11/07/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 11/07/2025 15:01
MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations in conjunction with the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and the related notes appearing elsewhere in this Form 10-Q. This discussion contains forward-looking statements reflecting our current expectations that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those discussed in our forward-looking statements as a result of many factors, including those set forth under "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in this Form 10-Q.
Overview
Bluejay Diagnostics, Inc. ("Bluejay," the "Company," "we" and/or "us")) is a medical diagnostics company focused on improving patient outcomes in critical care settings. The Company is working on developing rapid, near-patient tests using whole blood on its Symphony technology platform ("Symphony"), which consists of an analyzer and single-use protein detection cartridges. The Company does not yet have regulatory clearance for Symphony, and it will need to receive regulatory authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the "FDA") before Symphony can be marketed as a diagnostic product in the United States. The Company has completed the pre-clinical development of the Symphony analyzer. The Company is redeveloping the manufacturing processes for cartridges through a third-party contractor who is managing such redevelopment. Such redevelopment is intended to address manufacturing challenges to bring Symphony to a level consistent with necessary performance and quality requirements. After redevelopment, the Company plans to have manufacturing of the Symphony cartridges occur at a Contract Manufacturing Organization ("CMO"). To achieve its plan, the Company expects to need to raise at least $20 million of capital between the date of this filing and the end of the 2027 fiscal year, which the Company hopes to do in various tranches during this time period. The Company's current plan, subject to achieving necessary financing, is to begin testing of samples it is collecting as part of its ongoing SYMON-II clinical trial by the end of 2026, with a goal of being in position to submit a 510(k) regulatory application to the FDA in 2027, with an objective of achieving FDA clearance thereafter.
The Company's Symphony platform is a combination of Bluejay's intellectual property ("IP") and exclusively licensed and patented IP on the Symphony technology that the Company believes, if cleared, authorized, or approved by the FDA, can provide a solution to a significant market need. The Symphony device candidate is designed to produce laboratory-quality results in 20 minutes in critical care settings, including Intensive Care Units ("ICUs") and Emergency Rooms ("ERs"), where rapid and reliable results are required.
The Company's first product candidate, the Symphony IL-6 test, is an immunoassay for the measurement of interleukin-6 (IL-6) to be used for the monitoring of disease progression in critical care settings. The Company is currently focused on pursuing the Symphony IL-6 test in the context of sepsis. IL-6 is a clinically established inflammatory biomarker, and is considered a 'first-responder,' for assessment of severity of infection and inflammation across many disease indications, including sepsis. A current challenge of healthcare professionals is the excessive time and cost associated with determining a patient's level of severity at triage and the Company believes that its Symphony IL-6 test, if ultimately successful and approved, could have the ability to consistently monitor this critical care biomarker with rapid results.
If the Company succeeds with the foregoing plan, in the future it hopes to develop additional tests for Symphony, including tests for myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure (cardiac biomarkers hsTNT and NT pro-BNP) as well as other tests using the Symphony platform.
Since inception, we have incurred net losses from operations each year and we expect to continue to incur losses for the foreseeable future. We incurred net losses of approximately $1.6 million and $5.4 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively. We had negative cash flow from operating activities of approximately $4.6 million and $6.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and had an accumulated deficit of approximately $40.1 million as of September 30, 2025.
As further described below under "Liquidity and Going Concern Uncertainty" as of September 30, 2025, the Company possessed cash and cash equivalents of approximately $3.1 million, while having current liabilities of approximately $1.1 million. The Company will need to raise a material amount of additional capital in the future to continue as a going concern.
