adjusted EBITDA is not based on any standardized methodology prescribed by GAAP and is not necessarily comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. A reconciliation of this non-GAAP measure is included below. Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure that represents GAAP net income (loss) adjusted to exclude (1) interest expense and debt discount and debt issuance costs amortization expense, (2) interest income, (3) provision for income taxes, (4) Amortization, (5) stock-based compensation expense and certain other items management believes affect the comparability of operating results.

Management believes that Adjusted EBITDA, when viewed with our results under GAAP and the accompanying reconciliations, provides useful information about our period-over-period results. Adjusted EBITDA is presented because management believes it provides additional information with respect to the performance of our fundamental business activities and is also frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of comparable companies. We also rely on Adjusted EBITDA as a primary measure to review and assess the operating performance of our company and our management, and it will be a focus as we invest in and grow the business.

Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool, and you should not consider it in isolation from, or as a substitute for, analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Some of these limitations are:

Because of these limitations, Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered as a measure of discretionary cash available to us to invest in the growth of our business. We compensate for these limitations by relying primarily on our GAAP results and using Adjusted EBITDA only as a supplement to our GAAP results.  

The increase in Adjusted EBITDA Loss From Operations in 2025 compared to 2024 can be attributed to several factors. The Company invested significantly in research and development, and people as well as incurred credit loss expense related to certain customer contracts resulting in an increase in its overall operating expenses.

Results of Operations and Financial Condition for the Year Ended December 31, 2025 as Compared to the Year Ended December 31, 2024

Revenues, net

During the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company’s net revenues were approximately $2.0 million compared to approximately $0.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2024. Revenue increased as we acquired and went live with new customers.

During the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company recorded approximately $0.9 million in estimated concessions related to two customer contracts, one of which included an annual minimum usage fee payable on December 31, 2025. The customers’ usage declined unexpectedly and remained significantly below the minimum commitment, despite consistent communication from the customers that their usage would increase. Given the strategic importance of these customers to the Company, as well as management’s expectations regarding their future usage growth and ongoing new business development opportunities, the Company elected to provide concessions on the annual minimum fees and unpaid balances in order to preserve and strengthen the customer relationships.

General and administrative expenses

During the year ended December 31, 2025, general and administrative expenses increased by approximately $3.3 million compared to the year ended December 31, 2024. The increase was driven by increases in employee related expenses, shares issued to management advisors, as well as credit loss expense related to certain customer contracts of approximately $0.8 million

Research and development expenses

During the year ended December 31, 2025, research and development expenses increased by approximately $1.4 million compared to the year ended December 31, 2024. The increase was due to continued investment in employees and contractors to deliver required product capabilities and performance for existing customers and sales prospects.

Amortization expense

During the year ended December 31, 2025, Amortization decreased by approximately $0.1 million compared to the year ended December 31, 2024, as the Company’s assets remaining useful life decreases.

Interest expense

Interest expense includes interest expense, debt issuance and discount amortization expense. Interest expense remained flat during the years ended December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024.

 Interest income

Interest income comprises bank interest earned on the Company’s cash balances. Interest income decreased during the year ended December 31, 2025, by approximately $0.2 million compared to the year ended December 31, 2024.

Macro-Economic Conditions

The global economy has been undergoing a period of political and economic uncertainty and stock markets are experiencing high levels of volatility, and it is difficult to predict how long this uncertainty and volatility will continue. The frequent and sudden changes in international trade negotiations and tariffs, continuing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, inflationary pressures, and rising energy prices have impacted the United States and other major economies and have created uncertainty in the markets. As a result, many businesses, especially in the technology sector, have made significant reductions in expenditure, including reductions in force and investment freezes. Our sales and results are also impacted by the changes in levels of spending on identity verification, management and security methods, and thus, negative trends in the global economy and other factors which negatively impact such spending may negatively impact the growth of our revenue from those products.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

As of December 31, 2025, current assets were $5.7 million and current liabilities outstanding amounted to $1.4 million which resulted in net working capital of $4.3 million.

Net cash used by operating activities was $14.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to $11.6 million in 2024. Cash used in operations for 2025 and 2024 was primarily the result of funding the business operations as the Company invested in people and product.

Net cash used in investing activities in 2025 and 2024 was approximately $0.0 million and $0.1 million for the payment of patent fees and purchases of intangible assets.

