Oblong, Inc. [OBLG] Filings

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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

(Mark One)


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

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023


☐			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: 001-35376

OBLONG, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Delaware		77-0312442
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

110 16th Street, Suite 1400-1024
Denver, CO		80202
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (213) 683-8863 ext. 5

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act:
Title of each class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value	OBLG	Nasdaq Capital Market

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act: None.

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ☐ No ☒

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Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐

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The aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the Registrant computed by reference to the price at which the common equity was last sold on June 30, 2023, the last business day of the Registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, was $3,002,041.

The number of shares of the Registrant’s common stock outstanding as of March 8, 2024 was 16,684,571.

OBLONG, INC.

Index


Item		Page
	PART I
1.	Business	3
1A.	Risk Factors	7
1B.	Unresolved Staff Comments	24
1C.	Cybersecurity	24
2.	Properties	25
3.	Legal Proceedings	25
4.	Mine Safety Disclosures	25

	PART II
5.	Market for Registrant’s Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities	25
6.	Reserved	26
7.	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	26
7A.	Qualitative and Quantitative Disclosures About Market Risk	33
8.	Financial Statements and Supplemental Data	33
9	Change in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure	33
9A.	Controls and Procedures	33
9B.	Other Information	34
9C.	Disclosures Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections	34

	PART III
10.	Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance	34
11.	Executive Compensation	39
12.	Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters	43
13.	Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence	44
14.	Principal Accounting Fees and Services	45

	PART IV
15.	Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules	47
16.	Signatures	51

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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This annual report on Form 10-K (this “Report”) contains statements that are considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and its rules and regulations (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and its rules and regulations (the “Exchange Act”). These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about the plans, objectives, expectations and intentions of Oblong, Inc. (“Oblong” or “we” or “us” or the “Company”). All statements other than statements of current or historical fact contained in this Report, including statements regarding Oblong’s future financial position, business strategy, budgets, projected costs and plans and objectives of management for future operations, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” and similar expressions, as they relate to Oblong, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements are based on Oblong’s current plans, and Oblong’s actual future activities and results of operations may be materially different from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the statements made. Any or all of the forward-looking statements in this Report may turn out to be inaccurate. Oblong has based these forward-looking statements largely on its current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that it believes may affect its financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs. The forward-looking statements can be affected by inaccurate assumptions or by known or unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions. There are important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements, including our plans, objectives, expectations and intentions and other factors that are discussed in “Item 1A. Risk Factors” and/or listed below. Oblong undertakes no obligation to publicly revise these forward-looking statements to reflect events occurring after the date hereof. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to Oblong or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained in this Report. Forward-looking statements in this Report include, among other things: opportunities for and benefits of potential strategic alternatives; our expectations and estimates relating to customer attrition, demand for our product offerings, sales cycles, future revenues, expenses, capital expenditures and cash flows; our ability to develop and launch new product offerings; evolution of our customer solutions and our service platforms; our ability to fund operations and continue as a going concern; expectations regarding adjustments to our cost of revenue and other operating expenses; our ability to finance investments in product development and sales and marketing; the future exercise of warrants; our ability to raise capital through sales of additional equity or debt securities and/or loans from financial institutions; our beliefs about employee relations; our beliefs about the ongoing performance and success of our Managed Service business; statements relating to market need and evolution of the industry, our solutions and our service platforms; our beliefs about the service offerings of our competitors and our ability to differentiate Oblong’s services; adequacy of our internal controls; and statements regarding our information systems and ability to prevent cybersecurity incidents. For additional information regarding known material factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from our projected results, please see “Item 1A. Risk Factors.” Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those summarized below:

•our ability to raise capital in one or more debt and/or equity offerings in order to fund operations or any growth initiatives and our ability to continue as a going concern;

•the impact of the issuance of our Series F Preferred Stock in the March 2023 private placements, conversions of our Series F Preferred Stock and sales of the underlying conversion shares;

•customer acceptance and demand for our video collaboration services and network applications;

•our ability to launch new products and offerings and to sell our solutions;

•our ability to compete effectively in the video collaboration services and network services businesses;

•the ongoing performance of our Managed Services business;

•our ability to maintain and protect our proprietary rights;

•our ability to withstand industry consolidation;

•our ability to adapt to changes in industry structure and market conditions;

•actions by our competitors, including price reductions for their competitive services;

•the quality and reliability of our products and services;

•the prices for our products and services and changes to our pricing model;

•the success of our sales and marketing approach and efforts, and our ability to grow revenue;

•customer renewal and retention rates;

•the continued impact from the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic on our revenue and results of operations;

•risks related to the concentration of our customers and the degree to which our sales, now or in the future, depend on certain large client relationships;

•increases in material, labor or other manufacturing-related costs;

•changes in our go-to-market cost structure;

•inventory management and our reliance on our supply chain;

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•our ability to attract and retain highly skilled personnel;

•our reliance on open-source software and technology;

•potential federal and state regulatory actions;

•our ability to innovate technologically, and, in particular, our ability to develop next generation Oblong technology;

•our ability to satisfy the standards for continued listing of our common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market;

•changes in our capital structure and/or stockholder mix;

•the costs, disruption, and diversion of management’s attention associated with campaigns commenced by activist investors; and

•our management’s ability to execute its plans, strategies and objectives for future operations.

RISK FACTORS SUMMARY

The following is a summary of the principal risk factors that make an investment in our company speculative or risky, all of which are further described below in the section titled “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this Report. 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.

Risks related to our business:

•Our Company experienced declines in revenue in recent fiscal years and may continue to experience further revenue decline in future periods;

•Revenue growth and increase in the market share of our current product offerings depends on successful adoption of our Mezzanine™ product offerings with our customers, which requires sufficient sales, marketing and product development funding;

•We have a history of substantial net operating losses and we may incur future net losses;

•Our business activities may require additional financing that might not be obtainable on acceptable terms, if at all, which could have a material adverse effect on its financial condition, liquidity and its ability to operate as a going concern in the future;

•If we fail to achieve broad market acceptance on a timely basis, we will not be able to compete effectively, and we will likely experience continued declines in revenue and lower gross margins;

•Product quality problems could lead to reduced revenue, gross margins, and higher net losses;

•We depend upon the development of new products and services, and enhancements to existing products and services, and if we fail to predict and respond to emerging technological trends and customer’s changing needs, our operating result may suffer;

•Changes in industry structure and market conditions could lead to charges related to discontinuances of certain of our products or businesses, asset impairments and workforce reductions or restructurings;

•The markets in which we compete are intensely competitive, which could adversely affect our achievement of revenue growth;

•We rely on a limited number of customers for a significant portion of our revenue, and the loss of any one of those customers, or several of our smaller customers, could materially harm our business;

•There is limited market awareness of our services;

•If we do not effectively compose, structure and compensate our sales team to focus on the end customers and activities that will primarily drive our growth strategy, our business will be adversely affected;

•A significant portion of our sales are through distribution channels including both System and audio visual (“AV”) integrators which have been difficult to project and, particularly volatile during the pandemic. Weakness in orders from our distribution channels may harm our operating results and financial condition;

•Inventory management relating to our sales to our two-tier distribution channel is complex, and excess inventory may harm our gross margins;

•We may experience material disconnections and/or reductions in the prices of our services and may not be able to replace the loss of revenue;

•Supply chain issues, including financial problems of contract manufacturers or component suppliers, or a shortage of adequate component supply or manufacturing capacity that increase our costs or cause a delay in our ability to fulfill orders, could have an adverse impact on our business and operating results, and our failure to estimate customer demand properly may result in excess or obsolete component supply, which could adversely affect our gross margins;

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Risks to Owning Our Common Stock

•Our stock price has fluctuated in the past, has recently been volatile and may be volatile in the future, and as a result, investors in our common stock could incur substantial losses;

•The issuance of the securities in the March 2023 private placement significantly diluted the ownership interest of the existing holders of our common stock, and the market price of our common stock has declined significantly as a result of sales of such securities into the public market by the private placement investors and subsequent investors or the perception that such sales may occur;

•Penny stock regulations may impose certain restrictions on the marketability of our securities;

•Future operating results may vary from quarter to quarter, and we may fail to meet the expectations of securities analysts and investors at any given time;

•We might need to raise additional capital by issuing securities or debt, which may cause significant dilution to our stockholders and restrict our operations, and

•We could fail to satisfy the standards to maintain our listing on a stock exchange.

PART I

Item 1. Business

Overview

We are a provider of patented multi-stream collaboration products and managed services for video collaboration and network solutions.

Mezzanine™ Product Offerings

Our flagship product is called Mezzanine™, a family of turn-key products that enable dynamic and immersive visual collaboration across multi-users, multi-screens, multi-devices, and multi-locations. Mezzanine™ allows multiple people to share, control and arrange content simultaneously, from any location, enabling all participants to see the same content in its entirety at the same time in identical formats, resulting in dramatic enhancements to both in-room and virtual videoconference presentations. Applications include video telepresence, laptop and application sharing, whiteboard sharing and slides. Spatial input allows content to be spread across screens, spanning different walls, scalable to an arbitrary number of displays and interaction with our proprietary wand device. Mezzanine™ substantially enhances day-to-day virtual meetings with technology that accelerates decision making, improves communication, and increases productivity. Mezzanine™ scales up to support the most immersive and commanding innovation centers; across to link labs, conference spaces, and situation rooms; and down for the smallest work groups. Mezzanine’s digital collaboration platform can be sold as delivered systems in various configurations for small teams to total immersion experiences. The family includes the 200 Series (two display screen), 300 Series (three screen), and 600 Series (six screen). We also sell maintenance and support contracts related to Mezzanine™.

Historically, customers have used Mezzanine™ products in traditional office and operating center environments such as conference rooms or other presentation spaces. As discussed below, sales of our Mezzanine™ products have been adversely affected by commercial response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. Like many technology companies in recent months, we will continue to monitor and manage our costs relative to demand with the goal of growing the Company’s revenue in the future. To the extent we believe new investments in product development, marketing, or sales are warranted as a result of changes in market demand, we believe additional capital will be required to fund those efforts and our ongoing operations.

Today, ideation and content collaboration are gaining growing importance in both physical and virtual meeting environments to support collective brainstorming and expedite decision making. Visualization of ideas can happen more naturally when people expand the collaborative canvas from sharing a single content stream among many participants to empowering an entire team, such as through our Mezzanine™ multi-stream solutions. While historically focused on in-room collaboration, the need for next-generation virtual collaboration solutions is on the rise, attributed to the confluence of several key trends that influence the way individuals collaborate. Key capabilities and features of Mezzanine™ include:

•Share Work With Others. Easily present work by plugging in or sharing wirelessly with the Mezzanine™ app. Share up to 10 connected devices including laptops, in-room PCs, and digital media players. Upload images and slides to present and explore content alongside live video streams.

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•Capture Ideas Instantly. Save snapshots of on-screen content to make sure good ideas don’t get lost. Annotate content in the Mezzanine™ app and share thoughts with others. Download meeting materials to reference or share after the meeting.

•Visualize Options and Outcomes. Mezzanine™ content spans multiple displays so the information needed is in sight and on hand. Share more content, see more detail, and improve visual storytelling. Arrange content for side-by-side comparisons and cross-referencing.

•Unite Distributed Teams. Connect teams and get everyone on the same page. Meeting participants share the same visual workspace so they can perform like they are in the same room. Everyone in every location can add content and steer the conversation, increasing opportunity and motivation to participate.

•Connect with Ease. Mezzanine™ works seamlessly with existing video conferencing and collaboration solutions so teams can join meetings with the tools they use every day. Integration with Cisco and Polycom systems simplify connecting rooms with voice, video, and content.

•Orchestrate Content. Place content anywhere in the room from anywhere in the room with Mezzanine™’s award-winning wands. Gestural interaction makes it easy to move and highlight content to focus the attention of the team.

We believe key drivers for demand include:

•rapid growth of cloud-based unified communications (UC) services adoption and continuously increasing collaborative intensity in workplaces;

•accelerating demand for low-cost video conferencing options such as USB conference room cameras and audio/video soundbars;

•rising appetite among end-user organizations for content sharing as well as content collaboration capabilities including ideation, annotation, illustration, and coediting;

•convergence of audio, video and content collaboration (as opposed to siloed applications and platforms) to improve employee productivity;

•significant growth in the number of huddle rooms and flexible meeting spaces worldwide;

•preference for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) screen share in meeting spaces; and

•growing number of distributed and remote workers.

Today’s knowledge workers are seeking optimal meeting spaces both in and out of the office that foster creativity, agility, innovation, and engagement. The trend towards ad-hoc and small group meetings has led to the creation of the huddle room concept, where workers can meet in a disruption-free setting. However, it is estimated that a small percentage of these spaces are truly ‘full spectrum’ collaboration enabled. Further, the penetration of stand-alone content sharing applications is significantly less than video penetration in large and huddle-sized meeting rooms. We believe as businesses continue to reopen from the COVID-19 pandemic there will be demand for higher forms of engagement that combines robust video conferencing with enhanced content sharing as users adapt to more flexible workplace alternatives. This combination focuses on allaying customer apprehension with regards to how to cost-effectively pursue an expanded collaboration strategy without replacing their existing investments.

Managed Services for Video Collaboration

We provide a range of managed services for video collaboration, from automated to orchestrated, to simplify the user experience in an effort to drive adoption of video collaboration throughout our customers’ enterprise. We deliver our services through a hybrid service platform or as a service layer on top of our customers’ video infrastructure. We provide our customers with the following services to meet their videoconferencing needs:

•Managed Videoconferencing is a “high-touch” concierge-based offering where we set up and manage customer videoconferences. Our managed videoconferencing services are offered to our customers on either a usage basis or on

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a monthly subscription. These services include call scheduling and launching, and videoconference monitoring, support and reporting.

•Remote Service Management provides an overlay to enterprise information technology (“IT”) and channel partner support organizations and provides 24/7 support and management of customer video environments. Our services are designed to align with a globally recognized set of best practices, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (“ITIL”), to standardize processes and communicate through a consistent set of terms with our customers and partners. We offer, on a monthly subscription basis, three tiers of Remote Service Management options, ranging from remote proactive automated monitoring to end-to-end management to complement the needs of IT support organizations (including 24x7 support desk, incident/problem/change management, site certifications, and service level agreements).

Managed Services for Network

We provide our customers with network solutions that ensure reliable, high-quality and secure traffic of video, data and internet. Network services are offered to our customers on a subscription basis. Our network services business carries variable costs associated with the purchasing and reselling of this connectivity. We offer our customers the following networking solutions that can be tailored to each customer’s needs:

•Cloud Connect: Video™: Allows our customers to outsource the management of their video traffic to us and provides the customer’s office locations with a secure, dedicated video network connection to the Oblong Cloud for video communications.

•Cloud Connect: Converge™: Provides customized Multiprotocol Label Switching (“MPLS”) solutions for customers who require a converged network. A converged network is an efficient network solution that combines the customer’s voice, video, data, and Internet traffic over one or more common access circuits. We fully manage and prioritize traffic to ensure that video and other business critical applications run smoothly.

•Cloud Connect: Cross Connect™: Allows the customer to leverage their existing carrier for the extension of a Layer 2 private line to our data center.

Sales and Marketing

We use a variety of marketing, sales, and support activities to generate and cultivate ongoing customer demand for our product offerings and managed services. We have limited sales and marketing resources and we currently have a small sales team. We sell globally through both direct customer sales and channel partners.

Customers

We have a diverse customer base including Fortune 1000 companies, along with small and medium enterprises across a wide range of industries including aerospace, consulting, executive search, broadcast media, legal, insurance, technology, financial services, education, healthcare, real estate, retail, construction, hospitality, and government, among others. We seek to establish and maintain long-term relationships with our customers.

Many factors influence the collaboration requirements of our customers. These include the size of the organization, number and types of technology systems, geographic location, and business applications deployed throughout the customer’s network. Our customer base is not limited to any specific industry, geography, or market segment.

A significant portion of our products and services are sold through our distribution channels, and the remainder is sold through direct sales. Our distribution channels include systems integrators, channel partners, other resellers, and distributors. Sales to these service providers have been characterized by large and sporadic purchases, in addition to longer sales cycles. Historically, we have seen fluctuations in our gross margins based on changes in the balance of our distribution channels.

Major customers are defined as direct customers or channel partners that account for more than 10% of the Company’s total consolidated revenue. For the years ended December 31, 2023, and 2022, one major customer accounted for approximately 56% and 47% of the Company’s total consolidated revenue, respectively.

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Competition

The market for communication and collaboration technology services is competitive and rapidly changing. Certain features of our current Mezzanine™ product offerings compete in the communication and collaboration technologies market with products offered by Cisco WebEx, Zoom, LogMeIn, GoToMeeting, along with bundled productivity solutions providers who offer limited content sharing capabilities such as Microsoft Teams, and Google G Suite. In the rapidly evolving “Ideation” market, certain elements of our application compete with Microsoft, Google, InFocus, Bluescape, Mersive, Barco, Nureva and Prysm.

With respect to our managed services for video collaboration, we primarily compete with managed services companies, videoconferencing equipment resellers and telecommunication providers, including BT Conferencing, AT&T, Verizon, LogMeIn, Yorktel, ConvergeOne, and AVI-SPL. We also compete with companies that offer hosted videoconference bridging solutions, including, Vidyo and Zoom. Lastly, the technology and software providers, including Cisco, LifeSize, Microsoft, and Polycom, are delivering competitive cloud-based videoconferencing and calling services. With the technology advancements over the past few years, including browser-based and mobile video, the options for video collaboration solutions and services are greater than ever before. With respect to our managed services for network, we primarily compete with telecommunications carriers, including British Telecom, AT&T, Verizon and Telus. Our competitors offer services similar to ours both on a bundled and unbundled basis, creating a highly competitive environment with pressure on pricing of such services. Revenue attributable to our managed services described above has declined in recent years primarily due to loss of customers to competition. We expect this trend to continue in the future for our managed services business.

Intellectual Property

The core technology platform for Mezzanine™ is called g-speak. It enables applications to be developed that run across multiple screens and multiple devices. Our customers use the platform to solve big data problems, to collaborate more effectively, and to go from viewing pixels on a single screen to interacting with pixels on every screen.

Videoconferencing has traditionally presented challenges for the user by presenting a complex maze of systems and networks that must be navigated and closely managed. Although most of the business-quality video systems today are “standards-based,” there are inherent interoperability problems between different vendors’ video equipment, resulting in communication islands. Our suite of managed services for video collaboration can be accessed and utilized by customers regardless of their technology or network. Customers who purchase a Cisco, Polycom, Avaya, or LifeSize (Logitech) system, or use certain other third-party video communications software such as Microsoft, WebEx or WebRTC, may all take advantage of our services regardless of their choice of network. Our services support all standard video signaling protocols, including SIP, H.323 and Integrated Services Digital Network (“ISDN”) using infrastructure from a variety of manufacturers.

Research and Development

The Company incurred research and development expenses during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 of $0.02 million and $1.7 million, respectively, related to the development of features and enhancements to our Mezzanine™ product offerings. During late 2022, we ceased the majority of R&D activities as a cost savings measure.

Employees

As of December 31, 2023, we had 21 total employees including 17 full-time employees. Our human capital resources objectives include, as applicable, identifying, recruiting, retaining, incentivizing and integrating our existing and new employees, advisors and consultants. Our compensation program is designed to attract, retain, and motivate highly qualified employees and executives and is comprised of a mix of competitive base salary, bonus and equity compensation awards, as well as other employee benefits. Our employees are not covered by a collective bargaining agreement, and we consider our relations with our employees to be good. We are committed to diversity and inclusion as well as equitable pay within our workforce. In addition, the health and safety of our employees, customers and communities are of primary concern to us.

Strategy

In recent years, our Company has faced significant challenges, leading to declining revenues for both our Mezzanine™ product offerings and our Managed Services. These setbacks have prompted us to undertake a comprehensive review of our strategic direction with the aim of enhancing shareholder value through various means.

Our exploration of strategic alternatives is diverse, encompassing the consideration of a range of transformative actions. These include the possibility of a business combination, where we might merge with or be acquired by another company; a

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reverse merger, where a private company merges with us to become public without going through the traditional initial public offering process; or outright sale of the company. Each option is being carefully evaluated to ensure it aligns with our overarching goal of sustainable growth and value creation.

Our strategy for growth is twofold: (i) we aim to grow organically by expanding our market presence and increasing adoption of our products and services, and (ii) we are actively seeking inorganic growth opportunities through strategic partnerships or acquisitions. Specifically, we are interested in early-stage technology companies that are not just innovating but have also developed minimum viable products (MVPs) that have gained some measure of market acceptance. These companies may complement our existing offerings but, could also open new avenues for expansion by tapping into significant market opportunities.

In our quest to find the right partners or acquisition targets, we are particularly focused on ventures that have demonstrated their ability to innovate and capture early-stage interest of their target markets, indicating a clear path to scalability and a substantial market presence.

However, it's important to note that while we are committed to this strategic review process, there is no guaranteed outcome. The process of identifying and executing on the right strategic alternative, whether it be a merger, sale, or business combination, is complex and uncertain. We want our shareholders to understand that, despite our best efforts, there is no assurance that this strategic review will culminate in a definitive transaction involving the Company. Our priority remains clear: to explore every avenue that could potentially enhance the value we deliver to our shareholders and ensure the long-term success of our Company.

Corporate History

Oblong, Inc. was formed as a Delaware corporation in May 2000. Prior to March 6, 2020, Oblong, Inc. was named Glowpoint, Inc. (“Glowpoint”). On October 1, 2019, the Company closed an acquisition of all of the outstanding equity interests of Oblong Industries, Inc., a privately held Delaware corporation founded in 2006 (“Oblong Industries”), pursuant to the terms of an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended, the “Merger Agreement”). Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, among other things, Oblong Industries became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Merger”). On March 6, 2020, Glowpoint changed its name to Oblong, Inc.

Available Information

We are subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act. The Exchange Act requires us to file periodic reports, proxy statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The SEC maintains an Internet site at http://www.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information that we file electronically with the SEC.

In addition, we make available, free of charge, on our Internet website, our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to these reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file this material with, or furnish it to, the SEC. You may review these documents on our website at www.oblong.com by accessing the investor relations section. Our website and the information contained on or connected to our website is not incorporated by reference herein, and our web address is included as an inactive textual reference only.

Item 1A. Risk Factors

Our business faces numerous risks, including those set forth below and those described elsewhere in this Report or in our other filings with the SEC. The risks described below are not the only risks that we face, nor are they necessarily listed in order of significance. Other risks and uncertainties may also affect our business. Any of these risks may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flow. When making an investment decision with respect to our common stock, you should also refer to the other information contained or incorporated by reference in this Report, including our Consolidated Financial Statements and the related notes.

Risks Related to Our Business

Our Company experienced declines in revenue in recent fiscal years and may continue to experience further revenue decline in future periods. In recent fiscal years, our Company has faced a troubling trend of decreasing revenue, a situation that may not only persist but potentially worsen in the future. Specifically, our Managed Services revenue has suffered due to a

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significant loss of customers and a decrease in demand for our offerings. This downturn can be attributed to the fiercely competitive landscape of our industry, where we face intense pressure to lower prices to remain competitive.

Similarly, our Mezzanine™ product offerings, designed for use in conventional settings like conference rooms and operational centers, have also experienced a marked decrease in revenue. This decline is largely a consequence of the commercial reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic and its prolonged effects. We believe the pandemic has fundamentally altered the way businesses consider the use of physical office spaces and, consequently, the demand for technologies that enable in-person collaboration within these spaces. Our analysis indicates that the reduced demand for our Mezzanine™ products, particularly in the aftermath of COVID-19, reflects a broader reassessment among our customers regarding the necessity and investment in collaboration solutions tailored for traditional office environments.

Should this trend of reevaluation and reduced demand continue, it poses a significant risk of further revenue decline for our Company. This situation highlights the critical need for our Company to adapt strategically, recognizing the shifting dynamics of workplace configurations and the evolving needs of our customers in the post-pandemic era.

Revenue growth and increase in the market share of our current product offerings depends on successful adoption of our Mezzanine™ product offerings with our channel partners, which requires sufficient sales, marketing, and product development funding. Our goal is to grow revenue from an increase in adoption of our product offerings. If we cannot successfully gain adoption of our Mezzanine™ product offerings through direct sales or our channel partners, we may not be able to grow revenue and/or increase the market share of our products. We cannot assure you that we will have sufficient funds available to invest in sales and marketing and continued product development in order to achieve revenue growth.

We have a history of substantial net operating losses and we may incur future net losses. We reported substantial net losses in recent years. We may not be able to achieve revenue growth or profitability or generate positive cash flow on a quarterly or annual basis in the future. If we do not achieve profitability in the future, the value of our common stock may be adversely impacted, and we could have difficulty obtaining capital to continue our operations.

Our business activities will require additional financing that might not be obtainable on acceptable terms, if at all, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, liquidity and our ability to operate as a going concern in the future. The Consolidated Financial Statements in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. We have experienced declines in revenue in recent fiscal years and we have incurred net losses.

Our capital requirements in the future will continue to depend on numerous factors, including the timing and amount of revenue, customer renewal rates and the timing of collection of outstanding accounts receivable, in each case particularly as it relates to our major customers, the expense to deliver services, expense for sales and marketing, expense for research and development, capital expenditures, and the cost involved in protecting intellectual property rights. We believe that our existing cash and cash equivalents will be sufficient to fund our operations and meet our working capital requirements for at least the next 12 months from the filing date of this Report with the SEC. We believe additional capital will be required, in the long-term, to fund operations and provide growth capital including potential strategic alternatives and investments in technology, product development and sales and marketing. To access capital to fund operations or provide growth capital, we will need to raise capital in one or more debt and/or equity offerings. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in raising necessary capital or that any such offering will be on terms acceptable to the Company. If we are unable to raise additional capital that may be needed on terms acceptable to us, it could have a material adverse effect on the Company.

If we fail to achieve broad market acceptance on a timely basis, we will not be able to compete effectively, and we will likely experience continued declines in revenue and lower gross margins. We operate in a highly competitive, quickly changing environment, and our future success depends on our ability to develop or acquire, and introduce, new products that achieve broad market acceptance. Our future success will depend in large part upon our ability to identify demand trends in the markets in which we operate, and to quickly develop or acquire, and build and sell products that satisfy these demands in a cost-effective manner. In order to differentiate our products from our competitors’ products, we must increase our focus and capital investment in research and development. If our products do not achieve widespread market acceptance, or if we are unsuccessful in capitalizing on market opportunities, our future growth may be slowed and our financial results could be harmed. Also, as the mix of our business increasingly includes new products and services that require additional investment, this shift may adversely impact our margins, at least in the near-term. Successfully predicting demand trends is difficult, and it is very difficult to predict the effect that introducing a new product will have on existing product sales. We will also need to respond effectively to new product announcements by our competitors by quickly introducing competitive products.

