BANZAI INTERNATIONAL, INC. First Quarter 2024 Financial Summary and Recent Operational Highlights
- Annual Recurring Revenue (“ARR”) for
March 2024 was$4.9 million , a 14.2% increase compared to Q4 2023, and a 5% increase year-over-year. - Revenue of
$1.1 million exceeded the operating forecast as of the previous quarter by 4%. - Net Income increased sequentially by
$1.9 million , a 30% increase from Q4 2023. - The Company added over 230 customers in April, bringing the total number of customer wins and reactivations during the first four months of 2024 to 810.
- Banzai unveiled Reach 2.0, a major milestone release of the Company’s flagship marketing product. Companies using Reach 2.0 include
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), a Fortune 500 communications and security technology company; The Economist Impact, which offers partnership solutions combining think-tank rigor, media brand creativity and global influence to catalyze growth and change in the world; andCrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), a fast-growing cloud security software company.
Banzai has agreed with Yorkville that upon repayment of
“Q1 was a strong rebuilding quarter for Banzai compared to Q4 2023. Our positive quarterly growth was driven by improvements to both our Demio product and our customer acquisition efficiency. We are excited about the transformative potential of our new Reach 2.0 product and the new customers we’ve added so far in 2024,” said
First Quarter 2024 Financial Results
Banzai believes its non-GAAP financial measure ARR is more meaningful in evaluating its performance. The Company’s management team evaluates its financial and operating results utilizing this non-GAAP measure.
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About Banzai
Banzai is a marketing technology company that provides essential marketing and sales solutions for businesses of all sizes. On a mission to help their customers achieve their mission, Banzai enables companies of all sizes to target, engage, and measure both new and existing customers more effectively. Banzai customers include Square, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Thinkific, Doodle and Active Campaign, among thousands of others. Learn more at www.banzai.io. For investors, please visit https://ir.banzai.io/.
Forward-Looking Statements
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Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of the Company’s control. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, and our actual results of operations, financial condition and liquidity and development of the industry in which the Company operates may differ materially from those made in or suggested by the forward-looking statements. Therefore, investors should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially include the Company’s ability to repay a portion of the Yorkville Promissory Notes, changes in the markets in which the Company operates, customer demand, the financial markets, economic, business and regulatory and other factors, such as the Company’s ability to execute on its strategy, its assumptions regarding available and serviceable markets, its ability to realize some or all of the expected benefits of its acquisition strategy and its ability to effectively integrate the businesses or technologies it acquires, if any. More detailed information about risk factors can be found in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q under the heading “Risk Factors,” and in other reports filed by the Company, including reports on Form 8-K. The Company does not undertake any duty to update forward-looking statements after the date they are made.
This release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities.
Contacts:
Investors
949-574-3860
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Media
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banzai@blastmedia.com
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets | ||||||||
| (Unaudited) | ||||||||
| ASSETS | ||||||||
| Current assets: | ||||||||
| Cash | $ | 1,026,932 | $ | 2,093,718 | ||||