Net cash provided by financing activities for 2025 and 2024 consisted of approximately $11.2 million and $10.0 million in proceeds from the sale of common stock, net of offering costs.

In 2026, the Company will continue to be opportunistic and judicious in raising additional funds to support its operations and investments as it creates a sustainable organization. There is no guarantee that such financing will be available, or if available that it will be on acceptable terms.

Our growth-oriented business plan to offer products to our customers will require continued capital investment. Research and development activities and technology deployment will require continued investment. 

The Company projects that the current and past investments in technology and systems will lead to revenue expansion, thereby reducing liquidity needs. However, to further implement its business plan and satisfy its working capital requirements, the Company will need to raise more capital. There is no guarantee that the Company will be able to raise additional equity or debt financing at acceptable terms, if at all.

There is no guarantee that our current business plan will not change, and because of such change, we will need additional capital to implement such business plan. Further, assuming we achieve our expected growth plan, of which there is no guarantee, we will need additional capital to implement growth beyond our current business plan. As a result of these factors, there is substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.

Description of Indebtedness

As of December 31, 2025, the Company has fully repaid all Senior Secured Convertible Notes outstanding and discharged the security interests.

See Note 5 of the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information associated with the convertible notes payable.

Equity Financing

See Note 7 of the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information associated with equity financing in 2025 and 2024.

2025 Common Stock Transactions

2024 Common Stock Transactions

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

The Company has no off-balance sheet arrangements that are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources that is deemed by our management to be material to investors.

Contractual Obligations

As of December 31, 2025, the Company had no outstanding long-term contractual obligations. 

Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

As a smaller reporting company, as defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, we are not required to provide the information required by this Item 7A.

Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

Our consolidated financial statements and notes thereto and the report of our independent registered public accounting firm (PCAOB ID 00677), are set forth on pages F-1 through F-26 of this report.

Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

None

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

As of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer performed an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as defined in Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15(e) of the Exchange Act. Based on the evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2025, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that the information required to be disclosed by the Company in the report that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms.

Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting for the Company, as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Our internal control over financial reporting is designed to provide reasonable, but not absolute, assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S. accepted accounting principles. Our management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal control over financial reporting will prevent or detect all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well-designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the control system’s objectives will be met. The design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Further, because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that misstatements due to error or fraud will not occur or that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, have been detected and such evaluation is subject to the risks discussed in item 1A – Risk Factors of this Report.

The Company’s management assessed the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, using the criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on management’s assessment using the above criteria, management concluded that the Company maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025.

This Form 10-K does not include an attestation report of our independent registered public accounting firm regarding internal controls over financial reporting. Management’s report was not subject to attestation by our independent registered accounting firm in accordance with SEC rules.

Item 9B. Other Information

During the quarter ended December 31, 2025, no director or officer adopted or terminated (i) any contract, instruction or written plan for the purchase or sale of securities of the Company intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c) or (ii) any “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” as defined in paragraph (c) of item 408 of Regulation S-K.

Item 9C. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections.

Not applicable. 

PART III

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers, and Corporate Governance;

The current Directors and Officers of the Company are as follows:

Rhoniel A. Daguro

Mr. Daguro joined our company as a director on March 9, 2023 and was appointed CEO on March 23, 2023. He has over 20 years of sales, marketing, technology, and venture capital experience. He has built multiple profitable software and professional services firms. Most recently, from 2018 to 2022, he served as the Chief Revenue Officer of Socure Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Daguro held various executive sales positions with Persistent Systems, Hortonworks, and Oracle.

Edward C. Sellitto

Mr. Sellitto joined authID as Chief Financial Officer of the Company on August 15, 2023. Mr. Sellitto has over 15 years of experience in Financial Management and Revenue Operations roles supporting a wide range of industries and company sizes, from startups to Fortune 100 organizations. Most recently, from December 2022 through present, he served as Vice President, Revenue Operations at Zero Hash, a Digital Asset-as-a-Service infrastructure provider. From February 2022 through December 2022, Mr. Sellitto served as the Head of Go-To-Market Financial Planning and Analysis for Sprinklr (NYSE: CXM) and held various roles including Director – Sales Operations and VP – Revenue Operations with Source from May 2019 through February 2022. Further, from 2018 to 2019, Mr. Sellitto served as the Director – Sales Operations for SmartSource Rentals. Ed holds an MBA in Corporate Finance and Strategy from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Thomas R. Szoke