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In addition, we may not be able to successfully manage integration of any new product lines with our existing products. Selling new product lines in new markets will require our management to explore different strategies in order to be successful. We may be unsuccessful in launching a new product line in new markets that requires management of new suppliers, potential new customers and new business models. Our management may not have the experience of selling in these new markets and we may not be able to grow our business as planned. If we are unable to effectively and successfully further develop these new product lines, we may not be able to achieve our desired sales targets and our gross margins may be adversely affected.

We may experience delays and quality issues in releasing new products, which could result in lower quarterly revenue than expected. In addition, we may experience product introductions that fall short of our projected rates of market adoption. Any future delays in product development and introduction, or product introductions that do not meet broad market acceptance, or unsuccessful launches of new product lines could result in:

•loss of or delay in revenue and loss of market share;

•negative publicity and damage to our reputation and brand;

•a decline in the average selling price of our products; and

•adverse reactions in our sales channels.

Additionally, our level of product gross margins could decline in future periods due to adverse impacts from other factors including:

•Changes in customer, geographic or product mix, including mix of configurations within each product group;

•Introduction of new products, including products with price-performance advantages, and new business models including the transformation of our business to deliver more software and subscription offerings;

•Our ability to reduce production costs;

•Entry into new markets or growth in lower margin markets, including markets with different pricing and cost structures, through acquisitions or internal development;

•Sales discounts;

•Increases in material, labor or other manufacturing-related costs, which could be significant especially during periods of supply constraints such as those impacting the market for memory components;

•Excess inventory, inventory holding charges and obsolescence charges;

•Changes in shipment volume;

•The timing of revenue recognition and revenue deferrals;

•Increased cost (including those caused by tariffs), loss of cost savings or dilution of savings due to changes in component pricing or charges incurred due to inventory holding periods if parts ordering does not correctly anticipate product demand or if the financial health of either contract manufacturers or suppliers deteriorates;

•Lower than expected benefits from value engineering;

•Increased price competition;

•Changes in distribution channels;

•Increased warranty or royalty costs;

•Increased amortization of purchased intangible assets; and

•Our success in executing on our strategy and operating plans.

If we cannot successfully introduce new product lines, either through rapid innovation or acquisition of new products or product lines, we may not be able to maintain or increase the market share of our products. In addition, if we are unable to successfully introduce or acquire new products with higher gross margins, or if we are unable to improve the margins on our existing product lines, our revenue and overall gross margin will likely decline.

Product quality problems could lead to reduced revenue, gross margins and higher net losses. We produce highly complex products that incorporate leading-edge technology, including both hardware and software. Software typically contains bugs that can unexpectedly interfere with expected operations. There can be no assurance that our pre-shipment testing programs will be adequate to detect all defects, either ones in individual products or ones that could affect numerous shipments, which might interfere with customer satisfaction, reduce sales opportunities or affect gross margins. From time to time, we have had to replace certain components and provide remediation in response to the discovery of defects or bugs in products that we had shipped. There can be no assurance that such remediation, depending on the product involved, would not have a material impact. An inability to cure a product defect could result in the failure of a product line, temporary or permanent withdrawal from a product or market, damage to our reputation, inventory costs or product reengineering expenses, any of which could have a material impact on our revenue, margins and net loss.

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We depend upon the development of new products and services, and enhancements to existing products and services, and if we fail to predict and respond to emerging technological trends and customer’s changing needs, our operating results may suffer. The markets for our products and services are characterized by rapidly changing technology, evolving industry standards and new product and service introductions. Our operating results depend on our ability to develop and introduce new products and services into existing and emerging markets and to reduce the production costs of existing products. If customers do not purchase and/or renew our offerings, our business could be harmed. The process of developing new technology related to market transitions—such as collaboration, digital transformation, and cloud—is complex and uncertain, and if we fail to accurately predict customers’ changing needs and emerging technological trends our business could be harmed. We must commit significant resources to developing new products and services before knowing whether our investments will result in products and services the market will accept. Our business could be harmed if we fail to develop, or fail to develop in a timely fashion, offerings to address other market transitions, or if the offerings addressing these other transitions that ultimately succeed are based on technology, or an approach to technology, different from ours. In addition, our business could be adversely affected in periods surrounding our new product introductions if customers delay purchasing decisions to qualify or otherwise evaluate new product offerings.

Furthermore, we may not execute successfully on our vision or strategy because of challenges with regard to product planning and timing, technical hurdles that we fail to overcome in a timely fashion, or a lack of appropriate resources, such as those that led to us ceasing the majority of research and development activities during late 2022 as a cost savings measure, and significant capital could be required to resume research and development activities. This could result in competitors, some of which may also be our partners, providing those solutions before we do and loss of market share, revenue and earnings. In addition, the growth in demand for technology delivered as a service enables new competitors to enter the market. The success of new products and services depends on several factors, including proper new product and service definition, component costs, timely completion and introduction of these products and services, differentiation of new products and services from those of our competitors, and market acceptance of these products and services. There can be no assurance that we will successfully identify new product and services opportunities, develop and bring new products and services to market in a timely manner, or achieve market acceptance of our products and services or that products, services and technologies developed by others will not render our products, services or technologies obsolete or noncompetitive.

Our success depends on our ability to recruit and retain adequate engineering talent. The market for our products and services are characterized by rapidly changing technology. The pressure to innovate and stay ahead of our competitors requires an investment in talent. Specifically, competing successfully in this market depends on our ability to recruit and retain adequate engineering talent. Because of the competitive nature of this industry, this can prove a challenge. Failure to recruit and retain adequate talent could negatively impact our ability to keep up with the rapidly changing technology.

Our success is highly dependent on the evolution of our overall market and on general economic conditions. The market for collaboration technology and services is evolving rapidly. Although certain industry analysts project significant growth for this market, their projections may not be realized. Our future growth depends on broad acceptance and adoption of collaboration technologies and services. In addition, in the event we develop new solutions designed to address new market demands, such as our Mezzanine™ product offerings, sales of our solutions will in part depend on capturing new spending in these markets. There can be no assurance that this market will grow, that our offerings will be adopted or that businesses will purchase our collaboration technologies and services. If we are unable to react quickly to changes in the market, if the market fails to develop or develops more slowly than expected, or if our services do not achieve market acceptance, then we are unlikely to achieve profitability. Additionally, adverse economic conditions may cause a decline in business and consumer spending which could adversely affect our business and financial performance.

Changes in industry structure and market conditions could lead to charges related to discontinuances of certain of our products or businesses, asset impairments, and workforce reductions or restructurings. In response to changes in industry and market conditions, we may be required to strategically realign our resources and to consider restructuring, disposing of or otherwise exiting businesses. Any resource realignment, or decision to limit investment in or dispose of or otherwise exit businesses, may result in the recording of special charges, such as inventory and technology-related write-offs, workforce reduction or restructuring costs, charges relating to consolidation of excess facilities, or claims from third parties who were resellers or users of discontinued products. Our estimates with respect to the useful life or ultimate recoverability of our carrying basis of assets, could change as a result of such assessments and decisions. Although in certain instances our supply agreements allow us the option to cancel, reschedule and adjust our requirements based on our business needs prior to firm orders being placed, our loss contingencies may include liabilities for contracts that we cannot cancel with contract manufacturers and suppliers.

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We may be unable to realize intended efficiencies and benefits from our ongoing cost-savings initiatives, and which may adversely affect our results of operations, financial condition, or our business. To operate more efficiently and control costs, we have undertaken cost-savings initiatives, which have included a cessation of R&D activities, workforce reductions and other cost reduction initiatives. If we do not successfully manage our current cost-savings activities, our expected efficiencies, benefits and cost savings might be delayed or not realized, and our operations and business could be disrupted. Furthermore, a disruption to our operations or business may cause employee morale and productivity to suffer and may result in unwanted employee attrition. Such disruptions require substantial management time and attention and may divert management from other important work or result in a failure to meet operational targets. Moreover, we could make changes to, or experience delays in executing, any cost-savings initiatives, any of which could cause further disruption and additional unanticipated expense.

If we were deemed to be an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), applicable restrictions could make it impractical for us to continue our business as contemplated and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations. Under Sections 3(a)(1)(A) and (C) of the 1940 Act, a company generally will be deemed to be an “investment company” for purposes of the 1940 Act if (1) it is, or holds itself out as being, engaged primarily, or proposes to engage primarily, in the business of investing, reinvesting or trading in securities or (2) it engages, or proposes to engage, in the business of investing, reinvesting, owning, holding or trading in securities and it owns or proposes to acquire investment securities having a value exceeding 40% of the value of its total assets (exclusive of U.S. government securities and cash items) on an unconsolidated basis. We do not currently believe that we are an “investment company,” as such term is defined in either of those sections of the 1940 Act. Although we are exploring strategic alternatives, we intend to conduct our operations so that we will not be deemed an investment company. However, if we were to be deemed an investment company, restrictions imposed by the 1940 Act, including limitations on our capital structure and our ability to transact with affiliates, could make it impractical for us to continue our business as contemplated and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Any future disposition of assets and business could have material and adverse effect on business, financial conditions, and operations, if not consummated in a timely manner. As part of our corporate strategy, our management considers and evaluates opportunities involving dispositions of assets and business. Such transactions may expose us to unknown or unforeseeable challenges resulting in disruption of business operations, loss of key personnel and ongoing tax benefits treatment, failure to obtain necessary statutory and regulatory approvals, provide ongoing indemnity, and compliance with post-closing obligations, which may affect or prevent us from consummating the transactions, and have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial conditions, and operations.

The markets in which we compete are intensely competitive, which could adversely affect our achievement of revenue growth. The markets in which we compete are characterized by rapid change, converging technologies and a migration to collaboration solutions that offer relative advantages. These market factors represent a competitive threat to us. We compete with numerous vendors in each product category. The overall number of our competitors providing niche product solutions may increase. Also, the identity and composition of competitors may change as we increase our activity in newer product areas, and in key priority and growth areas. In addition, the growth in demand for technology delivered as a service enables new competitors to enter the market.

The collaboration industry is highly competitive and includes large, well-financed participants. Some of our competitors compete across many of our product lines, while others are primarily focused in a specific product area. In addition, many of our competitor organizations have substantially greater financial and other resources, including technical and engineering resources, than we do, furnish some of the same services provided by us, and have established relationships with major corporate customers that have policies of purchasing directly from them. Our competitors offer services similar both on a bundled and unbundled basis, creating a highly competitive environment with pressure on pricing of such services. Barriers to entry are relatively low, and new ventures to create products that do or could compete with our products are regularly formed. We believe that as the demand for collaboration technologies continues to increase, additional competitors, many of which may have greater resources than us, will continue to enter this market.

The principal competitive factors in the markets in which we presently compete and may compete in the future include the ability to sell successful business outcomes; product performance; price; the ability to introduce new products, including providing continuous new customer value and products with price-performance advantages; the ability to reduce production costs; the ability to provide value-added features such as security, reliability and investment protection; conformance to standards; market presence; the ability to provide financing; and disruptive technology shifts and new business models.

Industry consolidation may lead to increased competition and may harm our operating results. There is a continuing trend toward industry consolidation in our markets. We expect this trend to continue as companies attempt to strengthen or hold their market positions in an evolving industry and as companies are acquired or are unable to continue operations. Companies

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that are strategic alliance partners in some areas of our business may acquire or form alliances with our competitors, thereby reducing their business with us. We believe that industry consolidation may result in stronger competitors that are better able to compete as sole-source vendors for customers. This could lead to more variability in our operating results and could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition. Furthermore, particularly in the service provider market, rapid consolidation will lead to fewer customers, with the effect that loss of a major customer could have a material impact on results.

We rely on a limited number of customers for a significant portion of our revenue, and the loss of any one of those customers, or several of our smaller customers, could materially harm our business. A significant portion of our revenue is generated from a limited number of customers. For the year ended December 31, 2023, one major customer accounted for 56% of the Company’s total consolidated revenue. The composition of our significant customers will vary from period-to-period, and we expect that most of our revenue will continue, for the foreseeable future, to come from a relatively small number of customers. Consequently, our financial results may fluctuate significantly from period-to-period based on the actions of one or more significant customers. A customer may take actions that affect the Company for reasons that we cannot anticipate or control, such as reasons related to the customer’s financial condition, changes in the customer’s business strategy or operations, changes in technology and the introduction of alternative competing products, or as the result of the perceived quality or cost-effectiveness of our products. Our agreements with these customers may be canceled if we materially breach the agreement or for other reasons outside of our control such as insolvency or financial hardship that may result in a customer filing for bankruptcy court protection against unsecured creditors. If our customers were to experience losses due to a failure of a depository institution to return their deposits, it could expose us to an increased risk of nonpayment under our contracts with them. In addition, our customers may seek to renegotiate the terms of current agreements or renewals. The loss of or a reduction in sales or anticipated sales to our most significant or several of our smaller customers could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

Any system failures or interruptions may cause loss of customers. Our success depends, in part, on the seamless, uninterrupted operation of our managed service offerings. As the complexity and volume continue to increase, we will face increasing demands and challenges in managing them. Any prolonged failure of these services or other systems or hardware that cause significant interruptions to our operations could seriously damage our reputation and result in customer attrition and financial loss.

There is limited market awareness of our services. Our future success will be dependent in significant part on our ability to generate demand for our collaboration technologies and services. To this end, our direct marketing and indirect sales operations must increase market awareness of our service offerings to generate increased revenue. We have limited sales and marketing resources. Our products and services require a sophisticated sales effort targeted at the senior management of our prospective customers. If we were to hire new employees in sales and marketing, those employees will require training and take time to achieve full productivity. We cannot be certain that our new hires will become as productive as necessary or that we will be able to hire enough qualified individuals or retain existing employees in the future. We cannot be certain that we will be successful in our efforts to market and sell our products and services, and, if we are not successful in building market awareness and generating increased sales, future results of operations will be adversely affected.

If we do not effectively compose, structure, and compensate our sales force to focus on the end customers and activities that will primarily drive our growth strategy, our business will be adversely affected. As indicated above, our growth is dependent in large part on the success of our sales team and in particular our ability to structure our sales organization and sales compensation in a way that aligns with our growth strategy. As part of our efforts to appropriately structure and compensate our sales team such that their incentives are properly aligned with our growth strategy, we have made changes to our sales processes, sales segmentation and leadership structures for our sales teams and may need to make additional changes in the future. Such changes may take longer than anticipated to successfully implement, and we may not be able to realize the full benefits thereof, which may have a material adverse impact on our sales productivity as well as our business and operational results generally. In particular, as indicated above, our growth continues to be substantially dependent on our ability to increase our sales to large enterprises, particularly when those sales result in large orders for our solutions. Competition for sales employees who have the knowledge and experience necessary to effectively penetrate major enterprise accounts is fierce, and we may not be successful in hiring such employees, or hiring them on the timelines we anticipate, which will negatively impact our ability to target and penetrate major enterprise accounts. In addition, we anticipate that the sales cycles associated with major accounts will be longer than our traditional sales cycles, which will increase the time it will take our sales managers to become fully productive. In addition, as our organization continues to focus on major accounts and large deals, the productivity of our traditional sales teams may be impacted.

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Our ability to sell our solutions is dependent in part on ease of use and the quality of our technical support, and any failure to offer high-quality technical support would harm our business, operating results, and financial condition. Once our solutions are deployed, our end customers depend on our support organization to resolve any technical issues relating to our solutions. Furthermore, because of the emerging nature of our solutions, our support organization often provides support for and troubleshoots issues for products of other vendors running on our solutions, even if the issue is unrelated to our solutions. There is no assurance that we can solve issues unrelated to our solutions, or that vendors whose products run on our solutions will not challenge our provision of technical assistance to their products. Our ability to provide effective support is largely dependent on our ability to attract, train and retain personnel who are not only qualified to support our solutions, but also well versed in some of the primary applications and hypervisors that our end customers run on our solutions. Furthermore, in the event we expand our operations internationally, our support organization will face additional challenges, including those associated with delivering support, training, and documentation in languages other than English. In addition, in the event we expand our product portfolio to include additional solutions our ability to provide high-quality support will become more difficult and will involve more complexity. Any failure to maintain high-quality installation and technical support, or a market perception that we do not maintain high-quality support, could harm our reputation and brand, adversely affect our ability to sell our solutions to existing and prospective end customers, and could harm our business, operating results, and financial condition.

We rely on third-party software that may be difficult to replace or may not perform adequately. We integrate third-party licensed software components into our technology infrastructure in order to provide our services. This software may not continue to be available on commercially reasonable terms or pricing or may fail to continue to be updated to remain competitive. The loss of the right to use this third-party software may increase our expenses or impact the provisioning of our services. The failure of this third-party software could materially impact the performance of our services and may cause material harm to our business or results of operations.

We depend upon our network providers and facilities infrastructure. Our success depends upon our ability to implement, expand, and adapt our network infrastructure and support services to accommodate an increasing amount of video traffic and evolving customer requirements at an acceptable cost. This has required and will continue to require that we enter into agreements with providers of infrastructure capacity, equipment, facilities, and support services on an ongoing basis. We cannot ensure that any of these agreements can be obtained on satisfactory terms and conditions. We also anticipate that future expansions and adaptations of our network infrastructure facilities may be necessary in order to respond to growth in the number of customers served.

A significant portion of our sales are through distribution channels including both system integrators and channel partners (collectively the “Service Providers”) which have been difficult to project and, particularly volatile during the pandemic. Weakness in orders from our distribution channels may harm our operating results and financial condition. Sales to the Service Providers have been characterized by large and sporadic purchases, in addition to longer sales cycles. Product orders by the Service Providers decreased during 2022 and 2023 and at various times in the past we have experienced significant weakness in product orders from Service Providers. Product orders from the Service Providers could continue to decline and, as has been the case in the past, such weakness could persist over extended periods of time given fluctuating market conditions. Sales activity in this industry depends upon the stage of completion of expanding network infrastructures; the availability of funding; and the extent to which service providers are affected by regulatory, economic, and business conditions in the country of operations. Weakness in orders from this industry, including as a result of any slowdown in capital expenditures by service providers (which may be more prevalent during a global economic downturn, or periods of economic, political or regulatory uncertainty), could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition. Such slowdowns may continue or recur in future periods. Orders from this industry could decline for many reasons other than the competitiveness of our products and services within their respective markets. For example, in the past, many of our Service Providers’ customers have been materially and adversely affected by slowdowns in the general economy, by overcapacity, by changes in the Service Providers’ market, by regulatory developments, and by constraints on capital availability, resulting in business failures and substantial reductions in spending and expansion plans. These conditions have materially harmed our business and operating results in the past and could affect our business and operating results in any future period. Finally, our Service Providers’ customers typically have longer implementation cycles; require a broader range of services, including design services; demand that vendors take on a larger share of risks; often require acceptance provisions, which can lead to a delay in revenue recognition; and expect financing from vendors. All these factors can add further risk to business conducted with Service Providers.

Disruption of or changes in our distribution model could harm our sales and margins. If we fail to manage distribution of our products and services properly, or if our Service Providers’ financial condition or operations weaken, our revenue and gross margins could be adversely affected. A significant portion of our products and services are sold through our distribution channels, and the remainder is sold through direct sales. Our distribution channels include systems integrators, channel partners, other resellers, and distributors. Systems integrators and channel partners typically sell directly to end users and often provide

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system installation, technical support, professional services, and other support services in addition to network equipment sales. Systems integrators also typically integrate our products into an overall solution, and a number of service providers are also systems integrators. Distributors stock inventory and typically sell to systems integrators, channel partners, and other resellers. We refer to sales through distributors as two-tier system of sales to the end customer. If sales through indirect channels increase, this may lead to greater difficulty in forecasting the mix of our products and, to a degree, the timing of orders from our customers.

Historically, we have seen fluctuations in our gross margins based on changes in the balance of our distribution channels. There can be no assurance that changes in the balance of our distribution model in future periods would not have an adverse effect on our gross margins and profitability. Some factors could result in disruption of or changes in our distribution model, which could harm our sales and margins, including the following: competition with some of our Service Providers, including through our direct sales, which may lead these channel partners to use other suppliers that do not directly sell their own products or otherwise compete with them; some of our Service Providers may demand that we absorb a greater share of the risks that their customers may ask them to bear; some of our Service Providers may have insufficient financial resources and may not be able to withstand changes and challenges in business conditions; and revenue from indirect sales could suffer if our distributors’ financial condition or operations weaken. In addition, we depend on our Service Providers globally to comply with applicable regulatory requirements. To the extent that they fail to do so, that could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition.

Inventory management relating to our sales to our two-tier distribution channel is complex, and excess inventory may harm our gross margins. We must manage inventory relating to sales to our distributors effectively, because inventory held by them could affect our results of operations. Our distributors may increase orders during periods of product shortages, cancel orders if their inventory is too high, or delay orders in anticipation of new products. They also may adjust their orders in response to the supply of our products and the products of our competitors that are available to them, and in response to seasonal fluctuations in end-user demand. Inventory management remains an area of focus as we balance the need to maintain strategic inventory levels to ensure competitive lead times against the risk of inventory obsolescence because of rapidly changing technology and customer requirements. When facing component supply-related challenges, we have increased our efforts in procuring components in order to meet customer expectations. If we ultimately determine that we have excess inventory, we may have to reduce our prices and write down inventory, which in turn could result in lower gross margins.

We may experience material disconnections and/or reductions in the prices of our services and may not be able to replace the loss of revenues. Historically, we have experienced both significant disconnections of services and also reductions in the prices of our services. We endeavor to obtain long-term commitments from new customers, as well as expand our relationships with current customers. The disconnection of services by our significant customers or by several of our smaller customers could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations. Service contract durations and termination liabilities are defined within the terms and conditions of the Company’s agreements with our customers. Termination of services in our existing agreements typically require a minimum of 30 days’ notice and are subject to early termination penalties equal to the amount of accrued and unpaid charges including the remaining term length multiplied by any fixed monthly fees. The standard form of service agreement with us includes an auto-renewal clause at the end of each term if the customer does not choose to terminate service at that time. Certain customers and partners negotiate master agreements with custom termination liabilities that differ from our standard form of service agreement.

We are exposed to the credit and other counterparty risk of our customers in the ordinary course of our business. Our customers have varying degrees of creditworthiness, and we may not always be able to fully anticipate or detect deterioration in their creditworthiness and overall financial condition, which could expose us to an increased risk of nonpayment under our contracts with them. In the event that a material customer or customers default on their payment obligations to us, discontinue buying services from us or use their buying power with us to reduce its revenue, this could materially adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

Failure to retain and recruit key personnel would harm our ability to meet key objectives. We have attracted a highly skilled management team and specialized workforce. Our future success is dependent in part on our ability to attract and retain highly skilled technical, managerial, sales and marketing personnel. Competition for these personnel is intense. Our inability to hire qualified personnel on a timely basis, or the departure of key employees (including Peter Holst, the Company’s President and CEO) without a suitable replacement could materially and adversely affect our business development and therefore, our business, prospects, results of operations and financial condition. Stock incentive plans are designed to reward employees for their long-term contributions and provide incentives for them to remain with us. Volatility or lack of positive performance in our stock price or equity incentive awards, or changes to our overall compensation program, including our stock incentive program, resulting from the management of share dilution and share-based compensation expense or otherwise, may also adversely affect our ability to retain key employees. As a result of one or more of these factors, we may increase our hiring in

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geographic areas outside the United States, which could subject us to additional geopolitical and exchange rate risk. The loss of services of any of our key personnel; the inability to retain and attract qualified personnel in the future; or delays in hiring required personnel, particularly engineering and sales personnel, could make it difficult to meet key objectives, such as timely and effective product introductions. In addition, companies in our industry whose employees accept positions with competitors frequently claim that competitors have engaged in improper hiring practices. We have received these claims in the past and may receive additional claims to this effect in the future.

Supply chain issues, including financial problems of contract manufacturers or component suppliers, or a shortage of adequate component supply or manufacturing capacity that increase our costs or cause a delay in our ability to fulfill orders, could have an adverse impact on our business and operating results, and our failure to estimate customer demand properly may result in excess or obsolete component supply, which could adversely affect our gross margins. We rely on other companies to supply some components of our Mezzanine™ products and of our network infrastructure and the means to access our network. Certain products and services that we resell and certain components that we require are available only from limited sources. We could be adversely affected if such sources were to become unavailable to us on commercially reasonable terms. We cannot ensure that, on an ongoing basis, we will be able to obtain third-party services cost-effectively and on the scale and within the time frames that we require, if at all. Failure to obtain or to continue to make use of such third-party services would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations. The fact that we do not own or operate manufacturing facilities and that we are reliant on our supply chain could have an adverse impact on the supply of our products and on our business and operating results. Financial problems of either contract manufacturers or component suppliers, reservation of manufacturing capacity at our contract manufacturers by other companies, and industry consolidation occurring within one or more component supplier markets, such as the semiconductor market, in each case, could either limit supply or increase costs.

A reduction or interruption in supply; a significant increase in the price of one or more components; a failure to adequately authorize procurement of inventory by our contract manufacturers; a failure to appropriately cancel, reschedule or adjust our requirements based on our business needs; or a decrease in demand for our products could materially adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition and could materially damage customer relationships. Furthermore, as a result of binding price or purchase commitments with suppliers, we may be obligated to purchase components at prices that are higher than those available in the current market. In the event that we become committed to purchase components at prices in excess of the current market price when the components are actually used, our gross margins could decrease. We have experienced longer than normal lead times in the past 12 months. In addition, vendors may be under pressure to allocate product to certain customers for business, regulatory or political reasons, and/or demand changes in agreed pricing as a condition of supply. Although we have generally secured additional supply or taken other mitigation actions when significant disruptions have occurred, if similar situations occur in the future or if we are unsuccessful in our mitigation efforts, they could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, and financial condition.

Our growth and ability to meet customer demands depend in part on our ability to obtain timely deliveries of parts from our suppliers and contract manufacturers. We have experienced component shortages in the past, including shortages caused by manufacturing process issues, that have affected our operations. We may in the future experience a shortage of certain component parts as a result of our own manufacturing issues, manufacturing issues at our suppliers or contract manufacturers, capacity problems experienced by our suppliers or contract manufacturers including capacity or cost problems resulting from industry consolidation, or strong demand for those parts. Growth in the economy is likely to create greater pressures on us and our suppliers to accurately project overall component demand and component demands within specific product categories and to establish optimal component levels and manufacturing capacity, especially for labor-intensive components, components for which we purchase a substantial portion of the supply, or the re-ramping of manufacturing capacity for highly complex products. During periods of shortages or delays the price of components may increase, or the components may not be available at all, and we may also encounter shortages if we do not accurately anticipate our needs. We may not be able to secure enough components at reasonable prices or of acceptable quality to build new products in a timely manner in the quantities or configurations needed. Accordingly, our revenue and gross margins could suffer until other sources can be developed.