Results of Operations
Comparison of the Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 and 2024
The following table sets forth our results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024:
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Three Months Ended September 30 |
Nine Months Ended September 30 |
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| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||
| Operating expenses | ||||||||||||||||
| Research and development | $ | 785,608 | $ | 551,655 | $ | 2,460,304 | $ | 2,917,674 | ||||||||
| General and administrative | 831,339 | 809,199 | 3,030,921 | 2,759,817 | ||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | - | 753 | - | 7,481 | ||||||||||||
| Total operating expenses | 1,616,947 | 1,361,607 | 5,491,225 | 5,684,972 | ||||||||||||
| Operating loss | (1,616,947 | ) | (1,361,607 | ) | (5,491,225 | ) | (5,684,972 | ) | ||||||||
| Other income (expense): | ||||||||||||||||
| Interest expense | (200 | ) | (190,610 | ) | (652 | ) | (822,299 | ) | ||||||||
| Interest income | 18,961 | 61,692 | 66,016 | 107,191 | ||||||||||||
| Other income, net | 554 | 8,566 | 7,190 | 114,276 | ||||||||||||
| Total other income (expense), net | 19,315 | (120,352 | ) | 72,554 | (600,832 | ) | ||||||||||
| Net loss | (1,597,632 | ) | (1,481,959 | ) | (5,418,671 | ) | (6,285,804 | ) | ||||||||
| Deemed dividend on warrant modification | - | 13,223,053 | - | 13,223,053 | ||||||||||||
| Net loss applicable to common stockholders | $ | (1,597,632 | ) | $ | (14,705,012 | ) | $ | (5,418,671 | ) | $ | (19,508,857 | ) | ||||
Research and Development
Research and development expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2025 were approximately $0.8 million as compared to approximately $0.6 million for the same period in 2024. The increase in research and development expenses was primarily due to increased clinical trial expenses, partially offset by a reduction in technology transfer efforts. We expect future research and development expenses to be focused on costs specifically associated with our clinical trial program supporting our regulatory strategy, technology transfer efforts and any necessary manufacturing improvements.
General and Administrative
General and administrative expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2025, were approximately $0.8 million as compared to approximately $0.8 million for the comparable period in 2024. We expect to monitor and continue to pare our general and administrative spend, as necessary, to optimize operational alignment.
Sales and Marketing
Sales and marketing expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2025 were zero, compared to approximately $753 for the comparable period in 2024. The decrease in sales and marketing expenses was due to a cessation in spending for all sales and marketing efforts.
Other Income (Expense), net
Total other income (expense), net for the three months ended September 30, 2025, was $19,315 of income as compared to $120,352 of expense for the same periods in 2024. The increase in other income (expense), net was primarily due to lower interest expense ($190,610) associated with our notes payable under the 2024 Bridge Note Financing.
Deemed dividend on warrant modification
Upon stockholder approval of the issuance of Class C Warrants and Class D Warrants on August 21, 2024, the Class C Warrants, which had an initial exercise price of $98.00 per share of common stock, were adjusted to be exercisable at an exercise price of $16.30 per share and the number of shares of common stock issuable upon exercise was proportionately increased to 1,372,586 shares. Concurrently, the number of shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Class D Warrants increased to four shares per warrant for the remaining unexercised warrants. In connection with the reset in the exercise price and number of shares issuable pursuant to exercise of the Class C Warrants and Class D Warrants, we recorded a deemed dividend of $13,223,053 based on the excess of the fair value of the modified Class C Warrants and Class D Warrants over the fair value of the Class C Warrants and Class D Warrants before the modification, the effect of which was an increase in the net loss attributable to common shareholders in the statement of operations for the three and nine-months ended September 30, 2024.
Summary Statement of Cash Flows
The following table sets forth the primary sources and uses of cash and cash equivalents for each of the periods presented.
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Nine Months Ended September 30, |
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| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
| Cash proceeds (used in) provided by: | ||||||||
| Operating activities | $ | (4,598,705 | ) | $ | (6,369,477 | ) | ||
| Investing activities | - | (305,658 | ) | |||||
| Financing activities | 3,379,028 | 10,222,360 | ||||||
| Net increase in cash and cash equivalents | $ | (1,219,677 | ) | $ | 3,547,225 | |||
Net cash used in operating activities
During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, we used approximately $4.6 million in cash for operating activities, a decrease of approximately $1.8 million as compared to the same period in 2024. The decrease is driven by a lower net loss, an increase in accrued expenses and other current liabilities and a decrease prepaid expenses when comparing the two periods.
Net cash used in investing activities
During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, we used no cash for investing activities, a decrease of $305,658 as compared to the same period in 2024. The decrease in net cash used in investing activities was due to no purchasing of manufacturing equipment.
Net cash provided by financing activities
During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, we raised approximately $3.4 million in cash through financing activities, a decrease of approximately $6.8 million as compared to the same period in 2024. The decrease in net cash generated by financing activities was due our private placement on April 8, 2025 as compared to our public offering on January 2, 2024, a Bridge Note Financing in June 2024 and our public offering on June 28, 2024.