Mr. Szoke is a co-founder of authID and has over 35 years of executive management, solutions engineering, and operations management experience in Government Security, Identity Access Management and SaaS solutions industries. He rejoined the Company on March 9, 2023 and in April 2023 became the Company’s Chief Technology Officer and was a director from March 2023 until June 2025. Mr. Szoke previously served as a Director and the Company’s Chief Solutions Architect and has held several other executive positions since its inception, from 2013 through 2021. He has also expanded the Company’s market presence and product portfolio through technological innovation and global strategic partnerships. Mr. Szoke has been issued several US and international patents focused on identity solutions and has pioneered the concept and development of different product lines for the Company including its Multi-Factor Out-of-Band Identity and Transaction Authentication Platform. From 2021 to 2023, he was an independent consultant for the Company and others. 

Erick Soto

Mr. Soto joined authID as Chief Product Officer of the Company on September 23, 2024. Mr. Soto is a seasoned product leader with over 15 years of experience in product management within the fintech and identity industries. Mr. Soto most recently served as Chief Product Officer at Oxygen Health, a provider of health benefit plans, from September 2023, through August 2024. From September 2022 to August 2023, Mr. Soto was Chief Product Officer – New Digital Initiatives at BBVA, the global financial services group. Prior to that from April 2018 to July 2022, Erick was VP of Product at Socure, a provider of identity verification and fraud prevention solutions. 

Stephen J. Garchik

Mr. Garchik has been associated with the Company for approximately 10 years as a major investor and supporter and now holder of 10% of the outstanding common stock. Mr. Garchik has since 1997 been President of SJM Partners, a real estate development, design and construction, leasing and management company. SJM Partners owns over 40 retail, commercial and residential properties. Mr. Garchik serves on the board of several non-profit institutions. He holds a Bachelor of Science and M.B.A. degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ken Jisser

Mr. Jisser joined authID on March 9, 2023. He is the Founder & CEO of The Pipeline Group, Inc., a technology-enabled services company that aims to deliver business results for companies looking to build predictable and profitable pipeline. Mr. Jisser founded the company in his garage in 2017, and it reached #415 among the fastest growing private companies in America, according to Inc. Magazine rankings published in 2021. Prior to that, Mr. Jisser served as GTM Advisor at Druva Inc., where he rebuilt the global inside sales team.

Michael L. Koehneman

Mr. Koehneman joined our company as a Director on June 9, 2021. Mr. Koehneman previously held various positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, a global accounting firm, through 2020, including the Global Advisory Chief Operating Officer and Human Capital Leader from 2016 through 2019, the U.S. Advisory Operations Leader from 2005 through 2016 responsible for the oversight of Advisory services for PwC, including business unit performance, finance, investments, human resources, acquisitions, and administration, and the Lead Engagement Partner for Financial Statement Audits and Internal Control and Security Reviews from 1993 through 2004 for several public and private company audits. Since 2020 he has also served as a director and member of the Audit Committee of Aspen Group, Inc.

Kunal Mehta

Mr. Mehta became a Director of the Company on March 25, 2024. Mr. Mehta has over 25 years of experience building value-creation programs for private equity firms and industry experience scaling global revenue operations, marketing, and sales programs for several of the biggest names in the technology space. In January 2025, Mr. Mehta joined LaunchQ Inc. (dba TPG Technologies), a go-to-market technology company, as CEO. From 2022-2024, he was an Expert Partner at Boston, Massachusetts-based Bain & Company, working with a number of Private Equity firms to accelerate Go To Market (GTM) value creation. Between Sept 2019 and March 2022, he built the Go To Market (GTM) Center of Excellence at Menlo Park, CA-based Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV). From September 2018 to March 2019, Mr. Mehta worked at Druva, a private equity backed portfolio company as VP of Sales Strategy and Operations. Mr. Mehta began his management career at Hewlett-Packard, progressing through a series of solutions, marketing, and enablement roles with increasing responsibility. Mr. Mehta earned his MBA in Management of Information Systems, BA in Economics from The George Washington University in Washington, DC, and MHS in Health Finance & Management from Johns Hopkins.