Our operating results would also be adversely affected if, anticipating greater demand than actually develops, we commit to the purchase of more components than we need, which is more likely to occur in a period of demand uncertainties such as we are currently experiencing. There can be no assurance that we will not encounter these problems in the future. Although in many cases we use standard parts and components for our products, certain components are presently available only from a single source or limited sources, and a global economic downturn and related market uncertainty could negatively impact the availability of components from one or more of these sources, especially during times such as we have recently seen when there are supplier constraints based on labor and other actions taken during economic downturns. We may not be able to diversify sources in a timely manner, which could harm our ability to deliver products to customers and seriously impact present and future sales.

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We have made and may continue to make acquisitions that could disrupt our operations and harm our operating results. Our growth depends upon market growth, our ability to enhance our existing products, and our ability to introduce new products on a timely basis. We may address the need to develop new products and enhance existing products through acquisitions of other companies, product lines, technologies, and personnel. Acquisitions involve numerous risks, including the following:

•Difficulties in integrating the operations, systems, technologies, products and personnel of the acquired companies, particularly companies with large and widespread operations and/or complex products;

•Diversion of management’s attention from normal daily operations of the business and the challenges of managing larger and more widespread operations resulting from acquisitions;

•Potential difficulties in completing projects associated with in-process research and development intangibles;

•Difficulties in entering markets in which we have no or limited direct prior experience and where competitors in such markets have stronger market positions;

•Initial dependence on unfamiliar supply chains or relatively small supply partners;

•Insufficient revenue to offset increased expenses associated with acquisitions; and

•The potential loss of key employees, customers, distributors, vendors and other business partners of the companies we acquire following and continuing after announcement of acquisition plans.

Acquisitions may also cause us to:

•Issue common stock that would dilute our current shareholders’ percentage ownership;

•Use a substantial portion of our cash resources, or incur debt;

•Significantly increase our interest expense, leverage and debt service requirements if we incur additional debt to pay for an acquisition;

•Assume liabilities;

•Record goodwill and intangible assets that are subject to impairment testing on a regular basis and potential periodic impairment charges’

•Incur amortization expenses related to certain intangible assets;

•Incur tax expenses related to the effect of acquisitions on our legal structure;

•Reduce the utilization of, and the timing of utilization, of the federal and state net operating loss carryforwards;

•Incur large write-offs and restructuring and other related expenses; or

•Become subject to intellectual property or other litigation.

Mergers and acquisitions of high-technology companies are inherently risky and subject to many factors outside of our control, and no assurance can be given that our previous or future acquisitions will be successful and will not materially adversely affect our business, operating results, or financial condition. Failure to manage and successfully integrate acquisitions could materially harm our business and operating results. Prior acquisitions have resulted in a wide range of outcomes, from successful introduction of new products and technologies to a failure to do so. Even when an acquired company has already developed and marketed products, there can be no assurance that product enhancements will be made in a timely fashion or that pre-acquisition due diligence will have identified all possible issues that might arise with respect to such products. In addition, our effective tax rate for future periods is uncertain and could be impacted by mergers and acquisitions. Risks related to new product development also apply to acquisitions.

If our actual liability for sales and use taxes and federal regulatory fees is different from our accrued liability, it could have a material impact on our financial condition. Each state has different rules and regulations governing sales and use taxes, and these rules and regulations are subject to varying interpretations that may change over time. We review these rules and regulations periodically and, when we believe our services are subject to sales and use taxes in a particular state, we voluntarily engage state tax authorities in order to determine how to comply with their rules and regulations. Vendors of services, like us, are typically held responsible by taxing authorities for the collection and payment of any applicable sales taxes and federal fees. If one or more taxing authorities determines that taxes should have, but have not, been paid with respect to our services, we may be liable for past taxes in addition to taxes going forward. Liability for past taxes may also include very substantial interest and penalty charges. Our customer contracts provide that our customers must pay all applicable sales taxes and fees. Nevertheless, customers may be reluctant to pay back taxes and may refuse responsibility for interest or penalties associated with those taxes. If we are required to collect and pay back taxes and the associated interest and penalties, and if our customers fail or refuse to reimburse us for all or a portion of these amounts, we will have incurred unplanned expenses that may be substantial. Moreover, imposition of such taxes on our services going forward will effectively increase the cost of such services to our customers and may adversely affect our ability to retain existing customers or to gain new customers in the areas in which such taxes are imposed. We may also become subject to tax audits or similar procedures in states where we already pay

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sales and use taxes. The assessment of taxes, interest, and penalties as a result of audits, litigation, or otherwise could be materially adverse to our current and future results of operations and financial condition.

The terms of the Series F Preferred Stock could limit our growth and our ability to finance our operations, fund our capital needs, respond to changing conditions and engage in other business activities that may be in our best interests. The Certificate of Designations for the Series F Preferred Stock contains a number of affirmative and negative covenants regarding matters such as the payment of dividends, maintenance of our properties and assets, transactions with affiliates, and our ability to issue other indebtedness. No assurances can be given that we will be able to comply with the financial or other covenants contained in the Certificate of Designations. If we are unable to comply with certain terms in the Certificate of Designations:

• dividends will accrue on the Series F Preferred Stock at 20% per annum;

• the holders of the Series F Preferred Stock could foreclose against our assets; and/or

• we could be forced into bankruptcy or liquidation.

Our ability to comply with these covenants may be adversely affected by events beyond our control, and we cannot assure you that we can maintain compliance with these covenants. The financial covenants could limit our ability to make needed expenditures or otherwise conduct necessary or desirable business activities.

Risks Related to Cybersecurity and Regulations

Cyber-attacks, data incidents, malware, or an intrusion into our physical security systems may disrupt our business operations, result in the loss of critical and confidential information, harm our operating results and financial condition, and damage our reputation; and cyber-attacks or data incidents on our customers’ networks, or in cloud-based services provided by or enabled by us, could result in claims of liability against us, damage our reputation or otherwise harm our business. In the ordinary course of providing video communications services, we transmit sensitive and proprietary information of our customers. We are dependent on the proper function, availability and security of our information systems, including without limitation those systems utilized in our operations. We have undertaken measures to protect the safety and security of our inventory and our information systems and the data maintained within those systems, and on an annual basis, we test the adequacy of our security measures. Despite our implementation of security measures, there can be no assurance our safety and security measures will detect and prevent security incidents in a timely manner or otherwise prevent damage or interruption of our systems and operations or inventory theft. The products and services we sell to customers, and our servers, data centers and the cloud-based solutions on which our data, and data of our customers, suppliers and business partners are stored, are vulnerable to improper functioning, cyber-attacks, data incidents, malware, and similar disruptions from unauthorized access or tampering by malicious actors or inadvertent error. Any such event could compromise our products, services and networks or those of our customers, and the proprietary information stored on our systems or those of our customers could be improperly accessed, processed, disclosed, lost or stolen, which could subject us to liability to our customers, suppliers, business partners and others, give rise to legal/regulatory action, and could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition and may cause damage to our reputation. A security incident at any one of our physical facilities, such as that which occurred during 2022, could result in a significant loss of inventory, or increase expenses relating to the resolution and future prevention of similar thefts, any of which could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations. Efforts to limit the ability of malicious actors to disrupt the operations of the Internet or undermine our own security efforts may be costly to implement and meet with resistance, and may not be successful. Cybersecurity incidents in our customers’ networks, or in cloud-based services provided by or enabled by us, regardless of whether the incident is attributable to a vulnerability in our products or services, could result in claims of liability against us, damage our reputation, or otherwise harm our business.

Vulnerabilities and critical security defects, prioritization decisions regarding remedying vulnerabilities or security defects, failure of third-party providers to remedy vulnerabilities or security defects, or customers not deploying security releases or deciding not to upgrade products, services or solutions could result in claims of liability against us, damage our reputation or otherwise harm our business. The products and services we sell to customers inevitably contain vulnerabilities or critical security defects which have not been remedied and cannot be disclosed without compromising security. We may also make prioritization decisions in determining which vulnerabilities or security defects to fix, and the timing of these fixes, which could result in an exploit that compromises security. Customers also need to test security releases before they can be deployed which can delay implementation. In addition, we rely on third-party providers of software and cloud-based service, and we cannot control the rate at which they remedy vulnerabilities. Customers may also not deploy a security release or decide not to upgrade to the latest versions of our products, services or cloud-based solutions containing the release, leaving them vulnerable. Vulnerabilities and critical security defects, prioritization errors in remedying vulnerabilities or security defects, failure of third-party providers to remedy vulnerabilities or security defects, or customers not deploying security releases or deciding not to

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upgrade products, services or solutions could result in claims of liability against us, damage our reputation or otherwise harm our business.

Our business, operating results and financial condition could be materially harmed by regulatory uncertainty applicable to our products and services. Changes in regulatory requirements applicable to the industries in which we operate, in the United States and in other countries, could materially affect the sales of our products and services. In particular, changes in telecommunications regulations could impact our service provider customers’ purchase of our products and offers, and they could also impact sales of our own regulated offers. In addition, evolving legal requirements restricting or controlling the collection, processing, or cross-border transmission of data, including regulation of cloud-based services, could materially affect our customers’ ability to use, and our ability to sell, our products and offers. Additional areas of uncertainty that could impact sales of our products and offers include laws and regulations related to encryption technology, environmental sustainability, export control, product certification and national security controls applicable to our supply chain. Changes in regulatory requirements in these areas could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition.

Our network could fail, which could negatively impact our revenues. Our success depends upon our ability to deliver reliable, high-speed access to our channels’ and customers’ data centers and upon the ability and willingness of our telecommunications providers to deliver reliable, high-speed telecommunications service through their networks. Our network and facilities, and other networks and facilities providing services to us, are vulnerable to damage, unauthorized access, or cessation of operations from human error and tampering, breaches of security, fires, earthquakes, severe storms, power losses, telecommunications failures, software defects, intentional acts of vandalism including computer viruses, and similar events. The occurrence of a natural disaster or other unanticipated problems at the network operations center, key sites at which we locate routers, switches and other computer equipment that make up the backbone of our service offering and hosted infrastructure, or at one or more of our partners’ data centers, could substantially and adversely impact our business. We cannot ensure that we will not experience failures or shutdowns relating to individual facilities or even catastrophic failure of the entire network or hosted infrastructure. Any damage to, or failure of, our systems or service providers could result in reductions in, or terminations of, services supplied to our customers, which could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

Our network depends upon telecommunications carriers who could limit or deny us access to their network or fail to perform, which would have a material adverse effect on our business. We rely upon the ability and willingness of certain telecommunications carriers and other corporations to provide us with reliable high-speed telecommunications service through their networks. If these telecommunications carriers and other corporations decide not to continue to provide service to us through their networks on substantially the same terms and conditions (including, without limitation, price, early termination liability, and installation interval), if at all, it would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations. Additionally, many of our service level objectives are dependent upon satisfactory performance by our telecommunications carriers. If they fail to so perform, it may have a material adverse effect on our business.

Risks Related to Intellectual Property

Our failure to obtain or maintain the right to use certain intellectual property may negatively affect our business. Our future success and competitive position depend in part upon our ability to obtain and maintain certain proprietary intellectual property to be used in connection with our services. While we are not currently engaged in any intellectual property litigation, we could become subject to lawsuits in which it is alleged that we have infringed the intellectual property rights of others, or we could commence lawsuits against others who we believe are infringing upon our rights.

Third parties, including customers, may in the future assert claims or initiate litigation related to exclusive patent, copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property rights to technologies and related standards that are relevant to us. Because of the existence of a large number of patents in the networking field, the secrecy of some pending patents, and the rapid rate of issuance of new patents, it is not economically practical or even possible to determine in advance whether a product or any of its components infringes or will infringe on the patent rights of others. The asserted claims and/or initiated litigation can include claims against us or our manufacturers, suppliers, or customers, alleging infringement of their proprietary rights with respect to our existing or future products or components of those products. Regardless of the merit of these claims, they can be time-consuming, result in costly litigation, and where claims are made by customers, resistance even to unmeritorious claims could damage customer relationships.

An adverse outcome as a defendant in any such litigation may result in impacts to the Company including, but not limited to:

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•Payment of substantial damages;

•Diversion of technical and management personnel;

•Cessation of the use, development, or sale of services that infringe upon patented intellectual property;

•Entrance into license agreements; and

•Expending significant resources to develop or acquire a non-infringing technology.

There can be no assurance that that we would be successful in such litigation, that development or licenses will be available on acceptable terms and conditions, if at all, or that our indemnification by our suppliers will be adequate to cover our costs if a claim were brought directly against us or our customers. Furthermore, because of the potential for high court awards that are not necessarily predictable, it is not unusual to find even arguably unmeritorious claims settled for significant amounts. If any infringement or other intellectual property claim made against us by any third party is successful, if we are required to indemnify a customer with respect to a claim against the customer, or if we fail to develop non-infringing technology or license the proprietary rights on commercially reasonable terms and conditions, our business, operating results, and financial condition could be materially and adversely affected. Our exposure to risks associated with the use of intellectual property may be increased as a result of acquisitions, as we have a lower level of visibility into the development process with respect to such technology or the care taken to safeguard against infringement risks.

An adverse outcome as plaintiff in any such litigation, in addition to the costs involved, may, among other things, result in the loss of the intellectual property (such as a patent) that was the subject of the lawsuit by a determination of invalidity or unenforceability, significantly increase competition as a result of such determination, and require the payment of penalties resulting from counterclaims by the defendant.

We may not be able to protect the rights to, or enforce, our intellectual property. We generally rely on patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secret laws to establish and maintain proprietary rights in our technology and products. We have been issued numerous patents, other patent applications are currently pending, and some of our intellectual property is not covered by any patent. If we further develop our services and related intellectual property, we expect to seek additional patent protection. Our patent position is subject to complex factual and legal issues that may give rise to uncertainty as to the validity, scope and enforceability of a particular patent. Accordingly, we cannot assure that any of the patents owned by us or other patents that other parties license to us in the future will not be invalidated, circumvented, challenged, rendered unenforceable or licensed to others; any of our pending or future patent applications will be issued with the breadth of claim coverage sought by it, if issued at all; or any patents owned by or licensed to us, although valid, will not be dominated by a patent or patents to others having broader claims. Furthermore, many key aspects of networking technology are governed by industry-wide standards, which are usable by all market entrants, and there can be no assurance that patents will be issued from pending applications or that claims allowed on any patents will be sufficiently broad to protect our technology. Additionally, the laws of some foreign countries may not protect our proprietary rights to the same extent as do the laws of the United States. The outcome of any actions taken in these foreign countries may be different than if such actions were determined under the laws of the United States. Although we are not dependent on any individual patent or group of patents for particular segments of the business for which we compete, if we are unable to protect our proprietary rights to the totality of the features (including aspects of products protected other than by patent rights) in a market, we may find ourselves at a competitive disadvantage to others who need not incur the substantial expense, time and effort required to create innovative products that have enabled us to be successful.

Failure to protect our existing intellectual property rights may result in the loss of our exclusivity or the right to use our technologies. If we do not adequately ensure our freedom to use certain technology, we may have to pay others for rights to use their intellectual property, pay damages for infringement or misappropriation and/or be enjoined from using such intellectual property.

We also seek to protect our proprietary intellectual property, including intellectual property that may not be patented or patentable, in part by confidentiality agreements. We cannot ensure that these agreements will not be breached, that we will have adequate remedies for any breach or that such persons will not assert rights to intellectual property arising out of these relationships.

A number of our solutions incorporate software provided under open-source licenses which may restrict or impose certain obligations on how we use or distribute our solutions or subject us to various risks and challenges, which could result in increased development expenses, delays or disruptions to the release or distribution of those solutions, inability to protect our intellectual property rights and increased competition. Certain significant components of our solutions incorporate or are based upon open-source software, and we may incorporate open-source software into other solutions in the future. Such open-source software is generally licensed under open-source licenses, including, for example, the GNU General Public

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License, the GNU Lesser General Public License, "Apache-style" licenses, "BSD-style" licenses and other open-source licenses. The use of open-source software subjects us to a number of risks and challenges, including, but not limited to:

•If open-source software programmers, most of whom we do not employ, do not continue to develop and enhance open source technologies, our development expenses could increase and our product release and upgrade schedules could be delayed.

•Open-source software is open to further development or modification by anyone. As a result, others may develop such software to be competitive with our platform and may make such competitive software available as open source. It is also possible for competitors to develop their own solutions using open-source software, potentially reducing the demand for, and putting price pressure on, our solutions.

•The licenses under which we license certain types of open-source software may require that, if we modify the open source software we receive, we are required to make such modified software and other related proprietary software of ours publicly available without cost and on the same terms. In addition, some open-source licenses appear to be permissive in that internal use of the open source software is allowed, but prohibit commercial uses, or treat provision of cloud services as triggering the requirement to make proprietary software publicly available. Accordingly, we monitor our use of open-source software in an effort to avoid subjecting our proprietary software to such conditions and others we do not intend. Although we believe that we have complied with our obligations under the various applicable licenses for open-source software that we use, our processes used to monitor how open-source software is used could be subject to error. In addition, there is little or no legal precedent governing the interpretation of terms in most of these licenses and licensors sometimes change their license terms. Therefore, any improper usage of open-source, including a failure to identify changes in license terms, could result in unanticipated obligations regarding our solutions and technologies, which could have an adverse impact on our intellectual property rights and our ability to derive revenue from solutions incorporating the open source software.

•If an author or other third party that distributes such open-source software were to allege that we had not complied with the conditions of one or more of these licenses, we could be required to incur legal expenses defending against such allegations, or engineering expenses in developing a substitute solution.

If we are unable to successfully address the challenges of integrating offerings based upon open-source technology into our business, our business and operating results may be adversely affected and our development costs may increase.

Risks to Owning Our Common Stock

Our stock price has fluctuated in the past, has recently been volatile and may be volatile in the future, and as a result, investors in our common stock could incur substantial losses. Historically, our common stock has experienced substantial price volatility, particularly as a result of variations between our actual financial results and the published expectations of analysts and as a result of announcements by our competitors and us. Furthermore, speculation in the press or investment community about our strategic position, financial condition, results of operations, business, and security of our products or significant transactions can cause changes in our stock price. In addition, the stock market has experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have affected the market price of many technology companies, in particular, and that have often been unrelated to the operating performance of these companies. These factors, as well as general economic and political conditions and the announcement of proposed and completed acquisitions or other significant transactions, or any difficulties associated with such transactions, by us or our current or potential competitors, may materially adversely affect the market price of our common stock in the future. The market price for our common stock may be influenced by many factors, including the following:

•conversions of Series F Preferred Stock into common stock and the subsequent sales of common stock;

•investor reaction to our business strategy;

•the success of competitive products or technologies;

•our ability to comply with the continued listing standards of the Nasdaq Capital Market;

•regulatory or legal developments in the United States and other countries, especially changes in laws or regulations applicable to our products;

•variations in our financial results or those of companies that are perceived to be similar to us;

•our ability or inability to raise additional capital and the terms on which we raise it;

•declines in the market prices of stocks generally;

•trading volume of our common stock;

•conversions of Series F Preferred Stock into common stock and the subsequent sales of common stock;

•sales of our common stock by us or our stockholders;

•general economic, industry and market conditions;

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•the transformation of our business to deliver more software and subscriptions offerings where revenue is recognized over time;

•fluctuations in demand for our products and services, especially with respect to distributors and partners, in part due to changes in the global economic environment;

•the introduction and market acceptance of new technologies and products, and our success in new evolving markets, and in emerging technologies, as well as the adoption of new standards;

•the ability of our customers, channel partners, contract manufacturers and suppliers to obtain financing or to fund capital expenditures, especially during a period of global credit market disruption or in the event of customer, channel partner, contract manufacturer or supplier financial problem;

•the overall movement toward industry consolidation among both our competitors and our customers;

•changes in sales and implementation cycles for our products and reduced visibility into our customers’ spending plans and associated revenue;

•the timing, size and mix of orders from customers;

•manufacturing and customer lead times;

•how well we execute on our strategy and operating plans and the impact of changes in our business model that could result in significant restructuring charges;

•our ability to achieve targeted cost reductions;

•benefits anticipated from our investments;

•changes in tax law or accounting rules, or interpretations thereof;

•actual events, circumstances, outcomes and amounts differing from judgments, assumptions and estimates used in determining the values of certain assets (including the amounts of related valuation allowances), liabilities, and other items reflected in our Consolidated Financial Statements;

•other events or factors, including those resulting from such events, or the prospect of such events, including war, terrorism and other international conflicts, public health issues including health epidemics or pandemics, such as the outbreak of COVID-19, and natural disasters such as fire, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados or other adverse weather and climate conditions, whether occurring in the United States or elsewhere, could disrupt our operations, disrupt the operations of our suppliers or result in political or economic instability; and

•the failure of any bank and the resulting economic uncertainty caused by such failures.

These broad market and industry factors may seriously harm the market price of our common stock, regardless of our operating performance. Since the stock price of our common stock has fluctuated in the past, has been recently volatile and may be volatile in the future, investors in our common stock could incur substantial losses. In the past, following periods of volatility in the market, securities class-action litigation has often been instituted against companies. Such litigation, if instituted against us, could result in substantial costs and diversion of management’s attention and resources, which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and growth prospects. There can be no guarantee that our stock price will remain at current prices or that future sales of our common stock will not be at prices lower than those sold to investors.

Throughout much of our corporate history, our common stock has been thinly traded, and therefore has therefore been susceptible to wide price swings. While our common stock has recently experienced increased trading volume, we cannot ensure that this level of trading volume will continue, or that the increased trading volumes will lessen the historic volatility in the price for our common stock. Thinly traded stocks are more susceptible to significant and sudden price changes and the liquidity of our common stock depends upon the presence in the marketplace of willing buyers and sellers. At any time, the liquidity of our common stock may decrease to the thinly traded levels it has experienced in the past, and we cannot ensure that any holder of our securities will be able to find a buyer for its shares. Further, we cannot ensure that an organized public market for our securities will continue or that there will be any private demand for our common stock.

Additionally, recently, securities of certain companies have experienced significant and extreme volatility in stock price due short sellers of shares of common stock, known as a “short squeeze.” These short squeezes have caused extreme volatility in those companies and in the market and have led to the price per share of those companies to trade at a significantly inflated rate that is disconnected from the underlying value of the company. Many investors who have purchased shares in those companies at an inflated rate face the risk of losing a significant portion of their original investment as the price per share has declined steadily as interest in those stocks have abated. While we have no reason to believe our shares would be the target of a short squeeze, there can be no assurance that we will not be in the future, and you may lose a significant portion or all of your investment if you purchase our shares at a rate that is significantly disconnected from our underlying value.

Penny stock regulations may impose certain restrictions on the marketability of our securities. The SEC has adopted regulations which generally define a “penny stock” to be any equity security that has a market price less than $5.00 per share, subject to certain exceptions. Our common stock is presently subject to these regulations, which impose additional sales

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practice requirements on broker-dealers who sell such securities to persons other than established customers and accredited investors (generally those with a net worth in excess of $1,000,000 or annual income exceeding $200,000, or $300,000 together with their spouse). For transactions covered by these rules, the broker-dealer must make a special suitability determination for the purchase of such securities and have received the purchaser’s written consent to the transaction prior to the purchase. Additionally, for any transaction involving a “penny stock,” unless exempt, the rules require the delivery, prior to the transaction, of a risk disclosure document mandated by the SEC relating to the “penny stock” market. The broker-dealer must also disclose the commission payable to both the broker-dealer and the registered representative, current quotations for the securities and, if the broker-dealer is the sole market maker, the broker-dealer must disclose this fact and the broker-dealer’s presumed control over the market. Finally, monthly statements must be sent disclosing recent price information for the “penny stock” held in the account and information on the limited market in “penny stocks.” Consequently, the “penny stock” rules may restrict the ability of broker-dealers to sell our securities and may negatively affect the ability of purchasers of our shares of common stock to sell such securities.

Future operating results may vary from quarter to quarter, and we may fail to meet the expectations of securities analysts and investors at any given time. We have experienced, and may continue to experience, significant quarterly fluctuations in operating results. Factors that cause fluctuation in our results of operations include lack of revenue growth or declines in revenue and declines in gross margins and increases in operating expenses. Accordingly, it is possible that in one or more future quarters our operating results will be adversely affected and fall below the expectations of securities analysts and investors. If this happens, the trading price of our common stock may decline.

Sales of substantial amounts of common stock in the public market, or the perception that such sales may occur, could reduce the market price of our common stock and make it more difficult for us and our stockholders to sell our equity securities in the future. The sale into the public market of a significant number of shares of common stock by our existing shareholders, or the resale into the public market of shares issued in prior or future financings, could depress the trading price of our common stock and make it more difficult for us or our stockholders to sell equity securities in the future. Such transactions may include, but are not limited to (i) conversions of Series F Preferred Stock into common stock and the subsequent sales of such common stock, (ii) any future issuances by us of additional shares of our common stock or of other securities that are convertible or exchangeable for shares of common stock; and (iii) the resale of any previously issued but restricted shares of our common stock that become freely available for re- sale, whether through an effective registration statement or under Rule 144 of the Securities Act.

While the sale of shares to the public might increase the trading volume of our common stock and thus the liquidity of our stockholders’ investments, the resulting increase in the number of shares available for public sale could drive the price of our common stock down, thus reducing the value of our stockholders’ investment and perhaps hindering our ability to raise additional funds in the future.

The issuance of the securities in the March 2023 private placement significantly diluted the ownership interest of the existing holders of our common stock, and the market price of our common stock has declined significantly as a result of sales of such securities into the public market by the private placement investors and subsequent investors or the perception that such sales may occur. Our existing holders of common stock have been significantly diluted by the issuance of the securities in the March 31, 2023 private placement. Our public float was significantly increased and the market price of our common stock has declined significantly as a result of subsequent sales of the shares of common stock obtained from conversions of Series F Preferred Stock issued in the private placement.

In addition, the exercise price or conversion price of these securities may be at prices below the current and/or then trading prices of shares of our common stock or at prices below the price at which our existing shareholders purchased our common stock. The private placement investors may potentially make a significant profit with the resale of the securities depending on the trading price of our securities at the time of a sale and the purchase price of such securities by them. While the private placement investors may experience a positive rate of return based on the trading price of our securities, the existing holders of our common stock may not experience a similar rate of return on the shares of common stock they purchased due to differences in the applicable purchase price and trading price.