| Accounts receivable, net of allowance for credit losses of | 34,670 | 105,049 | ||||||
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 1,073,914 | 741,155 | ||||||
| Total current assets | 2,135,516 | 2,939,922 | ||||||
| Property and equipment, net | 3,080 | 4,644 | ||||||
| 2,171,526 | 2,171,526 | |||||||
| Operating lease right-of-use assets | 90,308 | 134,013 | ||||||
| Other assets | 38,381 | 38,381 | ||||||
| Total assets | 4,438,811 | 5,288,486 | ||||||
| LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT | ||||||||
| Current liabilities: | ||||||||
| Accounts payable | 8,336,909 | 6,439,863 | ||||||
| Accrued expenses and other current liabilities | 3,862,714 | 5,194,240 | ||||||
| Convertible notes (Yorkville) | 3,064,000 | 1,766,000 | ||||||
| Convertible notes – related party | — | 2,540,091 | ||||||
| Convertible notes | 3,709,889 | 2,693,841 | ||||||
| Notes payable | 6,948,710 | 6,659,787 | ||||||
| Notes payable – related party | 3,082,650 | 2,505,137 | ||||||
| Deferred underwriting fees | 4,000,000 | 4,000,000 | ||||||
| Deferred fee | — | 500,000 | ||||||
| Warrant liability | 233,000 | 641,000 | ||||||
| Warrant liability – related party | 460,000 | 575,000 | ||||||
| Earnout liability | 37,125 | 59,399 | ||||||
| Due to related party | 67,118 | 67,118 | ||||||
| GEM commitment fee liability | — | 2,000,000 | ||||||
| Deferred revenue | 1,245,306 | 1,214,096 | ||||||
| Operating lease liabilities, current | 158,965 | 234,043 | ||||||
| Total current liabilities | 35,206,386 | 37,089,615 | ||||||
| Other long-term liabilities | 75,000 | 75,000 | ||||||
| Total liabilities | 35,281,386 | 37,164,615 | ||||||
| Stockholders' deficit: | ||||||||
| Common stock, | 2,022 | 1,602 | ||||||
| Preferred stock, | — | — | ||||||
| Additional paid-in capital | 20,421,999 | 14,888,593 | ||||||
| Accumulated deficit | (51,266,596 | ) | (46,766,324 | ) | ||||
| Total stockholders' deficit | (30,842,575 | ) | (31,876,129 | ) | ||||
| Total liabilities and stockholders' deficit | $ | 4,438,811 | $ | 5,288,486 | ||||
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations | ||||||||
| For the Three Months Ended | ||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||
| Operating income: | ||||||||
| Revenue | $ | 1,079,472 | $ | 1,177,061 | ||||
| Cost of revenue | 381,380 | 412,226 | ||||||
| Gross profit | 698,092 | 764,835 | ||||||
| Operating expenses: | ||||||||
| General and administrative expenses | 4,308,929 | 3,170,063 | ||||||
| Depreciation expense | 1,564 | 2,404 | ||||||
| Total operating expenses | 4,310,493 | 3,172,467 | ||||||
| Operating loss | (3,612,401 | ) | (2,407,632 | ) | ||||
| Other expenses (income): | ||||||||
| GEM settlement fee expense | 200,000 | — | ||||||
| Other income, net | (4,118 | ) | (62,538 | ) | ||||
| Interest income | (10 | ) | (111 | ) | ||||
| Interest expense | 451,399 | 537,878 | ||||||
| Interest expense – related party | 577,513 | 383,284 | ||||||
| Gain on extinguishment of liability | (527,980 | ) | — | |||||
| Loss on debt issuance | 171,000 | — | ||||||
| Change in fair value of warrant liability | (408,000 | ) | — | |||||
| Change in fair value of warrant liability – related party | (115,000 | ) | — | |||||
| Change in fair value of simple agreement for future equity | — | 22,861 | ||||||
| Change in fair value of simple agreement for future equity – related party | — | 303,139 | ||||||
| Change in fair value of bifurcated embedded derivative liabilities | — | 32,415 | ||||||
| Change in fair value of bifurcated embedded derivative liabilities – related party | — | 137,285 | ||||||
| Change in fair value of convertible notes | 544,000 | — | ||||||
| Total other expenses, net | 888,804 | 1,354,213 | ||||||
| Loss before income taxes | (4,501,205 | ) | (3,761,845 | ) | ||||
| Income tax (benefit) expense | (933 | ) | 3,277 | |||||
| Net loss | $ | (4,500,272 | ) | $ | (3,765,122 | ) | ||
| Net loss per share | ||||||||
| Basic and diluted | $ | (0.26 | ) | $ | (0.59 | ) | ||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding | ||||||||
| Basic and diluted | 17,355,609 | 6,382,180 | ||||||
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