Ram Menghani

Mr. Menghani has been President of NEC Enterprise Communication Technologies, Inc. since 2020, having joined NEC Corporation of America in 2001, serving in various roles in product management and development. He has over 30 years of global leadership experience in unified communications, product innovation, and digital transformation.

Mr. Menghani’s track record includes forging partnerships with major tech players like Microsoft and Oracle, modernizing legacy systems into cloud-based models, and guiding startups to successful exits.

Nicholas Shevelyov

Mr. Shevelyov is a cybersecurity executive with 30 years of experience who served as Chief Security and Privacy Officer and later as Chief Information Officer at Silicon Valley Bank from 2007 to 2021. He led key initiatives in cybersecurity strategy, cloud transformation, and modern software delivery there. Nick Shevelyov was an early design partner to industry leaders like Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, and FireEye. In 2021, he published “Cyber War…and Peace” and founded and serves as CEO of vCSO.ai, a cybersecurity advisory firm supporting organizations such as Group 42, the Audubon Society, and multiple cybersecurity product companies. Nick also serves on the Bay Area CSO Council and Cofense boards. Mr. Shevelyov has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from San Francisco State University and an MBA from University of San Francisco School of Management.

Shrikrishna Venkataraman

Krish Venkataraman is a seasoned technology and Wall Street executive with a strong track record of leading IPOs, strategic sales, and large-scale corporate transformations. Krish represents a new generation of multi-disciplinary executives, having served in roles including President, CFO, COO, CAO, and public/private board member. Beyond traditional finance responsibilities — treasury, controllership, M&A, and investor relations — he has led sales, HR, IT, legal, and operations teams with a strong focus on IT and cybersecurity governance. Mr. Venkataraman served as President of Daitaku a leading AI firm, from 2023 to April 2025. Prior to that from 2022 to 2023 he was the Chief Financial Officer of Socure Inc. Mr. Venkataraman served as Co-President and Chief Financial Officer of KnowBe4 Inc (Formerly Nasdaq: KNBE) a global security platform offering human risk management, from 2018 to 2022 and for a subsequent year as a Board member. Earlier in his career, he held leadership roles at Dealogic Lehman Brothers, NYSE Euronext, American Express, and Deloitte Consulting. Krish holds a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Jacqueline L. White

Ms. White joined our company as a Director on June 9, 2021. Ms. White has been a leader in enterprise technology software and IT consulting for the past 25 years. Ms. White has held global positions at SAP, Oracle, and Accenture, always leading diverse, high performing organizations around the world. In May 2023 Ms. White became President of i2C Inc, which operates a global payments and digital banking platform. Prior to that, Ms. White joined the Executive Management Team of Temenos AG (Six: TEMN), a company specializing in enterprise software for banks and financial services, as the President of the Americas Region in January 2021. Ms. White led the Banking & Capital Markets line of business of DXC Technology Co. (NYSE: DXC) as Senior Vice President and Practice Lead from September 2019 to January 2021. From January 2018 through September 2019, Ms. White served as the Chief Revenue Officer of Saltstack, a VM Ware Company, and from January 2015 through January 2018 as Global Senior Vice President Global FSI Consulting for SAP (NYSE: SAP). Prior to joining SAP, Ms. White held various positions with Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd., Oracle, BearingPoint and Novell. Ms. White was named by Utah Business Magazine as “Top Executives to Watch” in July 2020. Ms. White received a BA in Comparative Literature from Brigham Young University and a Leadership Certificate from Boston University.

Board & Committees

Board meetings during calendar year ended 2025

During 2025, the Board of Directors held eleven meetings as well as committee meetings, as outlined below. Each director attended all of the meetings of the Board and all of the meetings held by all committees on which such director served, except that three directors each missed one Board meeting which they were not able to attend. The Board and the Pricing Committees that were formed for the purposes of approval of the funding transactions in April, and May 2025 also approved certain actions by unanimous written consent.

Committees established by the Board

The Board of Directors has standing Audit, Compensation, and Governance Committees. Information concerning the function of each Board committee follows. 

Audit Committee

The Audit Committee is responsible for overseeing management’s implementation of effective internal accounting and financial controls, supervising matters relating to audit functions, reviewing and setting internal policies and procedures regarding audits, accounting and other financial controls, reviewing the results of our audit performed by the independent public accountants, and evaluating and selecting the independent public accountants. The Audit Committee has adopted an Audit Committee Charter which is posted on the Corporate Governance page under the tab labeled “Board Committees” on our Investor Relations website at https://investors.authid.ai. The Board has designated the Chair of the Committee as the “audit committee financial expert” as defined by the SEC. During 2025, the Audit Committee held six meetings. The Committee also approved certain actions by unanimous written consent.