We might need to raise additional capital by issuing securities or debt, which may cause significant dilution to our stockholders and restrict our operations. We believe that our existing cash and cash equivalents will be sufficient to fund our operations and meet our working capital requirements for at least the next 12 months from the filing date of this Report with the SEC. However, we believe additional capital will be required in the long-term, to fund operations and provide growth capital including potential strategic alternatives and investments in technology, product development, and sales and marketing. Additional financing may not be available when we need it or may not be available on favorable terms. To the extent that we raise additional capital by issuing equity securities, the terms of such an issuance may cause more significant dilution to our

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stockholders’ ownership, and the terms of any new equity securities may have preferences over the combined organization’s common stock. Any debt financing we enter into may involve covenants that restrict our operations. These restrictive covenants may include limitations on additional borrowing and specific restrictions on the use of our assets, as well as prohibitions on our ability to create liens, pay dividends, redeem stock or make investments.

Our charter documents and Delaware law could discourage takeover attempts and lead to management entrenchment. The Company’s certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws contain provisions that could delay or prevent a change in control of the company. These provisions could also make it difficult for stockholders to elect directors that are not nominated by the current members of the board of directors or take other corporate actions, including effecting changes in the Company’s management. These provisions include:

•no cumulative voting in the election of directors, which limits the ability of minority stockholders to elect director candidates;

•the ability of our board of directors to issue shares of preferred stock and to determine the price and other terms of those shares, including preferences and voting rights, without stockholder approval, which could be used to significantly dilute the ownership of a hostile acquirer;

•the exclusive right of our board of directors to elect a director to fill a vacancy created by the expansion of our board of directors or the resignation, death or removal of a director, which prevents stockholders from being able to fill vacancies on its board of directors;

•the requirement that a special meeting of stockholders may be called only by the chairman of our board of directors or a majority of our board of directors, which could delay the ability of our stockholders to force consideration of a proposal or to take action, including the removal of directors;

•the ability of our board of directors, by majority vote, to amend the Company’s amended and restated bylaws, which may allow our board of directors to take additional actions to prevent an unsolicited takeover and inhibit the ability of an acquirer to amend the amended and restated bylaws to facilitate an unsolicited takeover attempt; and

•advance notice procedures with which stockholders must comply to nominate candidates to our board of directors or to propose matters to be acted upon at a stockholders’ meeting, which may discourage or deter a potential acquirer from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect the acquirer’s own slate of directors or otherwise attempting to obtain control of the Company.

We could fail to satisfy the standards to maintain our listing on a stock exchange. Our Common Stock is listed on The Nasdaq Capital Market. In order to maintain that listing, we must satisfy minimum financial and other continued listing requirements and standards. Previously, on September 21, 2023, we received a letter from the listing qualifications staff of Nasdaq providing notification that the bid price for our Common Stock had closed below $1.00 per share for the previous 30 consecutive business days and our Common Stock no longer met the minimum bid price requirement for continued listing under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2). In accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A), we were provided an initial period of 180 calendar days, until March 19, 2024, in which to regain compliance. To regain compliance, the closing bid price of our Common Stock must meet or exceed $1.00 per share for a minimum of 10 consecutive business days at any time before the expiration of the initial compliance period.

In the event that we are unable to regain compliance with Rule 5550(a)(2) during the initial compliance period, Nasdaq rules provide that we may be eligible for an additional 180 calendar day compliance period. To qualify, we need to meet the continued listing requirement for market value of publicly held shares and all other initial listing standards for the Nasdaq Capital Market, with the exception of the minimum bid price requirement, and to provide written notice of our intention to cure the deficiency during the second compliance period by effecting a reverse stock split, if necessary. The Company believes that we will receive the extension, though there can be no assurances.

In the event that we are unable to establish compliance, or again become non-compliant, with Rule 5550(a)(2) or other continued listing requirements of Nasdaq and cannot re-establish compliance within the required timeframe, our Common Stock could be delisted from The Nasdaq Capital Market, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and which may cause the value of our Common Stock to decline. If our Common Stock is not eligible for listing or quotation on another market or exchange, trading of our Common Stock could be conducted in the over-the-counter market or on an electronic bulletin board established for unlisted securities such as the Pink Sheets or the OTC Bulletin Board. In such event, it would become more difficult to dispose of, or obtain accurate price quotations for, our Common Stock, and there would likely be a reduction in our coverage by security analysts and the news media, which could cause the price of our Common Stock to decline further. In addition, it may be difficult for us to raise additional capital if we are not listed on a national securities exchange.

While Nasdaq rules do not impose a specific limit on the number of times a listed company may effect a reverse stock split to maintain or regain compliance with Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A), Nasdaq has stated that a series of reverse stock splits may

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undermine investor confidence in securities listed on Nasdaq. Accordingly, Nasdaq may determine that it is not in the public interest to maintain our listing, even if we regain compliance with Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A) as a result of any reverse stock split. In addition, Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A)(iv) states that any listed company that fails to meet Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A) after effecting one or more reverse stock splits over the prior two-year period with a cumulative ratio of 250 shares or more to one, then the company will not be eligible for an automatic 180-day grace compliance period and the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Department is obligated to immediately issue a delisting determination.

Our authorized reverse stock split may decrease the liquidity of the shares of our Common Stock. On December 4, 2023, the Company’s stockholders approved a proposal to amend Article FOURTH of the Company’s certificate of incorporation to effect a reverse stock split of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock by a ratio ranging from 1-for-10 to 1-for-45. Our Board of Directors now has the authority to determine whether to implement a reverse stock split and to select the reverse stock split ratio from the range approved by the Company’s stockholders. The Board expects to authorize the consummation of the reverse stock split only if and to the extent necessary to meet the listing requirements of the Nasdaq Capital Market. The liquidity of the shares of our Common Stock may be affected adversely by the reverse stock split given the reduced number of shares that are outstanding following the reverse stock splits. In addition, the reverse stock split may increase the number of stockholders who own odd lots (less than 100 shares) of our Common Stock, creating the potential for such stockholders to experience an increase in the cost of selling their shares and greater difficulty effecting such sales.

General Risks

We incur significant accounting and administrative costs as a publicly traded corporation that impact our financial condition. As a publicly traded corporation, we incur certain costs to comply with regulatory requirements. If regulatory requirements were to become more stringent or if controls thought to be effective later fail, we may be forced to make additional expenditures, the amounts of which could be material. Some of our competitors are privately owned so their comparatively lower accounting and administrative costs can be a competitive disadvantage for us. Should our sales continue to decline or if we are unsuccessful at increasing prices to cover higher expenditures for internal controls and audits, our costs associated with regulatory compliance will rise as a percentage of sales.

Our cash and cash equivalents could be adversely affected if the financial institutions in which we hold our cash and cash equivalents fail. Actual events involving limited liquidity, defaults, non-performance or other adverse developments that affect financial institutions, transactional counterparties or other companies in the financial services industry or the financial services industry generally, or concerns or rumors about any events of these kinds or other similar risks, have in the past and may in the future lead to market-wide liquidity problems. If we were unable to access all or a significant portion of the amounts we have deposited at financial institutions for any extended period of time, we may not be able to pay our operational expenses or make other payments until we are able to move our funds to accounts at one or more other financial institutions, which process could cause a temporary delay in making payments to our vendors and employees and cause other operational challenges.

Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments

None.

Item 1C. Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Risk Management and Strategy

We have a multilayered framework for detecting, and responding to reasonably foreseeable cybersecurity risks and threats. To protect our information technology (“IT”), systems from cybersecurity threats, we use various tools that help prevent, detect, escalate, investigate, resolve, and recover from identified vulnerabilities and security incidents in a timely manner. In the event of a material change to our systems or operations, we would assess the internal and external threats to the security, confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our data and systems, along with other material risks to our operations. We leverage technical safeguards intended to protect the Company’s information systems from cybersecurity threats, including firewalls, threat monitoring, intrusion prevention and detection systems, anti-malware, access controls, privilege management, network segmentation, asset and end point management, and ongoing system security assessments. We oversee third-party service providers by conducting vendor diligence and reviews on a regular basis. We monitor and evaluate our cybersecurity posture and performance on an ongoing basis through regular network scans, system audits, and assessing intelligence feeds. The results of these assessments are used to improve our security posture through remediation efforts.

We have developed an incident management process designed to coordinate the activities to prepare to respond and recover from cybersecurity incidents, which include processes to triage, assess severity, investigate, escalate, contain, and remediate an incident, as well as to comply with potentially applicable legal obligations and mitigate any reputational damage.

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Our business strategy, results of operations, and financial condition have not been materially affected as a result of previously identified cybersecurity incidents, but we cannot provide assurance that they will not be materially affected in the future by such risks or any future material incidents. For more information on our cybersecurity-related risks, see “Item 1A, Risk Factors” in this Annual Report.

Governance

Oblong’s IT team is responsible for assessing and managing cybersecurity risks and has a depth of experience focused on increasing the organization's resilience to security threats and stays current on new developments through monitoring of the cybersecurity landscape. Oblong’s IT environment is monitored for potential security threats and security events are investigated and acted on to minimize potential risk to the environment.

Oblong’s Audit Committee engages in oversight of Oblong's cybersecurity risks and receives regular updates from management on technology and security updates and Oblong’s assessment of cybersecurity threats and mitigation plans. The Audit Committee oversees the processes over internal controls and financial reporting that includes controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that significant cybersecurity incidents are communicated to both senior management and the Audit Committee. In the event of a material cybersecurity incident affecting our IT systems or data management, the Audit Committee would promptly work to formulate a mitigation plan and review compliance with such plan, as well as to ensure compliance with any external regulatory or disclosure requirements, including any disclosures of material cybersecurity incidents.

Item 2. Properties

As of December 31, 2023, we leased a facility in City of Industry, California, providing warehouse space. This lease expired in February 2024. During 2023, and through the date of this filing, we exited the City of Industry, CA lease as well as leases in Austin, TX and Los Angeles, CA. We are currently in the process of securing a warehouse facility in, or around, Denver, CO. During the interim, our inventory is being stored in a secured third party location. With the exception of warehouse space described above, we currently operate out of remote employment sites with a remote office located at 110 16th Street, Suite 1400-1024, Denver, CO 80202. For additional information regarding our obligations under leases, see Note 8 - Operating Lease Liabilities and Right-of-Use Assets to the Consolidated Financial Statements contained in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report.

Item 3. Legal Proceedings

From time to time, we are subject to various legal proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business, including proceedings for which we have insurance coverage. As of the date hereof, we are not party to any legal proceedings that we currently believe will have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position, results of operations or liquidity.

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 Company’s common stock trades on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “OBLG.”

On March 8, 2024, the closing sale price of our common stock was $0.16 per share as reported on the Nasdaq Capital Market, and 16,684,571 shares of our common stock were issued and outstanding. As of March 8, 2024, there were 147 holders of record of our common stock. Equiniti is the transfer agent and registrar of our common stock.

Dividends

Our board of directors has never declared or paid any cash dividends on our common stock and does not expect to do so for the foreseeable future. We currently intend to retain any earnings to finance the growth and development of our business. Our

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board of directors will make any future determination of the payment of dividends based upon conditions then existing, including our earnings, financial condition and capital requirements, as well as such economic and other conditions as our board of directors may deem relevant.

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

Except as previously reported by us on our Current Reports on Form 8-K, we did not sell any securities during the period covered by this Annual Report that were not registered under the Securities Act.

Item 6. Reserved

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

The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, and the related notes attached thereto. All statements contained herein that are not historical facts, including, but not limited to, statements regarding anticipated future capital requirements, our future development plans, our ability to obtain debt, equity or other financing, and our ability to generate cash from operations, are based on current expectations. The discussion of results, causes and trends should not be construed to imply any conclusion that such results or trends will necessarily continue in the future.

Business

We are a provider of patented multi-stream collaboration products and managed services for video collaboration and network solutions. The Company currently operates in two segments: (1) “Collaboration Products,” which represents the business surrounding our Mezzanine™ product offerings, and (2) “Managed Services,” which represents the business surrounding managed services for video collaboration and network solutions.

Mezzanine™ Product Offerings

Our flagship product is called Mezzanine™, a family of turn-key products that enable dynamic and immersive visual collaboration across multi-users, multi-screens, multi-devices, and multi-locations (see further description of Mezzanine™ in Part I, Item 1). Mezzanine™ allows multiple people to share, control and arrange content simultaneously, from any location, enabling all participants to see the same content in its entirety at the same time in identical formats, resulting in dramatic enhancements to both in-room and virtual videoconference presentations. Applications include video telepresence, laptop and application sharing, whiteboard sharing and slides. Spatial input allows content to be spread across screens, spanning different walls, scalable to an arbitrary number of displays and interaction with our proprietary wand device. Mezzanine™ substantially enhances day-to-day virtual meetings with technology that accelerates decision making, improves communication, and increases productivity. Mezzanine™ scales up to support the most immersive and commanding innovation centers; across to link labs, conference spaces, and situation rooms; and down for the smallest work groups. Mezzanine’s digital collaboration platform can be sold as delivered systems in various configurations for small teams to total immersion experiences. The family includes the 200 Series (two display screen), 300 Series (three screen), and 600 Series (six screen). We also sell maintenance and support contracts related to Mezzanine™.

Historically, customers have used Mezzanine™ products in traditional office and operating center environments such as conference rooms or other presentation spaces. As discussed below, sales of our Mezzanine product have been adversely affected by commercial response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. Like many technology companies in recent months, we will continue to monitor and manage our costs relative to demand with the goal of growing the Company’s revenue in the future. To the extent we believe new investments in product development, marketing, or sales are warranted as a result of changes in market demand, we believe additional capital will be required to fund those efforts and our ongoing operations.

Managed Services for Video Collaboration

We provide a range of managed services for video collaboration, from automated to orchestrated, to simplify the user experience in an effort to drive adoption of video collaboration throughout our customers’ enterprise. We deliver our services through a hybrid service platform or as a service layer on top of our customers’ video infrastructure. We provide our customers with i) managed videoconferencing, where we set up and manage customer videoconferences and ii) remote service management, where we provide 24/7 support and management of customer video environments.

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Managed Services for Network

Results of Operations

Year Ended December 31, 2023 (“2023”) versus Year Ended December 31, 2022 (“2022”)

Segment Reporting

The Company currently operates in two segments for purposes of segment reporting: (1) “Collaboration Products,” which represents the Oblong Industries business surrounding our Mezzanine™ product offerings and (2) “Managed Services,” which represents the Oblong (formerly Glowpoint) business surrounding managed services for video collaboration and network solutions.

Certain information concerning the Company’s segments for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, is presented in the following table (in thousands):


	Year Ended December 31, 2023
	Managed Services			Collaboration Products			Corporate			Total
Revenue	$	2,518		$	1,292		$	—		$	3,810
Cost of revenues	1,671			1,228			—			2,899
Gross profit	$	847		$	64		$	—		$	911
Gross profit %	34		%	5		%	—		%	24		%

Allocated operating expenses	$	3		$	481		$	—		$	484
Unallocated operating expenses	—			—			4,922			4,922
Total operating expenses	$	3		$	481		$	4,922		$	5,406

Income (loss) from operations	$	844		$	(417)		$	(4,922)		$	(4,495)
Interest and other income, net	—			—			(138)			(138)
Income (loss) before income taxes	$	844		$	(417)		$	(4,784)		$	(4,357)
Income tax expense	$	11		$	16		$	—		$	27
Net income (loss)	$	833		$	(433)		$	(4,784)		$	(4,384)

	Year Ended December 31, 2023
Total assets	$	367		$	568		$	5,990		$	6,925

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	Year Ended December 31, 2022
	Managed Services			Collaboration Products			Corporate			Total
Revenue	$	3,348		$	2,128		$	—		$	5,476
Cost of revenues	2,273			1,657			—			3,930
Gross profit	$	1,075		$	471		$	—		$	1,546
Gross profit %	32		%	22		%	—		%	28		%

Allocated operating expenses	$	19		$	18,355		$	—		$	18,374
Unallocated operating expenses	—			—			5,160			5,160
Total operating expenses	$	19		$	18,355		$	5,160		$	23,534

Income (loss) from operations	$	1,056		$	(17,884)		$	(5,160)		$	(21,988)
Interest and other (income) expense, net	12			(52)			—			(40)
Income (loss) before income taxes	$	1,044		$	(17,832)		$	(5,160)		$	(21,948)
Income tax benefit	$	(4)		$	(3)					$	(7)
Net income (loss)	$	1,048		$	(17,829)		$	(5,160)		$	(21,941)

	Year Ended December 31, 2022
Total assets	$	752		$	1,824		$	3,085		$	5,661

Unallocated operating expenses in Corporate include costs that are not specific to a particular segment but are general to the group; included are expenses incurred for administrative and accounting staff, general liability and other insurance, professional fees and other similar corporate expenses. Unallocated assets consist of unrestricted cash.

Revenue. Total revenue decreased 30.4% for the year ended December 31, 2023 compared to the year ended December 31, 2022. The following table summarizes the changes in components of our revenue, and the significant changes in revenue are discussed in more detail below (in thousands):


	Year Ended December 31,
	2023		% of Revenue		2022		% of Revenue
Revenue: Managed Services
Video collaboration services	$	183	5	%	$	334	6	%
Network services	2,301		60	%	2,954		54	%
Professional and other services	34		1	%	60		1	%
Total Managed Services revenue	$	2,518	66	%	$	3,348	61	%

Revenue: Collaboration Products
Visual collaboration product offerings	$	1,291	34	%	$	2,114	39	%

Licensing	1		—	%	$	14	—	%
Total Collaboration Products revenue	$	1,292	34	%	$	2,128	39	%
Total consolidated revenue	$	3,810	100	%	$	5,476	100	%

Managed Services

•The year over year decrease in revenue for video collaboration services is mainly attributable to lower revenue from existing customers (either from reductions in price or level of services) and loss of customers to competition.

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•The year over year decrease in revenue for network services is mainly attributable to net attrition of customers and lower demand for our services given the competitive environment and pressure on pricing that exists in the network services business.

•We expect revenue declines in our Managed Services segment will continue in the future.

Collaboration Products

•Customers generally use our Mezzanine™ products in traditional office and operating center environments such as conference rooms or other presentation spaces. The year over year decrease in revenue for our Collaboration Products business is due to lower demand, largely a consequence of the work-place reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic and its prolonged effects. We believe the pandemic has fundamentally altered the way businesses consider the use of physical office spaces and, consequently, the demand for technologies that enable in-person collaboration within these spaces. Our analysis indicates that the reduced demand for our Mezzanine™ products, particularly in the aftermath of COVID-19, reflects a broader reassessment among our customers regarding the necessity and investment in collaboration solutions tailored for traditional office environments.

Cost of Revenue (exclusive of depreciation and amortization). Cost of revenue, exclusive of depreciation and amortization and casualty (gain)/loss, includes all internal and external costs related to the delivery of revenue. Cost of revenue also includes taxes which have been billed to customers. Cost of revenue by segment is presented in the following table (in thousands):


	Year Ended December 31,
	2023		2022
Cost of Revenue
Managed Services	$	1,671	$	2,273
Collaboration Products	1,228		1,657
Total cost of revenue	$	2,899	$	3,930

The year over year decrease in cost of revenue is mainly attributable to lower costs associated with the decrease in revenue during the same period. The Company’s gross profit as a percentage of revenue was 24% in 2023 compared to 28% in 2022. This decrease in gross profit was primarily due to the decline in gross profit percentage for our Collaboration Products segment. The gross profit as a percentage of revenue for our Collaboration Products segment was 5% in 2023 compared to 22% in 2022. This decrease was mainly attributable to an increase in our inventory obsolescence reserve as a percentage of sales in 2023 vs. 2022.

Operating expenses are presented in the following table (in thousands):


	Year Ended December 31,
	2023		2022		$ Change		% Change
Operating expenses (gains):
Research and development	$	20	$	1,699	$	(1,679)	(99)	%
Sales and marketing	309		1,431		(1,122)		(78)	%
General and administrative	4,870		5,278		(408)		(8)	%
Impairment charges	262		12,740		(12,478)		(98)	%
Casualty (gain) loss, net	(400)		483		(883)		100	%
Depreciation and amortization	345		1,903		(1,558)		(82)	%
Total operating expenses	$	5,406	$	23,534	$	(18,128)	(77)	%

Research and Development. Research and development expenses include internal and external costs related to developing features and enhancements to our existing product offerings. The year over year decrease in research and development expenses for 2023 compared to 2022 is primarily attributable to the ceasing of the majority of R&D activities during late 2022, which resulted in lower personnel costs due to reduced headcount and a reduction in consulting and outsourced labor costs between these periods.

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Sales and Marketing. The year over year decrease in sales and marketing expenses for 2023 compared to 2022 is primarily attributable to lower personnel costs due to reduced headcount and reduced marketing expenses year over year.

General and Administrative. General and administrative expenses include direct corporate expenses related to costs of personnel in the various corporate support categories, including executive, legal, finance and accounting, human resources and information technology. The year over year decrease in general and administrative expenses in 2023 compared to 2022 is mainly attributable to decreases of $344,000 in software license expense, and a $170,000 reduction to bad debt expense.

Impairment Charges. The impairment charges in 2023 are primarily attributable to impairment charges of $259,000 related to intangible assets. The impairment charges in 2022 are attributable to impairment charges of $7,367,000 related to goodwill, impairment charges of $5,133,000 related to intangible assets, impairment charges of $59,000 related to property and equipment, and impairment charges of $179,000 related to right-of-use assets associated with two of our Los Angeles, CA leases.

Casualty Loss (Gain), net. In June 2022, the Company discovered that $533,000 of inventory was stolen from the Company’s warehouse in City of Industry, California. During 2022 and 2023, we received recovery payments from our insurance policies of $50,000 and $400,000, respectively, resulting in a net casualty loss of $483,000 in 2022 and a casualty gain of $400,000 in 2023. We do not expect any further recovery of the loss.

Depreciation and Amortization. The year over year decrease in depreciation and amortization expenses in 2023 compared to 2022 is attributable to the disposition and impairment of certain assets during 2022 and 2023.

Loss from Operations. The year over year decrease in the Company’s loss from operations is mainly attributable to the reduction in impairment charges and other operating expenses as addressed above.

Interest and Other Income, Net. Interest and other income, net in 2023 and 2022 was primarily comprised of interest income related to our cash accounts, partially offset by interest expense.

Income Tax Benefit. We recorded income tax expense of $27,000 in 2023 and income tax benefit of $7,000 in 2022 (see Note 15 - Income Taxes to our Consolidated Financial Statements).

Liquidity and Capital Resources

As of December 31, 2023, we had $5,990,000 of cash and cash equivalents, and $5,498,000 of working capital. For the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, we incurred net losses of $4,384,000 and $21,941,000, respectively, and net cash used in operating activities was $2,993,000 and $5,934,000, respectively.

Net cash provided by investing activities for 2022 was $19,000, primarily related to the sale of property and equipment. There was no cash flow activity related to investing activities for 2023.

Net cash provided by financing activities for 2023 was attributable to a private placement resulting in net proceeds of $5,364,000 and warrant exercises resulting in net proceeds of $534,000 (see Note 9 - Capital Stock and Note 10 - Preferred Stock to our Consolidated Financial Statements). There was no cash flow related to financing activities for 2022.

Future Capital Requirements

We believe that our existing cash and cash equivalents will be sufficient to fund our operations and meet our working capital requirements for at least the next 12 months from the filing date of this Report with the SEC. We believe additional capital will be required, in the long-term, to fund operations and provide growth capital including potential strategic alternatives and investments in technology, product development and sales and marketing. To access capital to fund operations or provide growth capital, we will need to raise capital in one or more debt and/or equity offerings. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in raising necessary capital or that any such offering will be on terms acceptable to the Company. If we are unable to raise additional capital that may be needed on terms acceptable to us, it could have a material adverse effect on the Company.

See Note 14 - Commitments and Contingencies to our Consolidated Financial Statements for discussion regarding certain additional factors that could impact the Company’s liquidity in the future.

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Critical Accounting Policies

We prepare our Consolidated Financial Statements in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”). Our significant accounting policies are described in Note 1 - Business Description and Significant Accounting Policies to our Consolidated Financial Statements attached hereto. We believe the following critical accounting policies involve the most significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our Consolidated Financial Statements.

Revenue Recognition

The Company accounts for revenue in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 606.

The Company recognizes revenue using the five-step model as prescribed by Topic 606:

•Identification of the contract, or contracts, with a customer;

•Identification of the distinct performance obligations in the contract;

•Determination of the transaction price;

•Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; and

•Recognition of revenue when or as the Company satisfies a performance obligation.

The Company’s managed videoconferencing services are offered to our customers on either a usage basis or on a subscription basis. Our network services are offered to our customers on a subscription basis. Revenue for these services is generally recognized on a monthly basis as services are performed. Revenue related to professional services is recognized at the time the services are performed. The costs associated with obtaining a customer contract are deferred on our consolidated balance sheet and amortized over the expected life of the customer contract. There was no deferred revenue related to Managed Services as of December 31, 2023. During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company recorded $1,000 of revenue that was included in deferred revenue as of December 31, 2022. During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company recorded $7,000 of revenue that was included in deferred revenue as of December 31, 2021.

The Company’s visual collaboration products are composed of hardware and embedded software sold as a complete package, and generally include installation and maintenance services. Revenue for hardware and software is recognized upon shipment to the customer. Installation revenue is recognized upon completion of installation, which also triggers the beginning of recognition of revenue for maintenance services which range from one to three years. Revenue is recognized over time for maintenance services. Licensing agreements are for the Company’s core technology platform, g-speak, and are generally one year in length. Revenue for these services is recognized ratably over the service period. Deferred revenue, as of December 31, 2023, totaled $158,000 as certain performance obligations were not satisfied as of this date. During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company recorded $435,000 of revenue that was included in deferred revenue as of December 31, 2022. During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company recorded $776,000 of revenue that was included in deferred revenue as of December 31, 2021.

Revenue recorded over time for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 was $516,000 and $970,000, respectively. Revenue recorded at a period in time for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 was $3,294,000 and $4,506,000, respectively.

Long-Lived Assets and Intangible Assets

Intangible Assets

Intangible assets are accounted for in accordance with ASC Topic 350 “Intangibles - Goodwill and Other” (“ASC Topic 350”), and intangible assets with finite lives are amortized using the straight-line method over the estimated economic lives of the assets, which initially ranged from five to twelve years. Intangible assets, net of accumulated amortization totaled zero and $604,000 as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

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Operating Lease Right-of-use-assets

Right-of-use Assets are accounted for in accordance with ASC Topic 842 “Leases” (“ASC Topic 842”), and are amortized using a straight-line method over the estimated life of the lease. Right-of-use assets, net totaled $17,000 and $142,000, as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

During 2022 and 2023, the Company leased facilities for office space and a warehouse under non-cancellable operating leases for its U.S. locations, and accounts for these leases in accordance with ASC-842. Operating lease right-of-use assets and liabilities are recognized at commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the expected lease term. Right-of-use assets represent our right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and lease liabilities represent our obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Since our lease arrangements do not provide an implicit rate, we use our estimated incremental borrowing rate for the expected remaining lease term at commencement date in determining the present value of future lease payments.

Impairment

The Company assesses the impairment of our long-lived assets subject to amortization when events and circumstances indicate that the carrying value of the assets might not be recoverable. The determination of related estimated useful lives and whether or not these assets are impaired involves significant judgments, related primarily to the future profitability and/or future value of the assets. Changes in the Company’s strategic plan and/or other-than-temporary changes in market conditions could significantly impact these judgments and could require adjustments to recorded asset balances. Long-lived assets are evaluated for impairment whenever an event or change in circumstances has occurred that could have a significant adverse effect on the fair value of long-lived assets.

During the year ended December 31, 2023, we considered the declines in revenue for the Collaboration Products reporting segment and the decline in the Company’s market capitalization to be triggering events for an impairment test of our long-lived and intangible assets for this reporting unit. Based on the corresponding recoverability tests of the asset group for this reporting unit, it was determined that the carrying value exceeded the gross cash flows of the asset group. The recoverability tests consisted of comparing the estimated undiscounted cash flows expected to be generated by those assets to the respective carrying amounts, and involves significant judgements and assumptions, related primarily to the future revenue and profitability of the assets.

During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company recorded impairment charges of $61,000 on property and equipment assets.

For the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company recorded impairment charges of $259,000 on purchased intangible assets. See Note 6 - Intangible Assets and Goodwill for further discussion. The Company recorded impairment Charges of $5,133,000 to purchased intangible assets for the year ended December 31, 2022.

We tested goodwill for impairment on an annual basis, on September 30th of each year, unless events occurred or circumstances changed indicating that the fair value of the goodwill may be below its carrying amount. During the year ended December 31, 2022, we considered the sustained decline in our stock price to be a triggering event for an interim goodwill impairment test, as of both March 31, 2022 and June 30, 2022. To determine the fair value of the reporting unit for the goodwill impairment test, we used a weighted average of the discounted cash flow method and market-based method.

During the year ended December 31, 2022, we recorded impairment charges of $7,367,000 against goodwill, reducing the goodwill on our Consolidated Balance Sheets to zero.

Right-of-use assets are tested for impairment using guidance from ASC Topic 360. For the year ended December 31, 2023, did not record any impairment charges on right-of-use-assets. The Company recorded aggregate impairment charges of $179,000 on two right-of-use assets for the year ended December 31, 2022.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, we had no off-balance sheet arrangements.

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Recent Accounting Pronouncements

See the sections titled “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies-Recently adopted accounting pronouncements” and “Recent accounting pronouncements not yet adopted” in Note 1 - Business Description and Significant Accounting Policies to our Consolidated Financial Statements for more information.

Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

Not applicable.

Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

The information required by this Item 8 is incorporated by reference herein from Item 15, Part IV, of this Report.

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

None.

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures

Disclosure Controls and Procedures

The Company’s management, with the participation of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of December 31, 2023. Based on such evaluation, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of December 31, 2023, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified by the SEC’s rules and forms and are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

The Company’s management, with the participation of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has evaluated changes in internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that occurred during the quarter ended December 31, 2023 and have concluded that no change has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

The Company’s management is responsible for establishing and maintaining an adequate system of internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f). Our internal control system was designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of Consolidated Financial Statements for external purposes, in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Because of inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with policies and procedures may deteriorate.

The Company’s management, including the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023 based on the 2013 framework in Internal Control – Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”). The COSO framework summarizes each of the components of a company’s internal control system, including (i) the control environment, (ii) risk assessment, (iii) control activities, (iv) information and communication, and (v) monitoring. Based on this evaluation, the Company’s management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2023.

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Item 9B. Other Information

None.

Item 9C. Disclosures Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections

Not applicable.

PART III

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors currently consists of five directors. The current Board members include four independent directors and our chief executive officer. The core responsibility of our Board of Directors is to exercise its business judgment to act in what it reasonably believes to be in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders. Further, members of the Board fulfill their responsibilities consistent with their fiduciary duty to the stockholders, and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. The primary responsibilities of the Board include:

•Oversight of management performance and assurance that stockholder interests are served;

•Oversight of the Company’s business affairs and long-term strategy; and

•Monitoring adherence to the Company’s standards and policies, including, among other things, policies governing internal controls over financial reporting.

Our Board of Directors conducts its business through meetings of the Board and through activities of the standing committees, as further described below. The Board and each of the standing committees meet throughout the year and also holds special meetings and acts by written consent from time to time, as appropriate. Board agendas include regularly scheduled executive sessions of the independent directors to meet without the presence of management. The Board has delegated various responsibilities and authority to different committees of the Board, as described below. Members of the Board have access to all of our members of management outside of Board meetings.

Our Board of Directors met and/or acted by written consent ten times during the year ended December 31, 2023. During this period, each director attended 75% or more of the aggregate of (i) the total number of meetings of the Board of Directors held during the period for which he/she was a director and (ii) the total number of meetings of committees of the Board of Directors on which he served, held during the period for which he/she served. The Company does not have a policy with regard to directors’ attendance at our annual meetings of stockholders.

The following table sets forth information with respect to our Board of Directors as of the date of this Report.


Name	Age	Position with Company
Jason Adelman (1)(2)(3)	54	Director
Jonathan Schechter(1)(2)(3)(4)	49	Director, Chairman of the Compensation Committee
Peter Holst	55	Director, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer
Robert Weinstein (1)(3)(4)	63	Director, Chairman of the Audit Committee
Deborah Meredith (2)(3)	64	Director, Chairman of the Nominating Committee
(1) Member of the Audit Committee
(2) Member of the Compensation Committee
(3) Member of the Nominating Committee
(4) Appointed pursuant to that certain Securities Purchase Agreement, dated March 30,2023, by and among the Company and the investors named therein.

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Biographies for Board of Directors

Jason Adelman, Director. Mr. Adelman joined our Board of Directors in July 2019. Mr. Adelman is the Founder and Managing Member of Burnham Hill Capital Group, LLC, a privately held financial advisory firm, and serves as Managing Member of Cipher Capital Partners LLC, a private investment fund. Mr. Adelman also serves as a member of the board of directors of Trio-Tech International (Nasdaq Capital Market: TRT). Prior to founding Burnham Hill Capital Group, LLC in 2003, Mr. Adelman served as Managing Director of Investment Banking at H.C. Wainwright and Co., Inc. Mr. Adelman graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Economics, cum laude, and from Cornell Law School with a J.D.

In considering Mr. Adelman as a director of the Company, the Board reviewed, among other qualifications, his experience and expertise in finance, accounting, banking and management. Based on his experience with Burnham Hill Capital Group LLC, Cipher Capital Partners LLC, and H. C. Wainwright & Co. Mr. Adelman qualifies as an "audit committee financial expert" under the applicable SEC rules and accordingly contributes to the Board of Directors his understanding of generally accepted accounting principles and his skills in auditing, as well as in analyzing and evaluating financial statements.

Jonathan Schechter, Director. Mr. Schechter joined our Board of Directors in May 2023. Mr. Schechter currently serves as a partner of The Special Equities Group, a division of Dawson James Securities, Inc., a full-service investment bank specializing in healthcare, biotechnology, technology, and clean-tech sectors, since April 2021. Mr. Schechter is one of the founding partners of The Special Equities Opportunity Fund, a long-only fund that makes direct investments in micro-cap companies and has served in this capacity since August 2019. He currently serves on the board of directors of Synaptogenix, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company (Nasdaq: SNPX), and previously served as a director of DropCar, Inc. Mr. Schechter also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of PharmaCyte Biotech, Inc. (Nasdaq: PMCB), a biotechnology company developing pharmaceutical products. He has extensive experience analyzing and evaluating the financial statements of public companies. Mr. Schechter earned his A.B. in Public Policy/Political Science from Duke University and his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.

In considering Mr. Schechter as a director of the Company, the Board reviewed, among other qualifications, his experience and expertise in finance and banking. Based on his experience with The Special Equities Group, Mr. Schechter qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” under the applicable SEC rules and accordingly contributes to the Board of Directors his understanding of capital markets, as well as in analyzing and evaluating financial statements.

Peter Holst, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to being named President and CEO in January 2013, Mr. Holst served as the Company’s Senior Vice President for Business Development since October 1, 2012. Mr. Holst has served as a director of the Company since January 2013 and served as Chairman of the Board from July 2019 to December 15, 2021. Mr. Holst has currently served as Chairman of the Board since May 28, 2023. Mr. Holst has more than 28 years of experience in the collaboration industry. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Holst served as the Chief Executive Officer of Affinity VideoNet, Inc., and as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Raindance Communications. Mr. Holst holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Ottawa.

In considering Mr. Holst as a director of the Company, the Board reviewed his extensive knowledge and expertise in the communication services industry, and the leadership he has shown in his positions with prior companies.

Robert Weinstein, Director. Mr. Weinstein joined our Board of Directors in May 2023. Mr. Weinstein is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Synaptogenix, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company pursuing pharmaceutical treatments for neurological diseases (Nasdaq: SNPX) following its spin-off from Neurotrope, Inc. where he was Chief Financial Officer since October 2013. In addition, Mr. Weinstein performs work as a consultant for Petros Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (Nasdaq: PTPI) which is the surviving company from the merger of Metuchen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on men’s health, and Neurotrope, Inc. He has extensive accounting and finance experience, spanning almost 40 years, as a public accountant, investment banker, healthcare private equity fund principal and chief financial officer. From September 2011 to the present, Mr. Weinstein has also been an independent accounting and finance consultant for several healthcare companies in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Mr. Weinstein also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Xwell, Inc. (Formerly XpresSpa Group, Inc.) (Nasdaq: XWEL), a health and wellness company whose core asset, XpresSpa, is a leading airport retailer of spa services, related health and wellness products and bio-surveillance on behalf of the US Center for Disease Control (CDC), and PharmaCyte Biotech, Inc. (Nasdaq: PMCB), a biotechnology company developing pharmaceutical products. Mr. Weinstein received an MBA degree in finance and international business from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive), and received his BS degree in accounting from the State University of New York at Albany.

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In considering Mr. Weinstein as a director of the Company, the Board reviewed his extensive expertise and knowledge regarding finance and accounting matters, as well as compensation, risk assessment and corporate governance. Mr. Weinstein qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” under the applicable SEC rules and accordingly contributes to the Board of Directors his understanding of generally accepted accounting principles and his skills in auditing, as well as in analyzing and evaluating financial statements.

Deborah Meredith, Director. Ms. Meredith joined our Board of Directors in August 2021. Ms. Meredith currently serves as a board member, advisor and consultant to several high-tech companies with extensive experience in strategic roles with privately-held start-up companies such as Proofpoint, Aviatrix, Qventus, Alation and Kinsa Health. Ms. Meredith has more than three decades of experience working hands-on with company founders to assemble world-class teams, architect software products and establish a roadmap for operational success. Ms. Meredith earned a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree in both computer science and mathematics from the University of Michigan.

In considering Ms. Meredith as a director of the Company, the Board reviewed her experience and expertise in the technology industry and the leadership she has shown in her positions with prior companies.

Director Independence

Our Board of Directors has determined that each of our current directors, other than Mr. Holst, qualifies as “independent” in accordance with the rules of the Nasdaq Capital Market (“Nasdaq”). Because Mr. Holst is an employee of the Company, he does not qualify as independent.

The Nasdaq independence definition includes a series of objective tests, such as that the director is neither an executive officer nor an employee of the Company and has not engaged in various types of business dealings with the Company. In addition, as further required by the Nasdaq rules, the Board has made a subjective determination as to each independent director that no relationship exists which, in the opinion of the Board, would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director. In making these determinations, the directors reviewed and discussed information provided by the directors and the Company with regard to each director’s business and personal activities as they may relate to the Company and the Company’s management, including each of the matters set forth under “Part III, Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence.” below.

Board Committees

The Board has an audit committee, a compensation committee, and a nominating committee, and may form special committees as is required from time to time. Each of the committees regularly report on their activities and actions to the full Board. The charters for the audit committee, the compensation committee, and the nominating committee are available on the Company’s website at www.oblong.com. The contents of our website are not incorporated by reference into this document for any purpose.

Audit Committee

The audit committee currently consists of Robert Weinstein (chair), Jason Adelman, and Jonathan Schechter. Our Board of Directors has determined that all members of the audit committee are “independent” within the meaning of the corporate governance of Nasdaq Capital Market and the SEC rules governing audit committees and “financially literate” for purposes of applicable Nasdaq Capital Market listing standards. In addition, our Board of Directors has determined that each of Messrs. Weinstein, Adelman, and Schechter has the accounting and related financial management expertise to satisfy the requirements of an “audit committee financial expert,” as determined pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC. The audit committee consults and meets with our independent registered public accounting firm, Chief Financial Officer and accounting personnel, reviews potential conflict of interest situations where appropriate, and reports and makes recommendations to the full Board of Directors regarding such matters. The audit committee met four times during the year ended December 31, 2023.

Compensation Committee

Our compensation committee currently consists of Jonathan Schechter (chair), Jason Adelman, and Deborah Meredith. Each member of the compensation committee meets the applicable independence requirements of The Nasdaq Capital Market. The compensation committee met and/or acted by written consent two times during the year ended December 31, 2023.

The compensation committee is responsible for establishing and administering our executive compensation policies. The role of the compensation committee is to (i) formulate, evaluate and approve compensation of the Company’s directors,

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executive officers and key employees, (ii) oversee all compensation programs involving the use of the Company’s stock and (iii) produce, if required under applicable securities laws, a report on executive compensation for inclusion in the Company’s proxy statement for its annual meeting of stockholders. The duties and responsibilities of the compensation committee under its charter include:

•annually reviewing and making recommendations to the Board with respect to compensation of directors, executive officers and key employees of the Company;

•annually reviewing and approving corporate goals and objectives relevant to Chief Executive Officer compensation, evaluating the Chief Executive Officer’s performance in light of those goals and objectives, and recommending to the Board the Chief Executive Officer’s compensation levels based on this evaluation;

•reviewing competitive practices and trends to determine the adequacy of the executive compensation program;

•approving and overseeing compensation programs for executive officers involving the use of the Company’s stock;

•approving and administering cash incentives for executives, including oversight of achievement of performance objectives, and funding for executive incentive plans;

•annually performing a self-evaluation on the performance of the compensation committee; and

•making regular reports to the Board concerning the activities of the compensation committee.

When appropriate, the compensation committee may, in carrying out its responsibilities, form and delegate authority to subcommittees. The Chief Executive Officer plays a role in determining the compensation of our other executive officers by evaluating the performance of those executive officers. The Chief Executive Officer’s evaluations are then reviewed by the compensation committee. This process leads to a recommendation for any changes in salary, bonus terms and equity awards, if any, based on performance, which recommendations are then reviewed and approved by the compensation committee.

Nominating Committee

Our nominating committee currently consists of Deborah Meredith (chair), Jason Adelman, Jonathan Schechter, and Robert Weinstein. Each member of the nominating committee meets the independence requirements of the Nasdaq Capital Market. The nominating committee is responsible for assessing the performance of our Board of Directors and making recommendations to our Board regarding nominees for the Board. The nominating committee met and/or acted by written consent two times during the year ended December 31, 2023.

The nominating committee considers qualified candidates to serve as a member of our Board of Directors that are suggested by our stockholders. Nominees recommended by stockholders will be given appropriate consideration and evaluated in the same manner as other nominees. Stockholders can suggest qualified candidates for director by writing to our Corporate Secretary at 110 16th Street, Suite 1400-1024, Denver, CO 80202. Stockholder submissions that are received in accordance with our by-laws and that meet the criteria outlined in the nominating committee charter are forwarded to the members of the nominating committee for review. Stockholder submissions must include the following information:

•a statement that the writer is our stockholder and is proposing a candidate for our Board of Directors for consideration by the nominating committee;

•the name of and contact information for the candidate;

•a statement of the candidate’s business and educational experience;

•information regarding each of the factors set forth in the nominating committee charter sufficient to enable the nominating committee to evaluate the candidate;

•a statement detailing any relationship between the candidate and any of our customers, suppliers or competitors;

•detailed information about any relationship or understanding between the proposing stockholder and the candidate; and

•a statement that the candidate is willing to be considered and willing to serve as our director if nominated and elected.

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In considering potential new directors, the nominating committee will review individuals from various disciplines and backgrounds. Among the qualifications to be considered in the selection of candidates are broad experience in business, finance or administration; familiarity with national and international business matters; familiarity with our industry; and prominence and reputation. While there is no formal policy with regard to consideration of diversity in identifying director nominees, the nominating committee will consider diversity in business experience, professional expertise, gender and ethnic background, along with various other factors when evaluating director nominees. The nominating committee will also consider whether the individual has the time available to devote to the work of our Board of Directors and one or more of its committees.

The nominating committee will also review the activities and associations of each candidate to ensure that there is no legal impediment, conflict of interest or other consideration that might hinder or prevent service on our Board of Directors. In making its selection, the nominating committee will bear in mind that the foremost responsibility of a director of a corporation is to represent the interests of the stockholders as a whole. The nominating committee will periodically review and reassess the adequacy of its charter and propose any changes to the Board of Directors for approval.

Contacting the Board of Directors

Any stockholder who desires to contact our Board of Directors, committees of the Board of Directors and individual directors may do so by writing to: Oblong, Inc., 110 16th Street, Suite 1400-1024, Denver, CO 80202, Attention: David Clark, Corporate Secretary. Mr. Clark will direct such communication to the appropriate persons.

Board Leadership Structure and Role in Risk Oversight

Mr. Holst has served as the Chairman of the Company's Board of Directors since May 2023, when Mr. Blumberg resigned from the Board of Directors. Mr. Holst has served as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer since January 2013 and served as the Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors from July 2019 up until our 2021 annual meeting of stockholders (December 16, 2021).

To ensure a strong and independent Board, as discussed herein, the Board has affirmatively determined that all directors of the Company, other than Mr. Holst, are independent within the meaning of the Nasdaq Capital Market listing standards currently in effect. Our Corporate Governance Guidelines provide that non-management directors shall meet in regular executive session without management present.

The Board has an active role, directly and through its committees, in the oversight of the Company’s risk management efforts. The Board carries out this oversight role through several levels of review. The Board regularly reviews and discusses with members of management information regarding the management of risks inherent in the operation of the Company’s business and the implementation of the Company’s strategic plan, including the Company’s risk mitigation efforts.

Each of the Board’s committees also oversees the management of the Company’s risks that are under each committee’s areas of responsibility. For example, the audit committee oversees management of accounting, auditing, external reporting, internal controls and cash investment risks. The nominating committee oversees and assesses the performance of the Board and makes recommendations to the Board from time to time regarding nominees for the Board. The compensation committee oversees risks arising from compensation practices and policies. While each committee has specific responsibilities for oversight of risk, the Board is regularly informed by each committee about such risks. In this manner the Board is able to coordinate its risk oversight.

We have adopted a code of conduct and ethics, as amended effective October 12, 2015, that applies to all of our employees, directors and officers, including our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and our finance team. The full text of our code of conduct and ethics (as amended) is posted on our website at www.oblong.com and will be made available to stockholders without charge, upon request, in writing to the Corporate Secretary at 110 16th Street, Suite 1400 - 1024, Denver, CO 80202. Disclosure regarding any amendments to, or waivers from, provisions of the code of conduct and ethics that apply to our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller or person performing similar functions will be included in a Current Report on Form 8-K within four business days following the date of the amendment or waiver, unless website posting of such amendments or waivers is then permitted by the rules of the national securities exchange on which the Company trades.

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Biographies for Executive Officers

Peter Holst, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). See “Biographies for Board of Directors” above for Mr. Holst’s biography.

David Clark, Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Clark, 55, joined the Company in March 2013 as Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”). Mr. Clark has more than 30 years of experience in finance and accounting. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Clark served as Vice President of Finance, Treasurer and acting CFO for Allos Therapeutics, a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, and as CFO of Seurat Company (formerly XOR, Inc.), an e-commerce managed services company. Mr. Clark started his career with seven years in the audit practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Mr. Clark is an active Certified Public Accountant and received a Master of Accountancy and a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Denver.

Family Relationships

There are no family relationships between the officers and directors of the Company.

Legal Proceedings

During the past ten years none of our directors or executive officers was involved in any legal proceedings described in subparagraph (f) of Item 401 of Regulation S-K.

Item 11. Executive Compensation

Director Compensation

The Company’s director compensation plan provides that non-employee directors are entitled to receive annually: (i) a grant of restricted stock or restricted stock units (“RSUs”) awarded under the Company’s 2019 Equity Incentive Plan (pro-rated as necessary for the period of service from the director’s date of appointment to the Board of Directors until the next annual meeting of stockholders); and (ii) a retainer fee of $20,000. The annual fee is payable in equal quarterly installments on the first business day following the end of the calendar quarter, in cash or shares of restricted stock, as chosen by the director, on an annual basis on or before December 31 of the applicable fiscal year. The annual equity grants to directors are normally made as of the date of the annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders. Grants of restricted stock or RSUs vest on the first anniversary of the grant date or earlier upon the occurrence of certain termination events or upon a change in control of the Company. Vested RSUs are settled in shares of Common Stock on a 1-for-1 basis upon the earliest of (i) the tenth anniversary of the grant date of the RSUs, (ii) a change in control (as defined in the award agreement) of the Company and (iii) the date of a director’s separation from service.

The Company’s director compensation plan provides that non-employee directors are also entitled to receive annually: (i) an additional cash payment of $20,000 to the chairman of its Board of Directors, (ii) an additional cash payment of $10,000 to the chairperson of its audit committee, (iii) an additional cash payment of $5,000 to each of the chairpersons of its compensation committee and nominating committee, and (iv) an additional cash payment of $3,000 to each non-chair member of any standing committee, in each case payable in equal quarterly installments in arrears. In addition, the Company may establish special committees of the Board from time to time and provide for additional retainers in connection therewith.

The following table represents compensation for the Company’s non-employee directors during the year ended December 31, 2023. All compensation for Peter Holst, the Company’s President and CEO, during the year ended December 31, 2023 is included in the Summary Compensation Table under “Executive Compensation” below.


Name	Cash Fees Earned ($)	Stock Awards($)	Total($)
Jason Adelman	32,000	95,000	127,000
Matthew Blumberg	19,000	95,000	114,000
James S. Lusk	15,000	95,000	110,000
Deborah Meredith	26,000	95,000	121,000
Jonathan Schechter	17,000	None	17,000
Robert Weinstein	17,000	None	17,000

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No equity awards were outstanding, as of December 31, 2023, for any director.

Executive Compensation

Summary Compensation Table

The following table sets forth, for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, the compensation awarded to, paid to, or earned by: Peter Holst, Chairman, President and CEO; David Clark, CFO, Treasurer and Secretary. No other executive officer earned more than $100,000 during the year ended December 31, 2023 or 2022, so the Company only has two named executive officers for these periods.


Name and Principal Positions	Year	Salary ($)	Bonus ($)	Stock Awards ($)	All Other Compensation ($)		Total ($)
Peter Holst	2023	295,000	394,000	—	10,000	(1)	699,000
Director, President and CEO	2022	295,000	147,000	—	9,000	(1)	451,000

David Clark	2023	260,000	173,000	—	10,000	(1)	443,000
CFO, Treasurer and Secretary	2022	260,000	65,000	—	8,000	(1)	333,000


(1) Represents matching contributions under the Company’s 401(k) Plan for Mr. Holst of $10,000 for 2023 and $9,000 for 2022; for Mr. Clark of $10,000 for 2023 and $8,000 for 2022.

Outstanding Equity Awards at 2023 Fiscal Year-End

No equity awards were outstanding for our named executive officers at December 31, 2023.

401(k) Plan

The Company maintains a tax-qualified 401(k) plan on behalf of its eligible employees, including its named executive officers. Pursuant to the terms of the plan, for fiscal years 2023 and 2022, eligible employees may defer up to 80% of their salary each year, and the Company matched 50% of an employee’s contributions on the first 6% of the employee’s salary. This matching contribution vests over four years.

Agreements with Named Executive Officers

We have entered into employment agreements with our current named executive officers. All named executive officers, whether or not subject to an employment agreement, are “at will” employees of the Company.

Peter Holst Employment Agreement.

On January 13, 2013, the Board appointed Peter Holst as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, and as a member of the Board. In connection with his appointment, the Company entered into an employment agreement with Mr. Holst, which was subsequently amended and restated as of January 28, 2016 and as of July 19, 2019 (as amended and restated, the “Holst Employment Agreement”). Pursuant to the Holst Employment Agreement, Mr. Holst receives an annual base salary of $295,000 and is eligible to receive an annual incentive bonus equal to 100% of his base salary, at the discretion of the compensation committee of the Board based on meeting certain financial and non-financial goals.

Under the terms of the Holst Employment Agreement, if Mr. Holst’s employment is terminated outside of a “change in control” (as defined in the Holst Employment Agreement) (i) by the Company without “cause” or by Mr. Holst for “good reason” (as such terms are defined therein) or (ii) as a result of the expiration of the term of the Holst Employment Agreement caused by the Company’s election not to renew such agreement, then he will be entitled to receive the following payments and benefits, subject to his execution and non-revocation of an effective general release of claims in favor of the Company:

•12 months’ base salary, payable in equal monthly installments in accordance with the Company’s normal payroll practices;

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•100% of his maximum annual target bonus payable for the calendar year in which such termination occurs;

•100% accelerated vesting of Mr. Holst’s then-unvested shares of restricted stock and RSUs (if any); and

•payment (or reimbursement) of the COBRA premiums for continuation of coverage for Mr. Holst and his eligible dependents under the Company’s then existing medical, dental and prescription insurance plans for a period of 12 months.

In addition to the above payments and benefits, in the event that Mr. Holst’s employment is terminated during the 18-month period following a “change in control” (i) by the Company without “cause” or by Mr. Holst for “good reason” or (ii) as a result of the expiration of the term of the Holst Employment Agreement caused by the Company’s election not to renew such agreement, then he will be entitled to receive the following payments and benefits, subject to his execution and non-revocation of an effective general release of claims in favor of the Company:

•24 months’ base salary, payable in equal monthly installments in accordance with the Company’s normal payroll practices;

•100% of his maximum annual target bonus payable for the calendar year in which such termination occurs;

•a pro-rated portion of his maximum annual target bonus for the calendar year in which the effective date of termination occurs;

•80% accelerated vesting of Mr. Holst’s then-unvested shares of restricted stock and RSUs (if any); and

In consideration of the payments and benefits under the Holst Employment Agreement, Mr. Holst is restricted from engaging in competitive activities for 12 months after the termination of his employment, as well as prohibited from soliciting the Company’s clients and employees and from disclosing the Company’s confidential information.