Compensation Committee

The Compensation Committee determines matters pertaining to the compensation of our named executive officers and administers our stock option and incentive compensation plans. The Compensation Committee has adopted a Compensation Committee Charter which is posted on the Corporate Governance page under the tab labeled “Board Committees” on our Investor Relations website at https://investors.authid.ai. During 2025, the Compensation Committee held one meeting and also approved certain actions by unanimous written consent.

Governance Committee

The Governance Committee is responsible for considering potential Board members, nominating Directors for election to the Board, implementing the Company’s corporate governance policies, recommending compensation for the Board and for all other purposes outlined in the Governance Committee Charter, which is posted on the Corporate Governance page under the tab labeled “Board Committees” on our Investor Relations website at https://investors.authid.ai. During 2025, the Governance Committee held one meeting.

Nomination of Directors

As provided in its charter, the Governance Committee is responsible for identifying individuals qualified to become directors. The Governance Committee seeks to identify director candidates based on input provided by a number of sources including (1) the Governance Committee members, (2) our other directors, (3) our stockholders, (4) our Chief Executive Officer or Chair of the Board, and (5) third parties such as service providers. In evaluating potential candidates for director, the Governance Committee considers the entirety of each candidate’s credentials.

Qualifications for consideration as a director nominee may vary according to the particular areas of expertise being sought as a complement to the existing composition of the Board of Directors. However, at a minimum, candidates for director must possess:

Except as set forth below, during the year ended December 31, 2025, there have been no material changes to the procedures by which security holders may recommend nominees to our board of directors.

Legal Proceedings

There are currently no legal proceedings, and during the past 10 years there have been no legal proceedings, that are material to the evaluation of the ability or integrity of any of our directors.

Family Relationships

There are no family relationships among our directors and executive officers. There is no arrangement or understanding between or among our executive officers and directors pursuant to which any director or officer was or is to be selected as a director or officer.

Involvement in Certain Legal Proceedings

To our knowledge, during the last ten years, none of our directors and executive officers has:

To our knowledge, none of our directors and executive officers has at any time been subject to any proceedings:

Code of Ethics

We have adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics Policy (the “Code of Ethics”) that applies to all directors and officers, which is posted on the Corporate Governance page under the tab labeled “Board Committees” on our Investor Relations website at https://investors.authid.ai. The Code of Ethics describes the legal, ethical and regulatory standards that must be followed by the directors and officers of the Company and sets forth high standards of business conduct applicable to each director and officer. As adopted, the Code of Ethics sets forth written standards that are designed to deter wrongdoing and to promote, among other things:

Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports

Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, requires our directors and executive officers and persons who own more than 10% of the issued and outstanding shares of our common stock to file reports of initial ownership of common stock and other equity securities and subsequent changes in that ownership with the SEC. Officers, directors and greater than ten percent stockholders are required by SEC regulation to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a) forms they file. To our knowledge, based solely on a review of the copies of such reports furnished to us and written representations that no other reports were required, during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 all Section 16(a) filing requirements applicable to our officers, directors and greater than 10% beneficial owners were complied with, except that three directors filed Form 3 late.

Equity Award Grant Practices

Equity awards are made by the Compensation Committee, are discretionary and are not granted to executive officers and employees at any specific time in the year. In April 2024 the Board adopted a Policy on Granting Equity Awards (“Equity Policy”). Under the Equity Policy, awards to employees shall be made on a date when the Company’s insider trading window is “open” (i.e., when the Company is not in possession of material non-public information), and which is at least three business days after the most recent release of the Company’s quarterly or annual earnings, or Form 8-K Current Report that discloses material non-public information. With respect to grants made to executive officers, and new hires who will become executive officers the Company shall not grant and/or price of stock options or other incentive securities under any securities-based compensation arrangement of the Company during the period beginning four (4) business days before and ending one (1) business day after the filing by the Company of a Form 10-Q Quarterly Report, Form 10-K Annual Report or Form 8-K Current Report that discloses material non-public information (other than a current report on Form 8–K disclosing a material new option award grant under Item 5.02(e) of that form). Grants of stock options to new hires (other than those who will become Section 16 officers), will not be subject to the same restrictions but will be made on the later of the date of approval of the grant by the Compensation Committee and the date of commencement of employment.