The Holst Employment Agreement contains a “best after-tax benefit” provision, which provides that, to the extent that any amounts payable under the Holst Employment Agreement would be subject to the federal tax levied on certain “excess parachute payments” under Section 4999 of the Code, the Company will either pay Mr. Holst the full amount due under the Holst Employment Agreement or, alternatively, reduce his payments to the extent that no Section 4999 excise tax would be due, whichever provides the highest net after-tax benefit to Mr. Holst.

David Clark Employment Agreement.

On March 25, 2013, the Company entered into an employment agreement with David Clark in connection with his appointment as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, which was subsequently amended and restated on July 19, 2019 (as amended and restated, the “Clark Employment Agreement”). Pursuant to the Clark Employment Agreement, Mr. Clark receives an annual base salary of $260,000 and is eligible to receive an annual incentive bonus equal to 50% of his base salary, at the discretion of the compensation committee of the Board, based on meeting certain financial and non-financial goals.

Under the terms of the Clark Employment Agreement, if Mr. Clark’s employment is terminated outside of a “change in control” (as defined in the Clark Employment Agreement) (i) by the Company without “cause” or by Mr. Clark with or without “good reason” (as such terms are defined therein) or (ii) as a result of the expiration of the term of the Clark Employment Agreement caused by the Company’s election not to renew such agreement, then he will be entitled to receive the following payments and benefits, subject to his execution and non-revocation of an effective general release of claims in favor of the Company:

•Six months’ base salary, payable in equal monthly installments in accordance with the Company’s normal payroll practices;

•50% of his maximum annual target bonus payable for the calendar year in which such termination occurs;

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•a pro-rated portion of his maximum annual target bonus for the calendar year in which the effective date of termination occurs;

•100% accelerated vesting of Mr. Clark’s then-unvested shares of restricted stock and RSUs (if any); and

•payment (or reimbursement) of the COBRA premiums for continuation of coverage for Mr. Clark and his eligible dependents under the Company’s then existing medical, dental and prescription insurance plans for a period of six months.

In addition to the above payments and benefits, in the event that Mr. Clark’s employment is terminated during the 18-month period following a “change in control” by the Company without “cause” or by Mr. Clark for “good reason,” then he will also be entitled to receive (i) increased severance equal to 18 months’ base salary, (ii) 100% of his maximum annual target bonus payable for the calendar year in which such termination occurs, and (iii) extended payment (or reimbursement) of the COBRA premiums for 12 months. In such event, Mr. Clark will be entitled to receive 80% accelerated vesting of his then-unvested shares of restricted stock and RSUs (if any).

In consideration of the payments and benefits under the Clark Employment Agreement, Mr. Clark is restricted from engaging in competitive activities for six months after the termination of his employment, as well as prohibited from soliciting the Company’s clients and employees and from disclosing the Company’s confidential information.

Potential Payments to Named Executive Officers upon Termination or Change-in-Control

No named executive officer holds outstanding equity incentive awards, and no named executive officer is entitled to accelerated vesting in connection with a termination for cause. In accordance with the terms of the Company’s 2019 Equity Incentive Plan, the Company is given authority to accelerate the timing of the exercise/vesting provisions of awards under such plan in the event of certain change in control or other corporate transactions.

See “Agreements with Named Executive Officers” above for a discussion of certain payments the Company could be required to make upon the termination of a Named Executive Officer.

Pay Versus Performance

In August 2022, the SEC adopted final rules to require companies to disclose information about the relationship between executive compensation actually paid and certain financial performance of the company. The information below is provided pursuant to Item 402(v) of SEC Regulation S-K with respect to "smaller reporting companies" as that term is defined in Item 10(f)(1) of SEC Regulation S-K.


(a) Year	(b) Summary Comp Table Total for PEO ($)(1)		(c) Comp. Actually Paid to PEO ($)(2)		(d) Average Summary Comp. Table for Non-PEO NEOs ($)(3)		(e) Average Comp. Actually Paid to Non-PEO NEOs ($)(4)		(f) Value of Initial Fixed $100 Investment Based On Total Shareholder Return ($)(5)		(g) Net Income ($)(6)
(a) Year	(b) Summary Comp Table Total for PEO ($)(1)		(c) Comp. Actually Paid to PEO ($)(2)		(d) Average Summary Comp. Table for Non-PEO NEOs ($)(3)		(e) Average Comp. Actually Paid to Non-PEO NEOs ($)(4)				(g) Net Income ($)(6)
2021	$	455,000	$	455,000	$	464,000	$	353,000	$	20.04	$	(9,755,000)
2022	$	451,000	$	451,000	$	210,000	$	135,000	$	2.29	$	(21,941,000)
2023	$	699,000	$	699,000	$	443,000	$	443,000	$	0.26	$	(4,384,000)

(1) The dollar amounts reported in column (b) are the amounts of total compensation reported for Mr. Holst (Chief Executive Officer) for each corresponding year in the "Total" column of the Summary Compensation Table. See "Executive Compensation - Summary Compensation Table.

(2) The dollar amounts reported in column (c) represent the amount of "compensation actually paid" to Mr. Holst as computed in accordance with Item 402(v)(2)(iii) of SEC Regulation S-K, which prescribes certain specified additions and subtractions from the amount in column (b). In accordance with the requirements of Item 401(v)(2)(iii) of Regulation S-K, there were no adjustments required to be made to Mr. Holst's total compensation for each year to determine the compensation actually paid.

(3) The dollar amounts reported in column (d) represent the average amounts reported for the Company's named executive officers as a group (excluding Mr. Holst) in the "Total" column of the Summary Compensation Table in each applicable

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year. The names of each of the named executive officers (excluding Mr. Holst) included for purposes of calculating the average amounts in each applicable year are as follows: (a) for 2023, Mr. Clark, (b) for 2022, Mr. Clark and Pete Hawkes (who separated from service with the company on March 4, 2022), and (c) for 2021, Mr. Clark and Mr. Hawkes.

(4) The dollar amounts reported in column (e) represent the average amount of "compensation actually paid" to the named executive officers as a group (excluding Mr. Holst) as computed in accordance with Item 402(v)(2)(iii) of SEC Regulation S-K, which prescribes certain specified additions and subtractions from the amount in column (d). In accordance with the requirements of Item 401(v) of Regulation S-K, the following adjustments were made to average total compensation for the named executive officers as a group (excluding Mr. Holst) for each year to determine the compensation actually paid:

•For 2022:

◦We subtracted $75,000 reflecting the average for the named executive officers as a group (excluding Mr. Holst) of awards granted to Mr. Hawkes in prior fiscal years for which there was a failure to meet the applicable vesting conditions during 2022.

•For 2021:

◦We subtracted $186,000 reflecting the average of stock option awards to Mr. Hawkes during 2021 for the named executive officer's as a group (excluding Mr. Holst); and

◦We added $75,000 reflecting the average of the named executive officers as a group (excluding Mr. Holst) of the fair value during 2021 of stock options issued in 2021 to Mr. Hawkes that were outstanding and unvested at the end of fiscal 2021.

(5) Total Shareholder Return is determined based on the value of an initial fixed investment in the Company’s common stock of $100 on December 31, 2020 and calculated in accordance with Item 201(e) of SEC Regulation S-K.

(6) The dollar amounts reported in column (g) represent the amount of net income reflected in our consolidated audited financial statements for the applicable year.

Analysis of the Information Presented in the Pay Versus Performance Table

The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company does not have a policy or practice regarding evaluating Total Shareholder Return as part of its determination of compensation decisions for the named executive officers. The Compensation Committee takes various factors into account in determining the competitiveness of its executive compensation. Over the past three fiscal years the Compensation Committee has recognized the significant time and effort required by the executive officers and others to manage the Company’s liquidity by raising capital while reducing operating expenses and cash used in operations, secure and maintain the Company’s listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market, and to source and evaluate merger and acquisition opportunities. To retain qualified executive management, the Compensation Committee increased salaries of named executive officers in July 2021 (the salaries of the named executive officers were last increased in 2014), and, in 2023, paid bonuses that were earned during fiscal year 2022 through April 2023. The current named executive officers last received equity awards in 2019. Mr. Hawkes was granted stock options in 2021.

All information provided above under the “Pay Versus Performance Information” heading will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference in any filing of our company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, whether made before or after the date hereof and irrespective of any general incorporation language in any such filing.

Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

The following table sets forth information regarding the beneficial ownership of our capital stock, as of March 8, 2024, by each of the following:

•each person (or group within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) known by us to own beneficially more than 5% of any class of our voting securities;

•the named executive officers set forth in the Summary Compensation Table under “Executive Compensation” above;

•each of our directors and director nominees; and

•all of our directors and executive officers as a group.

The amounts and percentages in the table below are based on 16,684,571 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding as of March 8, 2024. As used in this table, “beneficial ownership” means the sole or shared power to vote or direct the voting or to dispose or direct the disposition of any security. A person is considered the beneficial owner of securities that can be acquired within 60 days of such date through the exercise or conversion of any option, warrant or other derivative security. Shares of Common Stock subject to options, restricted stock units (“RSUs”), warrants or other derivative securities which are currently exercisable or convertible or are exercisable or convertible within such 60 days are considered outstanding for

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computing the ownership percentage of the person holding such options, RSUs, warrants or other derivative security, but are not considered outstanding for computing the ownership percentage of any other person.


	Common Stock
Name and Address of Beneficial Owners (1)	Amount and Nature of Beneficial Ownership (2)		Percent of Class
Named Executive Officers and Directors:
Peter Holst	21,733	(3)	0.1	%
David Clark	3,262	(4)	—	%
Jason Adelman	—	(5)	—	%
Jonathan Schechter	122,500	(6)	0.7	%
Robert Weinstein	—	(7)	—	%
Deborah Meredith	—	(8)	—	%
All directors and executive officers as a group (6 people)	147,495		0.9	%

Greater than 5% Owners:
None

(1) Unless otherwise noted, the address of each person listed is c/o Oblong, Inc., 110 16th Street, Suite 1400-1024, Denver, CO, 80202
(2) Unless otherwise indicated by footnote, the named persons have sole voting and investment power with respect to the shares of Common Stock beneficially owned.
(3) Includes 21,733 shares of Common Stock
(4) Includes 3,262 shares of Common Stock
(5) Based on ownership information from the Form 4 filed by Mr. Adelman with the SEC on October 25, 2023.
(6) Based on ownership information from the Form 3 filed by Mr. Schechter with the SEC on June 1, 2023. Represents warrants to purchase common stock of the issuer with an exercise price of $1.71 per share. The warrants expire on September 30, 2028.
(7) Based on ownership information from the Form 3 filed by Mr. Weinstein with the SEC on June 1, 2023.
(8) Based on ownership information from the Form 4 filed by Ms. Meredith with the SEC on June 20, 2023.

Equity Compensation Plan Information

The following table sets forth, as of December 31, 2023, information regarding our common stock that may be issued under the Company’s equity compensation plan:


Plan Category	Number of Securities to be Issued Upon Exercise of Outstanding Stock Options (a)	Weighted Average Exercise Price of Outstanding Stock Options (b)		Number of Securities to be Issued Upon Vesting of Outstanding Restricted Stock Units (c)	Number of Securities Remaining Available for Future Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans (Excluding Securities Reflected in Columns (a) & (c))
Equity compensation plans approved by security holders	10,000	$	49.00	—	3

Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence

Other than compensation arrangements for our directors and named executive officers, which are described elsewhere in this Annual Report, and as described below, there have been no transactions since January 1, 2022 to which we were a party or will be a party, in which:

•the amounts involved exceeded or will exceed the lesser of (1) $120,000 or (2) one percent of the average of our total assets at year-end for the last two completed fiscal years; and

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•any of our directors, executive officers or holders of more than 5% of our capital stock, or any member of the immediate family of, or person sharing the household with, the foregoing persons, had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.

One of our directors, Jonathan Schechter, is currently a partner at The Special Equities Group ("SEG"), a division of Dawson James Securities, Inc. In March 2023, prior to Mr. Schechter's appointment to our board, SEG acted as placement agent in connection with our private placement of shares of Series F Preferred Stock and warrants. In exchange for such services, we paid the placement agent a cash fee of approximately $511,000 (equal to 8% of the aggregate gross proceeds raised) and granted the placement agent warrants to purchase 306,433 shares of common stock at an initial exercise price of $1.71.

Policy on Future Related Party Transactions

Transactions with related parties, including the transactions referred to above, are reviewed and approved by independent members of the Board of Directors of the Company in accordance with the Company’s written Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.

Director Independence

See Item 10. Director Independence and Item 10. Board Leadership Structure and Role in Risk Oversight for information regarding the independence of our directors.

Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services

The audit committee, composed entirely of independent, non-employee members of the Board of Directors, appointed the firm of EisnerAmper LLP, Iselin, New Jersey (“EisnerAmper”), PCAOB identification number 274, as the independent registered public accounting firm for the audit of the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company and its subsidiaries for the fiscal years ending December 31, 2023 and 2022. As our independent registered public accounting firm, EisnerAmper audited our Consolidated Financial Statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023, reviewed the related interim quarters, and performed audit-related services and consultation in connection with various accounting and financial reporting matters. EisnerAmper may also perform certain non-audit services for our Company. The audit committee has determined that the provision of the services provided by EisnerAmper as set forth herein are compatible with maintaining EisnerAmper’s independence and the prohibitions on performing non-audit services set forth in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and relevant SEC rules.

Audit Fees

EisnerAmper, our principal accountant, billed us approximately $265,000 for professional services for the audit of our annual Consolidated Financial Statements for the 2023 fiscal year and the reviews of the Consolidated Financial Statements included in our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the 2023 fiscal year. EisnerAmper billed us $269,000 for professional services for the audit of our annual Consolidated Financial Statements for the 2022 fiscal year and the reviews of the Consolidated Financial Statements included in our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the 2022 fiscal year.

Audit-Related Fees

EisnerAmper did not bill us in the 2023 and 2022 fiscal years for any audit-related fees.

Tax Fees

EisnerAmper did not bill us in the 2023 and 2022 fiscal years for any professional services rendered for tax compliance, tax advice or tax planning.

All Other Fees

EisnerAmper did not bill us for products and services, other than the audit described above, during the 2023 and 2022 fiscal years.

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Audit Committee Pre-Approval Policy

The audit committee is required to pre-approve the engagement of EisnerAmper to perform audit and other services for the Company. Our procedures for the pre-approval by the audit committee of all services provided by EisnerAmper comply with SEC regulations regarding pre-approval of services. Services subject to these SEC requirements include audit services, audit-related services, tax services and other services. The audit engagement is specifically approved, and the auditors are retained by the audit committee. The audit committee also has adopted policies and procedures for pre-approving all non-audit work performed by EisnerAmper. In accordance with audit committee policy and the requirements of law, all services provided by EisnerAmper in the 2023 and 2022 fiscal years were pre-approved by the audit committee and all services to be provided by EisnerAmper will be pre-approved. Pre-approval includes audit services, audit-related services, tax services and other services. To avoid certain potential conflicts of interest, the law prohibits a publicly traded company from obtaining certain non-audit services from its auditing firm. We obtain these services from other service providers as needed.

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PART IV

Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules

A. The following documents are filed as part of this Report:

1. Consolidated Financial Statements:


			Page
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm			F-1
Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2023 and 2022			F-3
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022			F-4
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022			F-5
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022			F-6
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements			F-8

2. Financial Statement Schedules have been omitted since they are either not required, not applicable, or the information is otherwise included.

3. Exhibits:

A list of exhibits required to be filed as part of this Report is set forth in the Exhibit Index on page 50 of this Form 10-K, which immediately precedes such exhibits, and is incorporated by reference.

Item 16. Form 10-K Summary

None.

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EXHIBIT INDEX


Exhibit Number						Description
2.1†						Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated September 12, 2019, by and among the Registrant, Oblong Industries, Inc. and Glowpoint Merger Sub II, Inc. (filed as Exhibit 2.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September 16, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference).
2.2						Amendment to Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated October 1, 2019, by and among the Registrant, Oblong Industries, Inc. and Glowpoint Merger Sub II, Inc. (filed as Exhibit 2.2 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 7, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference).
3.1						Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on May 10, 2023, and incorporated herein by reference).
3.2*						Amended and Restated By-laws, as amended by the First Amendment to Amended and Restated By-Laws, dated October 19, 2023.
4.1						Specimen Common Stock Certificate (filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on June 6, 2007, and incorporated herein by reference).
4.2						Certificate of Designations, Preferences and Rights of Series D Preferred Stock (filed as Exhibit 4.6 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September 24, 2007, and incorporated herein by reference).
4.3						Certificate of Designations, Preferences and Rights of Series A-2 Preferred Stock of the Registrant (filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on August 11, 2009, and incorporated herein by reference).
4.4						Certificate of Designations, Preferences and Rights of Perpetual Series B Preferred Stock of the Registrant (filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on March 30, 2010, and incorporated herein by reference).
4.5						Certificate of Designations, Preferences and Rights of Perpetual Series B-1 Preferred Stock of the Registrant (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on August 9, 2011, and incorporated herein by reference).
4.6						Certificate of Designations of Rights, Powers, Preferences, Privileges and Restrictions of the 0% Series B Convertible Preferred Stock (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on November 14, 2017, and incorporated herein by reference).
4.7						Certificate of Designations of Rights, Powers, Preferences, Privileges and Restrictions of the 0% Series C Convertible Preferred Stock (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on January 25, 2018, and incorporated herein by reference).
4.8						Certificate of Designations of the 6.0% Series D Convertible Preferred Stock (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 7, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference).
4.9						Certificate of Designations of the 6.0% Series E Convertible Preferred Stock (filed as Exhibit 3.2 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 7, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference).
4.10						Certificate of Designations of the 9.0% Series F Convertible Preferred Stock (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 3, 2023, and incorporated herein by reference).
4.11						Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant (filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on November 16, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference).
4.12						Form of Series A Common Stock Purchase Warrant (filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 28, 2021, and incorporated herein by reference).
4.13						Form of Series B Common Stock Purchase Warrant (filed as Exhibit 4.2 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 28, 2021, and incorporated herein by reference).
4.14						Form of Amendment to Series A Warrants (filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on January 3, 2022, and incorporated herein by reference).
4.15						Form of Amendment to Series A Warrants (filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report of Form 8-K filed with the SEC on January 3, 2023, and incorporated herein by reference).
4.16						Form of Common Warrant (filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 3, 2023, and incorporated herein by reference).
4.17						Form of Preferred Warrant (filed as Exhibit 4.2 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 3, 2023, and incorporated herein by reference).
4.18						Form of Exchange Warrant (filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on July 5, 2023, and incorporated herein by reference.
4.19*						Description of Common Securities.

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10.1#						Form of Stock Option Award Agreement (filed as Exhibit 99.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on March 15, 2012, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.2#						Form of Restricted Stock Award Agreement (filed as Exhibit 99.2 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on March 15, 2012, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.3#						Glowpoint, Inc. 2014 Equity Incentive Plan (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 2, 2014, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.4#						2015 Form of Performance-Vested Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (Executive Officers) (filed as Exhibit 10.6 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 5, 2015, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.5#						2015 Form of Performance-Vested Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (Employees) (filed as Exhibit 10.7 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 5, 2015, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.6#						2016 Form of Performance-Vested Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (Executive Officers) (filed as Exhibit 10.8 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 31, 2017, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.7#						2016 Form of Performance-Vested Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (Employees) (filed as Exhibit 10.9 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 31, 2017, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.8#						Form of Time-Vested Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (Executive Officers) (filed as Exhibit 10.8 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 5, 2015, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.9#						Form of Time-Vested Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (Employees) (filed as Exhibit 10.9 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 5, 2015, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.10#						Form of Restricted Stock Grant Agreement (filed as Exhibit 10.12 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 31, 2017, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.11#						Form of Director Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (filed as Exhibit 10.8 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 5, 2015, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.12#						Form of Indemnification Agreement for directors and officers (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 2, 2014, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.13						Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated October 23, 2017 (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 23, 2017, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.14						Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated January 22, 2018 (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on January 22, 2018, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.15#						First Amendment to the Glowpoint, Inc. 2014 Equity Incentive Plan (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 1, 2018, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.16						Representation Agreement, dated July 19, 2019, by and among the Registrant and the Stockholders named therein (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on July 25, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.17#						Second Amended and Restated Employment Agreement, by and between the Registrant and Peter Holst, dated July 19, 2019 (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on July 25, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.18#						Amended and Restated Employment Agreement, by and between the Registrant and David Clark, dated July 19, 2019 (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on July 25, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.19						Series E Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement, dated October 1, 2019, by and among the Registrant and the Purchasers party thereto (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 7, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.20						Registration Rights Agreement, dated October 1, 2019, by and among the Registrant and the Purchasers party thereto (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 7, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.21#						Glowpoint, Inc. 2019 Equity Incentive Plan (filed as Exhibit 10.3 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on December 20, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.22						Form of Securities Purchase Agreement (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on November 16, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.23						Form of Securities Purchase Agreement (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 28, 2021, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.24						Separation Agreement dated March 4, 2022, between the Company and Pete Hawkes (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on March 8, 2022. and incorporated herein by reference)

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10.25						Securities Purchase Agreement, dated March 31, 2023 (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 3, 2023, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.26						Registration Rights Agreement, dated March 31, 2023 (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 3, 2023, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.27						Engagement Letter, dated March 30, 2023 (filed as Exhibit 10.3 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 3, 2023, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.28						Form of Warrant Repricing Letter, dated April 18, 2023 (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 24, 2023, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.29						Exchange Agreement, dated as of June 30, 2023, between Oblong, Inc. and Foundry Venture Capital 2007, L.P. and Foundry Group Select Fund, L.P. (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on July 5, 2023, and incorporated herein by reference).
10.30						Waiver, dated as of October 6, 2023, between Oblong, Inc. and certain Investors (filed as exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 10, 2023, and incorporated herein by reference).
21.1*						Subsidiaries of the Registrant.
23.1*						Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm-EisnerAmper LLP.
24.1						Power of Attorney (included in the signature page hereto)
31.1*						Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of the Chief Executive Officer.
31.2*						Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of the Chief Financial Officer.
32.1**						Section 1350 Certification of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.
97.1*#						Compensation Clawback Policy
101.INS						Inline XBRL Instance Document
101.SCH						Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema
101.CAL						Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase
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# Constitutes a management contract, compensatory plan or arrangement.

* Filed herewith.

** Furnished herewith.

† Schedules have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K. The registrant hereby undertakes to furnish supplemental copies of any of the omitted schedules upon request by the SEC.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirement of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

March 19, 2024


			OBLONG, INC.

			By:			/s/ Peter Holst
						Peter Holst
						Chief Executive Officer and President

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Peter Holst and David Clark jointly and severally, his attorneys-in-fact, each with power of substitution, for him in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments to this Report on Form 10-K, and file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact, or his substitute or substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant as of this 19th day of March 2024 in the capacities indicated.


/s/ Peter Holst						Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Peter Holst


/s/ David Clark						Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
David Clark


/s/ Jonathan Schechter						Director
Jonathan Schechter


/s/ Jason Adelman						Director
Jason Adelman


/s/ Robert Weinstein						Director
Robert Weinstein


/s/ Deborah Meredith						Director
Deborah Meredith

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of

Oblong, Inc.

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Oblong, Inc. and Subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years then ended, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matter

The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involves our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of the critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.

Accounting for the 2023 private placement

As described in Note 10 to the consolidated financial statements, in March 2023, the Company closed a private placement and issued (i) 6,550 shares of newly designated Series F preferred stock; (ii) preferred warrants to acquire 32,750 shares of Series F preferred stock, and (iii) common warrants to acquire up to 3,830,413 shares of common stock. Based on the terms of the warrant agreements, the Company determined that the Series F preferred stock, the Series F preferred warrants and the common warrants should be classified as permanent equity.

We identified the assessment of the accounting and balance sheet classification of the Series F preferred Stock, the Series F preferred warrants and the common warrants as equity or liability as a critical audit matter due to the complexity in assessing the instrument features, which requires management to interpret and apply complex terms of the agreements and the appropriate accounting guidance. As such, there was a high degree of auditor judgement and subjectivity, and significant audit effort was required in performing procedures to evaluate management’s conclusions.

Addressing the critical audit matter involved performing procedures and evaluating audit evidence in connection with forming our overall opinion on the financial statements. These procedures included, among others, (i) obtaining an understanding of and evaluating the design of controls related to financial reporting; (ii) obtaining the equity agreements and evaluating the terms and conditions of the agreements and assessing the reasonableness of management’s interpretation and application of the

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appropriate accounting guidance and (ii) utilizing personnel with specialized skill and knowledge to assist in assessing the appropriateness of conclusions reached by management by (a) evaluating the underlying terms of the agreements and (b) assessing the appropriateness of management’s application of the authoritative accounting guidance.

/s/ EisnerAmper LLP

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2010.

EISNERAMPER LLP

Iselin, New Jersey

March 19, 2024

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OBLONG, INC.