Annual grants of equity awards to members of the Board shall be effective within three business days after the date of the Annual Stockholders Meeting at which such Director is elected or re-elected (subject that being in an open period in accordance with the previous paragraph). For Directors appointed other than at an Annual Stockholders Meeting, initial grants of equity awards shall be effective on the date the Director is appointed (subject that being in an open period in accordance with the previous paragraph).

In each case where applicable, the exercise/grant price for an award will be equal to the closing market price of our common stock on the grant date.

Item 11. Executive Compensation

The below table sets forth information concerning all cash and non-cash compensation awarded to, earned by or paid to (i) all individuals serving as the Company’s principal executive officers or acting in a similar capacity during the last completed fiscal year, regardless of compensation level, and (ii) the Company’s two most highly compensated executive officers other than the principal executive officers serving at the end of the last completed fiscal year (collectively, the “Named Executive Officers”).

SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE

The Company also entered an Executive Retention Agreement with Mr. Daguro, pursuant to which the Company agreed to provide specified severance and bonus amounts and to accelerate the vesting on his equity awards upon termination upon a change of control or an involuntary termination, as each term is defined in the agreement. In the event of a termination upon a change of control or an involuntary termination, Mr. Daguro is entitled to receive an amount equal to 100% of his base salary, the actual bonus earned but unpaid for the previous year and any bonus that was earned but unpaid prior to the termination date. Further, upon termination upon a change of control or an involuntary termination, the Company will reimburse Mr. Daguro for the cost of continuation of health coverage for Mr. Daguro and his eligible dependents pursuant to COBRA until the earlier of 12 months following the termination date, the date Mr. Daguro and his dependents are eligible for health coverage from a new employer or the date Mr. Daguro and his eligible dependents are no longer eligible for COBRA.

Additionally, Mr. Daguro prior to being appointed as Chief Executive Officer received $2,000 for Director’s Compensation in 2023.

The Company also entered an Executive Retention Agreement with Mr. Soto, pursuant to which the Company agreed to provide specified severance and bonus amounts and to accelerate the vesting on his equity awards upon termination upon a change of control or an involuntary termination, as each term is defined in the agreement. In the event of a termination upon a change of control or an involuntary termination, Mr. Soto is entitled to receive an amount equal to 100% of his base salary.

The above references to stock option grants should be read with Note 7 of the Notes to Financial Statements – Stockholder’s Equity – Stock Option Issuances. 

On October 6, 2023, the Board adopted the Company’s Policy for the Recovery of Erroneously Awarded Compensation, in accordance with Nasdaq Rule 5608 (“Clawback Policy”). The Clawback Policy provides for the reasonably prompt recovery by the Company of Incentive Based Compensation paid to a Covered Person (an executive officer and certain other specified senior employees), to the extent erroneously awarded, following an Accounting Restatement by the Company. The Clawback Policy applies to all Incentive Based Compensation paid after the date of adoption of the Clawback Policy. (All capitalized terms in this paragraph are as defined in the Clawback Policy). The foregoing description of the Clawback Policy is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Clawback Policy which was filed as an exhibit to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2023 and is incorporated by reference herein.

Other than the 401(k) retirement plan which allows employer match of 100% of up to 3% employee 401(k) payroll contribution and 50% of 3%-5% employee 401(k) payroll contribution, the Company currently has no other retirement, pension, or profit-sharing plan covering its officers and directors. The Company provides medical benefits on a cost sharing basis and has a dental plan which is fully paid by the employees. (See “Executive Agreements” below.)

Grant of Plan-Based Awards

During the calendar year ended December 31, 2025, the following grants were made to named executive officers:

During the calendar year ended December 31, 2024, the following grants were made to named executive officers:

There were no other grants of plan-based awards or common stock options, to other named executive officers during the years ended December 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024.

Outstanding Equity Awards to Executive Officers

The following table sets forth information with respect to outstanding equity awards held by our named executive officers as of December 31, 2025.

Option Exercises and Stock Vested Table

There have been no option exercises and restricted stock vesting during the year ended December 31, 2025 by any named executive officers