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(In thousands, except par value, stated value and shares)


	December 31, 2023		December 31, 2022
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	5,990	$	3,085

Accounts receivable, net	424		415
Inventory, net	239		723
Prepaid expenses and other current assets	243		649
Total current assets	6,896		4,872
Property and equipment, net	—		3

Intangibles, net	—		604
Operating lease, right-of-use assets, net	17		142
Other assets	12		40
Total assets	$	6,925	$	5,661
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Current liabilities:

Accounts payable	211		184
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities	1,038		1,074
Current portion deferred revenue	132		436
Operating lease liabilities, current	17		219



Total current liabilities	1,398		1,913
Long-term liabilities:


Operating lease liabilities, net of current portion	—		17
Deferred revenue, net of current portion	26		114

Total long-term liabilities	26		131
Total liabilities	1,424		2,044
Commitments and contingencies (see Note 14)
Stockholders’ equity:
Preferred stock Series F, convertible; $.0001 par value; $2,064,063 stated value; 42,000 shares authorized, 1,930 and zero shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively	—		—
Common stock, $.0001 par value; 150,000,000 shares authorized; 16,692,000 shares issued and 16,685,000 shares outstanding at December 31, 2023 and 2,071,000 shares issued and 2,063,000 outstanding at December 31, 2022	2		—
Treasury stock, 8,000 common shares at December 31, 2023 and 2022	(181)		(181)
Additional paid-in capital	233,911		227,645
Accumulated deficit	(228,231)		(223,847)
Total stockholders’ equity	5,501		3,617
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity	$	6,925	$	5,661

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

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OBLONG, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(In thousands, except per share data)


	Year Ended December 31,
	2023		2022
Revenue	$	3,810	$	5,476
Cost of revenue (exclusive of depreciation and amortization and casualty loss)	2,899		3,930
Gross profit	911		1,546
Operating expenses (gains):
Research and development	20		1,699
Sales and marketing	309		1,431
General and administrative	4,870		5,278
Impairment charges	262		12,740
Casualty (gain) loss, net	(400)		483
Depreciation and amortization	345		1,903
Total operating expenses	5,406		23,534
Loss from operations	(4,495)		(21,988)
Interest and other income, net
Interest and other expense	28		19

Interest and other income	(166)		(59)

Total interest and other income, net	(138)		(40)
Loss before income taxes	(4,357)		(21,948)
Income tax expense (benefit)	27		(7)
Net loss	$	(4,384)	$	(21,941)
Preferred stock dividends	343		—

Induced conversion of warrants	751		—
Warrant modification	25		—
Net loss attributable to common stockholders	$	(5,503)	$	(21,941)

Net loss attributable to common stockholders per share:
Basic and diluted net loss per share	$	(0.98)	$	(10.62)


Weighted-average number of shares of common stock:
Basic and diluted	5,595		2,065

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

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OBLONG, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

(In thousands, except shares of Series F Preferred Stock)


	Series F Preferred Stock			Common Stock			Treasury Stock
	Shares	Amount		Shares	Amount		Shares	Amount		Additional Paid-In Capital		Accumulated Deficit		Total
Balance at December 31, 2021	—	$	—	2,071	$	—	8	$	(181)	$	227,584	$	(201,906)	$	25,497
Net loss	—	—		—	—		—	—		—		(21,941)		(21,941)
Stock-based compensation	—	—		—	—		—	—		146		—		146
Forfeiture of unvested stock options	—	—		—	—		—	—		(85)		—		(85)
Balance at December 31, 2022	—	—		2,071	—		8	(181)		227,645		(223,847)		3,617
Net loss	—	—		—	—		—	—		—		(4,384)		(4,384)
Stock-based compensation	—	—		180	—		—	—		504		—		504
Proceeds from private placement, net of fees	6,550	—		—	—		—	—		5,364		—		5,364
Proceeds from warrant exercise, net of fees	—	—		339	—		—	—		534		—		534
Common stock exchanged for pre-funded warrants	—	—		(407)	—		—	—		—		—		—
Exercise of pre-funded warrants	—	—		407	—		—	—		—		—		—
Conversions of Series F Preferred Stock and accrued dividends	(4,620)	—		14,102	2		—	—		207		—		209
Series F Preferred Stock dividends	—	—		—	—		—	—		(343)		—		(343)
Balance at December 31, 2023	1,930	$	—	16,692	$	2	8	$	(181)	$	233,911	$	(228,231)	$	5,501

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

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OBLONG, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(In thousands)


	Year Ended December 31,
	2023		2022
Cash flows from Operating Activities:
Net loss	$	(4,384)	$	(21,941)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization	345		1,903
Bad debt (recovery) expense	(52)		118
Non-cash lease expense from right-of-use assets	125		349
Stock-based compensation	504		146

Forfeiture of unvested stock options	—		(85)
Loss (gain) on disposal of assets	3		(2)

Casualty loss on inventory	—		483

Impairment charges - property and equipment	—		61
Impairment charges - intangible assets	259		5,133
Impairment charges - right-of use assets	—		179
Impairment charges - goodwill	—		7,367
Changes in assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable	43		316
Prepaid expenses and other current assets	406		432
Inventory	484		615
Other assets	28		69
Accounts payable	27		(75)
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities	(170)		115
Deferred revenue	(392)		(614)
Lease liabilities	(219)		(503)

Net cash used in operating activities	(2,993)		(5,934)
Cash flows from Investing Activities:
Proceeds on sale of equipment	—		30
Purchases of property and equipment	—		(11)
Net cash provided by investing activities	—		19
Cash flows from Financing Activities:
Proceeds from private placement, net of issuance costs	5,364		—
Net proceeds from exercise of common stock warrants	534		—
Net cash provided by financing activities	5,898		—

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents	2,905		(5,915)
Cash and restricted cash at beginning of year	3,085		9,000
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year	$	5,990	$	3,085


Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:
Cash paid during the period for interest	$	20	$	7
Cash paid for income taxes	$	31	$	—

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

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Reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents
Cash	$	5,490	$	3,085
Current certificates of deposit	500		—

Total cash and cash equivalents	$	5,990	$	3,085

Non-cash investing and financing activities:
New operating lease agreement	$	—	$	11
Preferred stock dividends	$	343	$	—
Warrant modification	$	25	$	—

Induced exercise of common stock warrants	$	751	$	—
Common stock issued for conversion of Preferred Stock and accrued dividends	$	209	$	—

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

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OBLONG, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Note 1 - Business Description and Significant Accounting Policies

Business Description

Oblong, Inc. (“Oblong” or “we” or “us” or the “Company”) was formed as a Delaware corporation in May 2000 and is a provider of patented multi-stream collaboration technologies and managed services for video collaboration and network applications. Prior to March 6, 2020, Oblong, Inc. was named Glowpoint, Inc. (“Glowpoint”). On March 6, 2020, Glowpoint changed its name to Oblong, Inc.

Principles of Consolidation

The Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of Oblong and our 100%-owned subsidiaries (i) GP Communications, LLC (“GP Communications”), whose business function is to provide interstate telecommunications services for regulatory purposes, and (ii) Oblong Industries, Inc. All inter-company balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The U.S. Dollar is the functional currency for all subsidiaries.

During 2022, the Company ceased operations through Oblong Industries’ 100%-owned subsidiary Oblong Europe Limited, and combined the operations into Oblong Industries, Inc. There was no activity for this subsidiary in 2022 or 2023 and Oblong Europe, Limited remains in liquidation.

Segments

Effective October 1, 2019, the former businesses of Glowpoint (now Oblong, Inc.) and Oblong Industries have been managed separately, and involve different products and services. Accordingly, the Company currently operates in two segments for purposes of segment reporting: (1) “Collaboration Products” which represents the Oblong Industries business surrounding our Mezzanine™ product offerings and (2) “Managed Services” which represents the Oblong (formerly Glowpoint) business surrounding managed services for video collaboration and network solutions. See Note 13 - Segment Reporting for further discussion.

Use of Estimates

Preparation of the Consolidated Financial Statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”) requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the Consolidated Financial Statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual amounts could differ from the estimates made. We continually evaluate estimates used in the preparation of our Consolidated Financial Statements for reasonableness. Appropriate adjustments, if any, to the estimates used are made prospectively based upon such periodic evaluation. The significant areas of estimation include determining the estimated credit losses and the inputs used in the fair value of equity based awards.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

As of December 31, 2023, our total cash balance of $5,990,000 is available, however, of this balance $500,000 was held in short-term certificates of deposit with MidFirst Bank. As of December 31, 2022, our total cash balance of $3,085,000 was available. The Company considers highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less to be cash equivalents.

Accounts Receivable and Provision for Estimated Credit Losses

Accounts receivable are customer obligations due under normal trade terms. The Company sells its Managed Services products to end-users, and its Collaboration Products to both resell partners and end-users. The Company extends credit to its customers based on their credit worthiness and on historical data, and performs ongoing credit evaluations of our customers’ financial condition. The Company maintains an allowance for estimated credit losses, related to accounts receivable, for future expected bad debt resulting from the inability or unwillingness of our customers to make required payments. We estimate our allowance for estimated credit losses based on relevant information such as historical experience, current economic conditions, and future expectations of specifically identified customer balances. This allowance is adjusted as appropriate to reflect current

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conditions. After all attempts to collect a receivable have failed, the receivable is written off against the allowance. We do not obtain collateral from our customers to secure accounts receivable.

Net accounts receivable consisted of the following:


	As of December 31,
	2023		2022
Accounts receivable	$	577,000	$	624,000
Allowance for estimated credit losses	(153,000)		(209,000)
Accounts receivable, net	$	424,000	$	415,000

During the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company recorded bad debt recovery of $52,000 and bad debt expense of $118,000, respectively. As of December 31, 2021, accounts receivable and the allowance for doubtful accounts were $949,000 and $100,000, respectively.

Inventory

Inventory consists of finished goods and was determined using average costs and was stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value. The Company periodically performs analyses to identify obsolete or slow-moving inventory.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The Company considers its cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and lease obligations to meet the definition of financial instruments. The carrying amount of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable and accounts payable approximated their fair value due to the short maturities of these instruments. The carrying amounts of our lease obligations (see Note 8 - Operating Lease Liabilities and Right-of-Use Assets ) approximated their fair values, which were based on borrowing rates that were available to the Company for loans with similar terms, collateral, and maturity.

The Company measures fair value as required by Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 820“Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures” (“ASC Topic 820”). ASC Topic 820 defines fair value, establishes a framework and gives guidance regarding the methods used for measuring fair value, and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. ASC Topic 820 clarifies that fair value is an exit price, representing the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that should be determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability. As a basis for considering such assumptions, there exists a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value as follows:

•Level 1 - unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the Company has the ability to access as of the measurement date.

•Level 2 - inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are directly observable for the asset or liability or indirectly observable through corroboration with observable market data.

•Level 3 - unobservable inputs for the asset or liability only used when there is little, if any, market activity for the asset or liability at the measurement date.

This hierarchy requires the Company to use observable market data, when available, and to minimize the use of unobservable inputs when determining fair value.

Revenue Recognition

The Company accounts for revenue in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 606.

The Company recognizes revenue using the five-step model as prescribed by Topic 606:

•Identification of the contract, or contracts, with a customer;

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•Identification of the distinct performance obligations in the contract;

•Determination of the transaction price;

•Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; and

•Recognition of revenue when or as the Company satisfies a performance obligation.

The Company’s managed videoconferencing services are offered to our customers on either a usage basis or on a subscription. Our network services are offered to our customers on a subscription basis. Revenue for these services is generally recognized on a monthly basis as services are performed. Revenue related to professional services is recognized at the time the services are performed. The costs associated with obtaining a customer contract were previously expensed in the period they were incurred. Under Topic 606, these payments are deferred on our consolidated balance sheets and amortized over the expected life of the customer contract. As of December 31, 2023 there was no deferred revenue related to Managed Services. During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company recorded $1,000 of revenue that was included in deferred revenue as of December 31, 2022. During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company recorded $7,000 of revenue that was included in deferred revenue as of December 31, 2021.

The Company disaggregates its revenue by geographic region. See Note 13 - Segment Reporting for more information.

Taxes Billed to Customers and Remitted to Taxing Authorities

We recognize taxes billed to customers in revenue and taxes remitted to taxing authorities in our cost of revenue. For the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, we included taxes of $95,000 and $207,000, respectively, in revenue and we included taxes of $101,000 and $217,000, respectively, in cost of revenue.

Long-Lived Assets, Goodwill, and Intangible Assets

Property and Equipment

Property and equipment are accounted for in accordance with ASC Topic 360 “Property, Plant, and Equipment” (“ASC Topic 360”), stated at cost, and are depreciated using the straight-line method over the estimated economic lives of the assets, which range from three to ten years. Leasehold improvements are amortized over the shorter of either the asset’s useful life or the related lease term. Depreciation is computed on the straight-line method for financial reporting purposes. Property and equipment assets, net of accumulated depreciation, totaled zero and $3,000 as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

Intangible Assets

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Operating Lease Right-of-use-assets

The Company has primarily leased facilities for office and warehouse space under non-cancellable operating leases for its U.S. locations, and accounts for these leases in accordance with ASC-842. Operating lease right-of-use assets and liabilities are recognized at commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the expected lease term. Right-of-use assets represent our right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and lease liabilities represent our obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Since our lease arrangements do not provide an implicit rate, we use our estimated incremental borrowing rate for the expected remaining lease term at commencement date in determining the present value of future lease payments.

Impairment

For the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company disposed of property and equipment assets with a net value of $3,000. See Note 5 - Property and Equipment for further discussion. During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company recorded impairment charges of $61,000 on property and equipment assets.

For the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company recorded impairment charges of $259,000 on purchased intangible assets, as a result of these impairment charges there are no intangible assets reported on our Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2023. See Note 6 - Intangible Assets and Goodwill for further discussion. The Company recorded impairment Charges of $5,133,000 to purchased intangible assets for the year ended December 31, 2022.

During the year ended December 31, 2022, we recorded impairment charges of $7,367,000 on goodwill. As a result of these impairment charges, there was no goodwill reported on our Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2023 or December 31, 2022.

Right-of-use assets are tested for impairment using guidance from ASC Topic 360. For the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company recorded aggregate impairment charges of $179,000 on two right-of-use assets. There were no right-of-use asset impairments for the year ended December 31, 2023.

Operating Leases

Operating leases are accounted for in accordance with ASC Topic 842 “Leases” (“ASC Topic 842”), and the liabilities are amortized using a straight-line method over the estimated life of the lease. The remaining operating lease liability as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 was $17,000 and $236,000, respectively. As of the date of this filing, the Company had no lease liability remaining. See Note 8 - Operating Lease Liabilities and Right-of-Use Assets for further discussion.

Operating lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Variable lease payments are not included in the lease payments to measure the lease liability and are expensed as incurred. Historically, the Company’s leases have had

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terms of 6 months to five years and some of the leases included a Company option to extend the lease term for less than twelve months to five years, or more, which if reasonably certain to exercise, the Company includes in the determination of lease payments. The lease agreements did not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.

Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less, with the exception of leases for real property, are not recognized on the balance sheet and the expense for these short-term leases is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Common area maintenance fees (or CAMs) and other charges related to leases are expensed as incurred.

Concentration of Credit Risk

Financial instruments that potentially subject us to significant concentrations of credit risk consist principally of cash and trade accounts receivable. We place our cash needed for operations in commercial checking accounts, and the majority of our cash is held in a money market fund. Commercial bank balances may from time to time exceed federal insurance limits. Deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the “FDIC”) in an amount up to $250,000 for any depositor, any deposit in excess of this insured amount could be lost.

Income Taxes

We use the asset and liability method to determine our income tax expense or benefit. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are computed based on temporary differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities and are measured using the enacted tax rates that are expected to be in effect when the differences are expected to be recovered or settled. Any resulting net deferred tax assets are evaluated for recoverability and, accordingly, a valuation allowance is provided when it is more likely than not that all or some portion of the deferred tax asset will not be realized.

Stock-based Compensation

Stock-based awards have been accounted for as required by ASC Topic 718 “Compensation – Stock Compensation” (“ASC Topic 718”). Under ASC Topic 718 stock-based awards are valued at fair value on the date of grant, and that fair value is recognized over the requisite service period. The Company accounts for forfeitures when they occur.

Research and Development

Research and development expenses include internal and external costs related to developing new service offerings and features and enhancements to our existing product offerings.

Treasury Stock

Purchases and sales of treasury stock are accounted for using the cost method. Under this method, shares acquired are recorded at the acquisition price directly to the treasury stock account. Upon sale, the treasury stock account is reduced by the original acquisition price of the shares and any difference is recorded in additional paid in capital, on a first-in first-out basis. The Company does not recognize a gain or loss to income from the purchase and sale of treasury stock.

Casualty Loss

In June 2022, the Company discovered that $533,000 of inventory was stolen from the Company’s warehouse in City of Industry, California. During 2022 and 2023, we received recovery payments from our insurance policies of $50,000 and $400,000, respectively, resulting in a net casualty loss of $483,000 on our Consolidated Statements of Operations for the year ended December 31, 2022 and a casualty gain of $400,000 on our Consolidated Statements of Operations for the year ended December 31, 2023. We do not expect any further recovery of the loss.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

There are no new accounting pronouncements that are expected to have a significant impact on financial statements.

In June 2016 the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, “Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326),” which was subsequently amended in February 2020 by ASU 2020-02, “Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326) and Leases

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(Topic 842).” The amendments introduce an impairment model that is based on expected credit losses, rather than incurred losses, to estimate credit losses on certain types of financial instruments (e.g., loans and held-to-maturity securities), including certain off-balance sheet financial instruments (e.g., loan commitments). The expected credit losses should consider historical information, current information, and reasonable and supportable forecasts, including estimates of prepayments, over the contractual term. Financial instruments with similar risk characteristics may be grouped together when estimating expected credit losses. The update is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022, including interim periods within those fiscal years. The Company adopted the new guidance, as of January 1, 2023, and it did not have a material impact on the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures. The new guidance is intended to improve reportable segment disclosure requirements primarily through enhanced disclosures about significant segment expenses. The amendments are effective retrospectively for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023 and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. The Company is in the process of evaluating the impact that the adoption of this ASU will have to the financial statements and related disclosures, which is not expected to be material.

In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-09, Improvements to Tax Disclosures (Topic 740), to enhance the transparency and decision usefulness of income tax disclosures through changes to the rate reconciliation and income taxes paid information. This guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted. The Company is evaluating the impact of adopting this new accounting guidance on its Consolidated Financial Statements.

Note 2 - Liquidity

As of December 31, 2023, we had $5,990,000 of available cash and cash equivalents, inclusive of $500,000 held in short-term certificates of deposit, and $5,498,000 of working capital. For the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, we incurred net losses of $4,384,000 and $21,941,000, respectively, and net cash used in operating activities was $2,993,000 and $5,934,000, respectively.

Net cash provided by investing activities for the year ended December 31, 2022 was $19,000, primarily related to the sale of property and equipment. There was no cash flow activity related to investing activities for the year ended December 31, 2023.

Net cash provided by financing activities for the year ended December 31, 2023 was attributable to a private placement resulting in net proceeds of $5,364,000 and warrant exercises resulting in net proceeds of $534,000 (see Note 9 - Capital Stock and Note 10 - Preferred Stock to our Consolidated Financial Statements). There was no cash flow related to financing activities for the year ended December 31, 2022.

Future Capital Requirements

Note 3 - Inventory

Inventory (gross) was $930,000 and $1,175,000 as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and consisted of equipment related to our Mezzanine™ product offerings, including cameras, tracking hardware, computer equipment, display equipment and amounts related to our Collaboration Products segment. Inventory consists of finished goods, as determined using average costs, and was stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value..

As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, reserves for obsolete or slow moving inventory were recorded of $691,000 and $452,000, respectively. Inventory is shown net of the obsolescence reserve on our Consolidated Balance Sheets. The reserve

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adjustment recorded to cost of goods sold was a net increase of $342,000 and $316,000 for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The following table summarizes our inventory reserve activity (in thousands):


Reserve balance as of December 31, 2021	$	(731)
Reserve adjustments	(316)
Disposals	595
Reserve balance as of December 31, 2022	(452)
Reserve adjustments	(342)
Disposals	103
Reserve balance as of December 31, 2023	$	(691)

Note 4 - Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets

Prepaid expenses and other current assets consisted of the following (in thousands):


	December 31
	2023		2022
Prepaid expenses	$	75	$	131
Employee Retention Credit receivable	—		316
Other current assets	98		90
Prepaid software licenses	70		112



Prepaid expenses and other current assets	$	243	$	649

Note 5 - Property and Equipment

Property and equipment consisted of the following (in thousands):


	December 31,				Estimated Useful Life
	2023		2022
Network equipment and software	$	—	$	1,913	3 to 5 Years
Computer equipment and software	—		$	294	3 to 5 Years


	—		2,207

Accumulated depreciation	—		(2,204)
Property and equipment, net	$	—	$	3

Related depreciation expense was zero and $78,000 for the years ended December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively.

During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company disposed of property and equipment with a cost of $2,207,000 on fixed assets and the corresponding accumulated depreciation of $2,204,000. The loss of $3,000 on disposal was recorded in impairment charges on the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Operations. During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company recorded impairment charges of $61,000.

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Note 6 - Intangible Assets and Goodwill

Intangible Assets

The following table presents the components of net intangible assets (in thousands):


	December 31,
	2023		2022
Developed technology	$	—	$	486
Trade names	—		204

Total intangible assets	—		690
Accumulated amortization	—		(86)
Intangible assets, net	$	—	$	604

At each reporting period, we determine if there was a triggering event that may result in an impairment of our intangible assets.

Collaboration Products Reportable Segment

During the year ended December 31, 2023, we considered the declines in revenue for the Collaboration Products reporting segment and the decline in the Company’s market capitalization to be triggering events for an impairment test of intangible assets for this segment. Based on the corresponding recoverability tests of the asset group for this segment, it was determined that the carrying value exceeded the gross cash flows of the asset group. The recoverability test consisted of comparing the estimated undiscounted cash flows expected to be generated by those assets to the respective carrying amounts, and involves significant judgements and assumptions, related primarily to the future revenue and profitability of the assets. Based on the fair value of the asset group, which was determined using a market approach, we recorded impairment charges of $259,000 for the year ended December 31, 2023, writing down our intangible assets to zero as of December 31, 2023. During the year ended December 31, 2022, we recorded impairment charges of $5,133,000 on intangible assets.

Historically, intangible assets with finite lives were amortized using the straight-line method over the estimated economic lives of the assets, which ranged from five years to twelve years in accordance with ASC Topic 350.

Related amortization expense was $345,000 and $1,825,000 for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

Goodwill

During 2022, goodwill was written down to zero with impairment charges of $7,367,000.

Note 7 - Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following (in thousands):


	December 31,
	2023		2022
Compensation costs	$	448	$	707
Customer deposits	118		128
Professional fees	104		57
Taxes and regulatory fees	22		59
Accrued rent	202		—
Accrued dividends on Series F Preferred Stock	136		—
Other accrued expenses and liabilities	8		123
	$	1,038	$	1,074

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Note 8 - Operating Lease Liabilities and Right-of-Use Assets

As of December 31, 2023, we leased one facility in City of Industry, California, providing warehouse space. This lease expired in February 2024. During 2023, and through the date of this filing, we exited office space leases Austin, Texas and Los Angeles, California as well as the warehouse lease in City of Industry, CA.

Lease expenses, net of common charges, for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 were $214,000 and $502,000, respectively. Sublet proceeds for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 were zero and $140,000, respectively.

The following provides balance sheet information related to leases as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 (in thousands):


		December 31,
		2023		2022
Assets
	Operating lease, right-of-use asset, net	$	17	$	142

Liabilities
	Current portion of operating lease liabilities	$	17	$	219
	Operating lease liabilities, net of current portion	—		17
	Total operating lease liabilities	$	17	$	236

The following table summarizes the future undiscounted cash payments reconciled to the lease liability (in thousands):


Total lease payments remaining in 2024	$	17
Effect of discounting (1)	—
Total lease liability	17
Less: current portion of lease liabilities	17
Operating lease liabilities, net of current portion	$	—

(1) The effect of discounting is less than $1,000 due to the term remaining on the lease.

The following table provides a reconciliation of activity for our right-of-use (“ROU”) assets and lease liabilities (in thousands):


	Right-of-Use Asset		Operating Lease Liability
Balance at December 31, 2021	$	659	$	728
Additions	11		11

Amortizations and Reductions	(349)		(503)
Impairment Charges	(179)
Balance at December 31, 2022	142		236


Amortizations and Reductions	(125)		(219)

Balance at December 31, 2023	$	17	$	17

The ROU assets and lease liabilities are recorded on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022.

In February 2023, we exited a property in Austin, Texas and in May 2023 we exited three properties in Los Angeles, California. In February 2024, the Company exited its City of Industry, California lease upon expiration. We are currently in the process of securing a warehouse facility in, or around, Denver, CO. During the interim, our inventory is being stored in a secured third party location. We currently operate out of remote employment sites with a remote office located at 110 16th Street, Suite 1400-1024, Denver, CO 80202.

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Note 9 - Capital Stock

Common Stock

The Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), is listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market (“Nasdaq”). As of December 31, 2023 we had 150,000,000 shares of Common Stock authorized, with 16,692,124 and 16,684,571 shares issued and outstanding, respectively.

On January 3, 2023, the Company effected a 1-for-15 reverse stock split of its Common Stock. All Common Stock share information (including treasury share information) in our Consolidated Financial Statements has been adjusted for this stock split retrospectively for all periods represented herein.

On April 18, 2023, the Company issued 339,498 shares of Common Stock in relation to certain warrant exercises discussed below, and 177,564 shares of Common Stock related to vested restricted stock units discussed in Note 11 - Stock Based Compensation .

On May 28, 2023, in relation to the departure of certain directors, 42 restricted stock awards and 1,929 restricted stock units became fully vested and 1,971 shares of the Company’s Common Stock were issued. See Note 11 - Stock Based Compensation for further detail.

During the year ended December 31, 2023, 4,620 shares of Series F Preferred Stock, plus accrued dividends, were converted to 14,102,477 shares of the Company’s Common Stock, respectively. See Note 10 - Preferred Stock, for further detail.

On June 30, 2023, the Company entered into an exchange agreement (the “Exchange Agreement”) with entities affiliated with Foundry Group (the “Exchanging Stockholders”), pursuant to which the Company exchanged an aggregate of 406,776 shares of the Company’s Common Stock owned by the Exchanging Stockholders for pre-funded warrants (the “Exchange Warrants”) to purchase an aggregate of 407,000 shares of Common Stock (subject to adjustment in the event of stock splits, recapitalizations and other similar events affecting Common Stock), with an exercise price of $0.0001 per share. The Exchange Warrants were exercisable at any time, except that the Exchange Warrants were not exercisable by the Exchanging Stockholders if, upon giving effect or immediately prior thereto, the Exchanging Stockholders would beneficially own more than 4.99% of the total number of issued and outstanding Common Stock, which percentage may change at the holders’ election to any other number less than or equal to 19.99% upon 61 days’ notice to the Company. The holders of the Exchange Warrants did not have the right to vote on any matter except to the extent required by Delaware law. The shares were exchanged in July 2023, and the returned shares were added back to the authorized and unissued share balance of the Company.On November 15, 2023, all the Exchange Warrants were exercised resulting in 407,000 shares of Common Stock being issued.

There was no Common Stock activity during the year ended December 31, 2022. The following table provides a summary of Common Stock activity for the year ended December 31, 2023:


Issued Shares as of December 31, 2022 and 2021						2,070,861
Issuances from Preferred Stock conversions						14,102,477
Issuances related to warrants						746,027
Issuances related to stock compensation						179,535
Common shares exchanged for prefunded warrants						(406,776)
Issued Shares as of December 31, 2023						16,692,124
Less Treasury Shares:						7,553
Outstanding Shares as of December 31, 2023						16,684,571

Common Stock Warrants

On January 3, 2023, the Company and all the holders of the Series A Warrants agreed to amend the terms of the Series A Warrants, issued on June 28, 2021, to extend the termination date from January 4, 2023 to January 4, 2024. All other terms of the Series A Warrants remain in full force and effect. The modification resulted in an incremental value adjustment, and deemed dividend, of $25,000, which was recorded within additional paid-in capital during the three months ended March 31, 2023.

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On March 30, 2023, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with certain accredited investors (the “Investors”), pursuant to which we issued and sold, in a private placement (the “Private Placement”) (i) 6,550 shares of our newly designated Series F Preferred Stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the “Series F Preferred Stock”), (ii) preferred warrants (the “Preferred Warrants”) to acquire 32,750 shares of Series F Preferred Stock, and (iii) common warrants (“Common Warrants” and with the Preferred Warrants the “Investor Warrants”) to acquire up to 3,830,417 shares of Common Stock. Please refer to Note 10 - Preferred Stock for further discussion on the Series F Preferred Stock and Preferred Warrants.

In connection with the Private Placement, pursuant to an engagement letter dated March 30, 2023, between the Company and Dawson James Securities, Inc. (the “Placement Agent”), the Company agreed to (i) pay the Placement Agent a cash fee equal to 8% of the aggregate gross proceeds raised in the Private Placement, and (ii) grant to the Placement Agent warrants (the “Placement Agent Warrants”) to purchase 306,433 shares of Common Stock.

On March 31, 2023, the Company issued the Common Warrants and the Placement Agent Warrants to purchase an aggregate of 4,136,850 shares of the Company’s Common Stock. The Common Warrants and Placement Agent Warrants have a term of 5 years, commencing six months and one day from the date of issuance, and are initially exercisable for $1.71 per share. The exercise price is subject to customary adjustments for stock splits, stock dividends, stock combination, recapitalization, or other similar transactions involving the Common Stock, and subject to price-based adjustment, on a full ratchet basis, in the event of any issuances of Common Stock, or securities convertible, exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, at a price below the then-applicable exercise price for the Common Warrants (subject to certain exceptions). The Common Warrants and Placement Agent Warrants are exercisable for cash, provided that if there is no effective registration statement available permitting the resale of the common shares, they may be exercised on a cashless basis. Exercise of the Common Warrants and Placement Agent Warrants is subject to certain limitations, including a 4.99% beneficial ownership limitation. The fair value of the warrants was recorded within additional paid-in capital during the three months ended March 31, 2023.

On April 18, 2023, the Company entered into warrant exercise inducement offer letters with certain holders of outstanding warrants to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock originally issued on October 21, 2020, December 6, 2020, and June 28, 2021, (such holders the “Exercising Holders” and such warrants the “Existing Warrants”) pursuant to which the Exercising Holders agreed to exercise, for cash, Existing Warrants to purchase, in the aggregate, 339,498 shares of the Company’s Common Stock (the “Existing Warrant Shares”), in exchange for the Company’s agreement to lower the exercise price of the Existing Warrants to $1.71. The Company received net proceeds of $534,000 from the exercise of the Existing Warrants in April 2023 (net of $46,000 of financing costs). The inducement resulted in an incremental value adjustment, and deemed dividend, of $751,000, which was recorded within additional paid-in capital during the three months ended June 30, 2023. Following this transaction, 667, 1,934, and 1,000 warrants remained outstanding of the warrants issued on October 21, 2020, December 6, 2020, and June 28, 2021, respectively.

On April 23, 2023, the 667 unexercised warrants issued on October 21, 2020 expired.

On June 7, 2023, the 1,934 unexercised warrants issued on December 6, 2020 expired.

On October 6, 2023, the Company and Investors holding a majority of the outstanding shares of the Preferred Stock agreed to waive any and all provisions, terms, covenants and obligations in the Certificate of Designations or Common Warrants to the extent such provisions permit the conversion or exercise of the Preferred Stock and the Common Warrants, respectively, to occur at a price below $0.2792. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Common Warrants, the “Exercise Price” as set forth in the Common Warrant shall in no event be less than $0.2792 (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations, recapitalizations and similar events).

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Warrants outstanding as of December 31, 2023 are as follows:


Issue Date	Warrants Issued	Exercise Price		Expiration Date
June 30, 2021 - Series A*	250	$	60.00	January 4, 2024
June 30, 2021 - Series B	750	$	66.00	June 28, 2024
Investor Common Warrants	3,830,417	$	1.71	September 30, 2028
Placement Agent Warrants	306,433	$	1.71	September 30, 2028
	4,137,850

*The Series A warrant’ expiration date has been updated to reflect the extension described above that occurred on January 3, 2023, and as of the date of this filing, the remaining Series A Warrants have expired.

Warrant activity for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 is presented below:


	Outstanding
	Number of Warrants	Weighted Average Exercise Price















Warrants outstanding and exercisable, December 31, 2021	343,099	$	995.06

Warrants outstanding and exercisable, December 31, 2022	343,099	66.34
Granted	4,543,626	1.71
Exercised	(746,027)	0.78
Expired	(2,601)	76.93
Forfeited	(247)	—
Warrants outstanding and exercisable, December 31, 2023	4,137,850	$	1.73

Treasury Shares

The Company maintains Treasury Stock for the Common Stock shares bought back by the Company when they withhold shares to cover taxes on stock compensation transactions. There were no treasury stock transactions during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, and the treasury shares outstanding were 7,553 as of December 31, 2023 and 2022.

Note 10 - Preferred Stock

Our Certificate of Incorporation authorizes the issuance of up to 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock. As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, we had 1,983,250 designated shares of preferred stock and 1,930 shares of preferred stock issued and outstanding.

Series F Preferred Stock

On March 30, 2023, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with certain accredited investors (the “Investors”), pursuant to which we issued and sold, in a private placement (the “Private Placement”) (i) 6,550 shares of our newly designated Series F Preferred Stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the “Series F Preferred Stock”), (ii) preferred warrants (the “Preferred Warrants”) to acquire 32,750 shares of Series F Preferred Stock, and (iii) common warrants (“Common Warrants” and with the Preferred Warrants the “Investor Warrants”) to acquire up to 3,830,417 shares of Common Stock. Please refer to Note 9 - Capital Stock for further discussion on the Common Warrants.

The terms of the Series F Preferred Stock are as set forward in the Certificate of Designations of Series F Preferred Stock of Oblong, Inc. (the “Certificate of Designations”), which was filed and became effective with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on March 31, 2023. The Private Placement closed on March 31, 2023, in exchange for gross and net proceeds of $6,386,000 and $5,364,000, respectively. The financing fees associated with the Purchase Agreement were $1,022,000.

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The Series F Preferred Shares are convertible into fully paid and non-assessable shares of the Company’s Common Stock at the election of the holder at any time at an initial conversion price of $1.71 (the “Conversion Price”). The holders of the Series F Preferred Shares may also elect to convert their shares at an alternative conversion price equal to the lower of (i) 80% of the applicable Conversion Price as in effect on the date of the conversion, (ii) 80% of the closing price on the trading day immediately preceding the delivery of the conversion notice, and (iii) the greater of (a) the Floor Price (as defined in the Certificate of Designations) and (b) the quotient of (x) the sum of the five lowest Closing Bid Prices (as defined in the Certificate of Designations) for trading days in the 30 consecutive trading day period ending and including the trading day immediately preceding the delivery of the applicable Conversion Notice, divided by (y) five. The Conversion Price is subject to customary adjustments for stock splits, stock dividends, stock combination recapitalization, or other similar transactions involving the Common Stock, and subject to price-based adjustment, on a full ratchet basis, in the event of any issuances of our common stock, or securities convertible, exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, at a price below the then-applicable Conversion Price (subject to certain exceptions).

On October 6, 2023, the Company and Investors holding a majority of the outstanding shares of the Preferred Stock agreed to waive any and all provisions, terms, covenants and obligations in the Certificate of Designations or Common Warrants to the extent such provisions permit the conversion or exercise of the Preferred Stock and the Common Warrants, respectively, to occur at a price below $0.2792. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Certificate of Designations, each of the “Alternate Conversion Price” and the “Floor Price” as set forth in the Certificate of Designations shall in no event be less than $0.2792 (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations, recapitalizations and similar events).

Under the Certificate of Designations, the Series F Preferred Shares have an initial stated value of $1,000 per share (the “Stated Value”). The holders of the Series F Preferred Shares are entitled to dividends of 9% per annum, which will be payable in arrears quarterly. Accrued dividends may be paid, at our option, in cash and if not paid, shall increase the stated value of the Series F Preferred Shares. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Triggering Event (as defined in the Certificate of Designations), the Series F Preferred Shares will accrue dividends at the rate of 20% per annum (the “Default Rate”). The Series F Preferred Shares have no voting rights, other than with respect to certain matters affecting the rights of the Series F Preferred Shares. On matters with respect to which the holders of the Series F Preferred Shares have a right to vote, holders of the Preferred Shares will have voting rights on an as-converted basis.

Our ability to settle conversions is subject to certain limitations set forth in the Certificate of Designations. Further, the Certificate of Designations contains a certain beneficial ownership limitation after giving effect to the issuance of shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Series F Preferred Shares.

The Certificate of Designations includes certain Triggering Events (as defined in the Certificate of Designations), including, among other things, (i) the failure to file and maintain an effective registration statement covering the sale of the holder’s securities registrable pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, (ii) the failure to pay any amounts due to the holders of the Series F Preferred Shares when due, and (iii) if Peter Holst ceases to be the chief executive officer of the Company other than because of his death, and a qualified replacement, reasonably acceptable to a majority of the holders of the Series F Preferred Shares, is not appointed within thirty (30) business days. In connection with a Triggering Event, the Default Rate is triggered. We are subject to certain affirmative and negative covenants regarding the incurrence of indebtedness, acquisition transactions, the existence of liens, the repayment of indebtedness, the payment of cash in respect of dividends (other than dividends pursuant to the Certificate of Designations), maintenance of properties and the transfer of assets, among other matters.

During the year ended December 31, 2023, 4,620 shares of Series F Preferred Stock, plus accrued dividends, were converted to 14,102,477 shares of the Company’s common stock, respectively. There were 1,930 shares of Series F Preferred Stock outstanding and accrued dividends of $136,000 as of December 31, 2023. Series F Preferred Stock transactions are summarized in the table below:


	Series F Preferred Stock Shares	Accrued Dividends		Weighted Average Conversion Price		Common Shares Issued from Conversions
March 31, 2023 Issuance	6,550	$	—
2023 Accrued Dividends		$	343,000
2023 Conversions	(4,620)	$	(207,000)	$	0.34	14,102,477
December 31, 2023 Balance	1,930	$	136,000			14,102,477

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Series F Preferred Stock Warrants

The Preferred Warrants are exercisable for Series F Preferred Shares at an exercise price of $975. The exercise price is subject to customary adjustments for stock splits, stock dividends, stock combination recapitalizations or other similar transactions involving the Common Stock. The Preferred Warrants expire three years from the date of issuance and are exercisable for cash. For each Preferred Warrant exercised, the Investors shall receive Common Warrants to purchase a number of shares of Common Stock equal to 100% of the number of shares of Common Stock the Investors would receive if the Series F Preferred Shares issuable upon exercise of such Warrant were converted at the applicable Conversion Price. The fair value of the Preferred Warrants was recorded within additional paid-in capital during the year ended December 31, 2023. As of December 31, 2023, no Preferred Warrants have been exercised.

Note 11 - Stock Based Compensation

2019 Equity Incentive Plan

In December 2019, the Oblong, Inc. 2019 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2019 Plan”) was approved by the Company’s stockholders at the Company’s 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The 2019 Plan is an omnibus equity incentive plan pursuant to which the Company may grant equity and cash incentive awards to certain key service providers of the Company and its subsidiaries. As of December 31, 2023, the share pool available for new grants under the 2019 Plan is 3 shares.

A summary of stock compensation expense by category, for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, is as follows:


	Year Ended December 31,
Stock Based Compensation		2023		2022
Options		$	124	$	61

RSUs		380		—


Total		$	504	$	61

A summary of stock compensation by department, for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 is as follows:


	Year Ended December 31,
Stock Based Compensation		2023		2022
Research and Development		$	—	$	(64)

General & Administrative		504		125

Total		$	504	$	61

Stock Options

During the year ended December 31, 2023, no stock options were granted, 3,336 stock options vested, and 6,668 vested stock options expired. During the year ended December 31, 2022, no stock options were granted, 501 vested stock options expired, and 10,000 unvested stock options were forfeited. As of December 31, 2023 there were 10,000 stock options outstanding with a weighted average exercise price of $48.75 and a weighted average remaining contractual life of 7.5 years.

A summary of stock options expired and forfeited under our plans and options outstanding as of, and changes made during, the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 is presented below:

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	Outstanding			Exercisable
	Number of Options	Weighted Average Exercise Price		Number of Options	Weighted Average Exercise Price





Options outstanding and exercisable, December 31, 2021	27,169	113.63		7,169	294.63


Vested	—	—		3,332	97.56
Expired	(501)	410.18		(501)	410.18
Forfeited	(10,000)	48.75		—	—
Options outstanding and exercisable, December 31, 2022	16,668	$	29.25	10,000	$	223.11


Vested	—	—		3,336	48.75
Expired	(6,668)	285.89		(6,668)	285.89

Options outstanding and exercisable, December 31, 2023	10,000	$	48.75	6,668	$	48.75

The intrinsic value of vested and unvested options were not significant for all periods presented. Stock compensation expense related to stock options for the year ended December 31, 2023 was $124,000, recorded as a component of General and Administrative expense. Net stock compensation expense, related to stock options, for the year ended December 31, 2022 was $61,000, made up of $146,000 in expense offset by $85,000 related to forfeiture credits. There was $125,000 stock compensation expense, recorded as a component of General and Administrative expense and a net credit of $64,000 recorded as a component of Research and Development expense, related to stock options for the year ended December 31, 2022. As of December 31, 2023, there was $61,000 remaining as unrecognized stock-based compensation expense for options, which will be recognized over a weighted average period of 0.50 years.

Restricted Stock Awards

On May 28, 2023, in relation to the departure of certain directors, 42 restricted stock awards became fully vested and were delivered in shares of the Company’s common stock. The awards were issued in 2014 and vested over the lesser of ten years, a change in control, or separation from the company.

As of December 31, 2023, there were no unvested restricted stock awards outstanding and there is no unrecognized stock-based compensation expense for restricted stock awards. There was no stock compensation expense related to restricted stock awards during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.

Restricted Stock Units

On April 18, 2023, 177,564 restricted stock units (“RSUs”) were granted to certain board members. These RSUs vested immediately upon issuance. The closing price per share of the Company’s common stock was $2.14 on the day prior to the grant date, resulting in a total fair value of $380,000 which was included in general and administrative expense, as stock-based compensation expense, upon issuance.

On May 28, 2023, in relation to the departure of certain directors, 1,929 fully vested RSUs were delivered in shares of the Company’s common stock, in accordance with the terms of the RSUs.

As of December 31, 2023, there were no unvested RSUs outstanding and there was no remaining unrecognized stock-based compensation expense for RSUs. Stock compensation expense related to RSUs for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 was $380,000 and zero, respectively.

Note 12 - Net Loss Per Share

Basic net loss per share is computed by dividing net loss attributable to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. The weighted-average number of shares of common stock outstanding does not include any potentially dilutive securities or any unvested restricted shares of common stock. Vested

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RSUs (for which shares of common stock have not yet been delivered) are included in the calculations of basic net loss per share. Unvested RSUs are not included in calculations of basic net loss per share, as they are not considered issued and outstanding at time of grant.

Diluted net loss per share is computed by giving effect to all potential shares of common stock, including warrants, stock options, RSUs, and unvested restricted stock awards, to the extent they are dilutive. For the year ended December 31, 2023, all such common stock equivalents have been excluded from diluted net loss per share as the effect to net loss per share would be anti-dilutive (due to the net losses).

The following table sets forth the computation of the Company’s basic and diluted net loss per share (in thousands, except per share data):


	Year Ended December 31,
Numerator:	2023		2022
Net loss	$	(4,384)	$	(21,941)
Less: preferred stock dividends	343		—

Less: conversion inducement	751		—
Less: warrant modification	25		—
Net loss attributable to common stockholders	$	(5,503)	$	(21,941)
Denominator:
Weighted-average number of shares of common stock for basic net loss per share	5,595		2,065
Basic net loss per share	$	(0.98)	$	(10.62)

The following table represents the potential shares that were excluded from the computation of weighted-average number of shares of common stock in computing the diluted net loss per share for the periods presented because including them would have had an anti-dilutive effect:


	Year Ended December 31,
	2023	2022
Unvested restricted stock units	—	42

Outstanding stock options	10,000	16,668

Common stock issuable upon conversion of Series F Preferred Stock (1)	7,392,776	—
Common stock issuable upon conversion of Series F Preferred Warrants (2)	117,299,427	—
Common stock issuable upon conversion of Common Stock Warrants	4,137,850	343,099

(1) Calculation assumes conversion of the stated value, and accrued dividends, of the Series F Preferred Stock as of December 31, 2023 into Common Stock at the Floor Price.

(2) Calculation assumes exercise of the Series F Preferred Warrants for cash into Series F Preferred Stock and subsequent conversion of the Series F Preferred Stock into Common Stock at the Floor Price.

Note 13 - Segment Reporting

Certain information concerning the Company’s segments for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 is presented in the following tables (in thousands):

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	Year Ended December 31, 2023
	Managed Services			Collaboration Products			Corporate			Total
Revenue	$	2,518		$	1,292		$	—		$	3,810
Cost of revenues	1,671			1,228			—			2,899
Gross profit	$	847		$	64		$	—		$	911
Gross profit %	34		%	5		%	—		%	24		%

Allocated operating expenses	$	3		$	481		$	—		$	484
Unallocated operating expenses	—			—			4,922			4,922
Total operating expenses	$	3		$	481		$	4,922		$	5,406

Income (loss) from operations	$	844		$	(417)		$	(4,922)		$	(4,495)
Interest and other income, net	—			—			(138)			(138)
Income (loss) before income taxes	$	844		$	(417)		$	(4,784)		$	(4,357)
Income tax expense	$	11		$	16		$	—		$	27
Net income (loss)	$	833		$	(433)		$	(4,784)		$	(4,384)

	As of December 31, 2023
Total assets	$	367		$	568		$	5,990		$	6,925


	Year Ended December 31, 2022
	Managed Services			Collaboration Products			Corporate			Total
Revenue	$	3,348		$	2,128		$	—		$	5,476
Cost of revenues	2,273			1,657			—			3,930
Gross profit	$	1,075		$	471		$	—		$	1,546
Gross profit %	32.1		%	22.1		%	—		%	28.2		%

Allocated operating expenses	$	19		$	18,355		$	—		$	18,374
Unallocated operating expenses	—			—			5,160			5,160
Total operating expenses	$	19		$	18,355		$	5,160		$	23,534

Income (loss) from operations	$	1,056		$	(17,884)		$	(5,160)		$	(21,988)
Interest and other (income) expense, net	12			(52)			—			(40)
Income (loss) before income taxes	$	1,044		$	(17,832)		$	(5,160)		$	(21,948)
Income tax benefit	$	(4)		$	(3)					$	(7)
Net income (loss)	$	1,048		$	(17,829)		$	(5,160)		$	(21,941)

	As of December 31, 2022
Total assets	$	752		$	1,824		$	3,085		$	5,661

Unallocated operating expenses include costs for the year ending December 31, 2023 and 2022 that are not specific to a particular segment but are general to the group; included are expenses incurred for administrative and accounting staff, general liability and other insurance, professional fees and other similar corporate expenses. Unallocated assets consist of unrestricted cash.

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For the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, no material revenue was attributable to any individual foreign country. Approximately 1% of foreign revenue is billed in foreign currency and foreign currency gains and losses are not material. Revenue by geographic area is allocated as follows (in thousands):


	Year Ended December 31,
	2023		2022
Domestic	$	1,843	$	2,781
Foreign	1,967		2,695
	$	3,810	$	5,476

Disaggregated information for the Company’s revenue has been recognized in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations and is presented below according to contract type (dollars in thousands):


	Year Ended December 31,
	2023		% of Revenue		2022		% of Revenue
Revenue: Managed Services
Video collaboration services	$	183	4.8	%	$	334	6.1	%
Network services	2,301		60.4	%	2,954		53.9	%
Professional and other services	34		0.9	%	60		1.1	%
Total Managed Services revenue	$	2,518	66.1	%	$	3,348	61.1	%

Revenue: Collaboration Products
Visual collaboration product offerings	$	1,291	33.9	%	$	2,114	38.6	%

Licensing	1		—	%	14		0.3	%
Total Collaboration Products revenue	$	1,292	33.9	%	$	2,128	38.9	%
Total revenue	$	3,810	100.0	%	$	5,476	100.0	%

The Company’s long-lived assets were 100% located in domestic markets as of December 31, 2023 and 2022.

The Company considers a significant customer to be one that comprises more than 10% of the Company’s consolidated revenues or accounts receivable. The loss of or a reduction in sales or anticipated sales to our most significant or several of our smaller customers could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Concentration of revenues was as follows:


		Year Ended December 31, 2023
		2023		2022
	Segment	% of Revenue		% of Revenue
Customer A	Managed Services	55.9	%	46.8	%

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Concentration of accounts receivable was as follows:


		As of December 31,
		2023		2022
	Segment	% of Accounts Receivable		% of Accounts Receivable
Customer A	Managed Services	38.2	%	42.8	%
Customer B	Collaboration Products	46.8	%	22.0	%

Note 14 - Commitments and Contingencies

COVID-19

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (“WHO”) announced that infections of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) had become pandemic, and on March 13, 2020, the U.S. President announced a National Emergency relating to the disease. In May 2023, the WHO declared COVID-19 over as a global health emergency. Customers generally use our Mezzanine™ products in traditional office and operating center environments such as conference rooms or other presentation spaces. Revenue declines for our Collaboration Products business are primarily due to lower demand, largely a consequence of the commercial reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic and its prolonged effects. We believe the pandemic has fundamentally altered the way businesses consider the use of physical office spaces and, consequently, the demand for technologies that enable in-person collaboration within these spaces. Our analysis indicates that the reduced demand for our Mezzanine™ products, particularly in the aftermath of COVID-19, reflects a broader reassessment among our customers regarding the necessity and investment in collaboration solutions tailored for traditional office environments. Continuation of this trend could cause further declines in our revenue for this business.

Note 15 - Income Taxes

The following table sets forth pretax book loss (in thousands):


	Year Ended December 31,
	2023		2022
United States	$	(4,357)	$	(21,948)
Foreign	—		—
Total	$	(4,357)	$	(21,948)

The following table sets forth income before taxes and the income tax expense for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 (in thousands):


	Year Ended December 31,
	2023		2022
Current:
Federal	$	—	$	—
Foreign	15		(4)
State	12		(3)
Total current	27		(7)

Total deferred	—		—




Income tax expense (benefit)	$	27	$	(7)

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Our effective tax rate differs from the statutory federal tax rate for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 as shown in the following table (in thousands):


	Year Ended December 31,
	2023		2022
U.S. federal income taxes at the statutory rate	$	(915)	$	(4,609)
Goodwill impairment	—		1,547


State taxes, net of federal effects	(58)		(375)




U.S. Federal and state NOL carryforward adjustment for expired NOLs	613		76

Stock compensation plan adjustments	385		16
Change in valuation allowance	(112)		3,273

Other	114		65
Income tax expense (benefit)	$	27	$	(7)

The tax effect of the temporary differences that give rise to significant portions of the deferred tax assets and liabilities as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 is presented below (in thousands):


	Year Ended December 31,
	2023		2022
Deferred tax assets (liabilities):
Tax benefit of operating loss carry forward - Federal	$	29,416	$	28,459
Tax benefit of operating loss carry forward - State	5,965		6,429

Accrued expenses	131		147
Deferred revenue	36		129

Stock-based compensation	56		420
Fixed assets	4		116
Goodwill	—		28
Inventory	156		106
Intangible amortization	32		(80)
Section 174 research and experimentation	—		409
Section 163(j) interest expense	314		—
R&D credit	2,154		2,154
Texas margin tax temporary credit	55		74
Other	61		101
Total deferred tax asset, net of deferred tax liabilities	38,380		38,492

Valuation allowance	(38,380)		(38,492)
Net deferred tax asset	$	—	$	—

The ending balances of the deferred tax asset have been fully reserved, reflecting the uncertainties as to realizability evidenced by the Company’s historical results. The change in valuation allowance for the year ended December 31, 2023 is a decrease of $112,000. The change in valuation allowance for the year ended December 31, 2022 was an increase of $3,273,000.

We and our subsidiary file federal and state tax returns on a consolidated basis. On October 1, 2019 Oblong, Inc. acquired the stock of Oblong Industries Inc. that resulted in Oblong Industries Inc.'s shareholders owning 75% of Oblong, Inc. Therefore, an “ownership change” occurred on this date (as defined under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended), which places an annual limitation on the utilization of the net operating loss (“NOL”) carryforwards accumulated before the ownership change. If additional ownership changes occur in the future, the use of the net operating loss carryforwards could be subject to further limitation.

As a result of this annual limitation and the limited carryforward life of the accumulated NOLs, we determined that the 2019 ownership change resulted in the permanent loss of approximately $30,880,000 of tax NOL carryforwards. At December 31, 2022, we had federal net operating loss carryforwards of $135,517,000 available to offset future federal taxable

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income, after Section 382 limitation considerations. At December 31, 2023, we had federal net operating loss carryforwards of $140,075,000 available to offset future federal taxable income, after section 382 limitation considerations. Of this amount, $75,350,000 will expire in various amounts from 2024 through 2037. As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company also has various state net operating loss carryforwards of $98,844,000 and $97,531,000, respectively. The determination of the state net operating loss carryforwards is dependent upon apportionment percentages and state laws that can change, from year to year and impact the amount of such carryforwards. The Company has Research and Development credits of $2,154,000 at December 31, 2023 and 2022. The Research and Development credit begins to expire at the end of 2026.

The issuance of the securities in the March 31, 2023 private placement significantly diluted the ownership interest of the existing holders of our common stock. The Company is reviewing if a Section 382 ownership change occurred as a result of the private placement stock issuance. If a Section 382 ownership change did occur, this event would further limit the utilization of, and the timing of utilization, of the federal and state net operating loss carryforwards above.

There were no significant matters determined to be unrecognized tax benefits taken or expected to be taken in a tax return, in accordance with ASC Topic 740 “Income Taxes” (“ASC 740”), which clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes recognized in the financial statements, that have been recorded on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022. The Company does not anticipate a material change to unrecognized tax benefits in the next twelve months.

Additionally, ASC 740 provides guidance on the recognition of interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits. There were no interest or penalties related to income taxes that have been accrued or recognized as of and for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.

The Internal Revenue Service may generally access additional income tax for the most recent three years. This would generally prevent the Internal Revenue Service from opening an examination for years ended on or before December 31, 2020. However, there are exceptions that can extend the statute of limitations to six years, and in some cases, prevent the statute of limitations from ever expiring.

Note 16 - 401(k) Plan

We have adopted a retirement plan under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code. The 401(k) plan covers substantially all employees who meet minimum age and service requirements. Company contributions to the 401(k) plan for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 were $64,000 and $93,000, respectively.

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