Liquidity and Going Concern Uncertainty
The Company had cash and cash equivalents of $3,082,268 and current liabilities of $1,148,913 as of September 30, 2025. The Company has incurred net losses since its inception, has incurred negative cash flows from operations and had an accumulated deficit of $40,087,455 as of September 30, 2025. The Company expects that its net cash used in operating activities will continue to be negative over at least the next several years as it attempts to redevelop aspects of the manufacturing process for Symphony cartridges and conducts clinical trial work and, if such redevelopment and trials are successful, begins preparation of an FDA submission. These financial results and financial position, and the Company's expected forward-looking outlook of significant negative cash flow in the future, raise substantial doubt with respect to its ability to continue as a going concern. The Company expects that it will not be in position to submit a 510(k) regulatory application to the FDA for Symphony until 2027, at the earliest, if it is even able to generate sufficient clinical trial results to support such a submission. If the Company fails to obtain sufficient future financing, its clinical trials and targeted FDA submission timeline could be delayed, and it could be forced to abandon such activities entirely and cease operations, with the possible loss of such properties or assets. If the Company is unable to obtain additional financing as it continues to generate negative cash flow, its board of directors could determine to cause the Company to undertake a process of liquidation under Chapter 7 of applicable U.S. bankruptcy laws, or otherwise seek other protection under such laws. In such event, holders of shares of the Company's common stock could recoup little, if any, value in such process. The Company currently estimates that the cash resources it possesses as of the date of this filing (which includes proceeds from a private placement transaction completed in October 2025) will be sufficient to fund its operations up to the third quarter of 2026.
The condensed consolidated financial statements for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 were prepared under the assumption that the Company will continue as a going concern, which contemplates that the Company will be able to realize assets and discharge liabilities in the normal course of business.
Recent Offerings
January 2024 Public Offering
On January 2, 2024, the Company sold in a public offering (such transaction, the "January 2024 Offering") (i) 1,344 shares of the Company's common stock and (ii) prefunded warrants to purchase up to an aggregate 5,386 shares of common stock (the "January 2024 Prefunded Warrants"). The shares of common stock and January 2024 Prefunded Warrants were sold together with warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 6,730 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $520.00 per share (the "January 2024 Warrants"). The combined public offering price was $520.00 per share of Common Stock and related January 2024 Warrant and $519.96 per January 2024 Prefunded Warrant and related January 2024 Warrant.
As of December 31, 2024, all January 2024 Prefunded Warrants had been exercised in full. The January 2024 Warrants are exercisable for a period of five years following the date of issuance.
Pursuant to an engagement letter, dated as of August 7, 2023, as amended October 11, 2023, by and between the Company and H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC ("H.C. Wainwright"), the Company paid H.C. Wainwright a total cash fee of $245,000 equal to 7.0% of the gross proceeds received in the January 2024 Offering. The Company also paid H.C. Wainwright a management fee of $35,000 equal to 1.0% of the gross proceeds raised in the January 2024 Offering and certain expenses incurred in connection with the January Offering. In addition, the Company issued to H.C. Wainwright's designees warrants to purchase up to an aggregate 471 shares of common stock (the "January 2024 Placement Agent Warrants"), which represents 7.0% of the aggregate number of shares of common stock and January 2024 Prefunded Warrants sold in the January 2024 Offering. The January 2024 Placement Agent Warrants have substantially the same terms as the January 2024 Warrants, except that the January 2024 Placement Agent Warrants have an exercise price equal to $650.00, or 125% of the offering price per share of common stock and related January 2024 Warrant sold in the January 2024 Offering and expire on the fifth anniversary from the date of the commencement of sales in the January 2024 Offering.
The gross proceeds to the Company from the January 2024 Offering were $3,500,000. The Company incurred offering costs of $711,031.
May 2024 Bridge Note Financing
On May 31, 2024, the Company entered into a Note Purchase Agreement with an accredited investor (the "NPA"), and a Securities Purchase Agreement with three accredited investors (the "SPA"). This transaction closed on June 3, 2024. Debt issuance costs related to the NPA and SPA totaled $212,654. Under the terms of the NPA, the first investor provided the Company with a $1,000,000 cash subscription in exchange for the issuance of a senior secured note. As of December 31, 2024, a total of $1,176,470 was repaid to the NPA investors. The difference between such note and the subscription amount, initially recorded as a discount on the notes, was the result of the discount factor included in the NPA of approximately 17.6%.
Under the terms of the SPA, the three additional investors agreed to collectively provide the Company with a separate $1,000,000 cash subscription in exchange for the issuance of senior secured notes ($333,333 each), and the collective issuance of 1,451 shares of the Company's common stock. The fair value of the common stock issued in connection with the SPA was $307,563. As of December 31, 2024, a total of $1,111,110 was repaid to the SPA investors. The difference between such notes and the subscription amounts, initially recorded as a discount on the notes, was the result of the discount factor included in the SPA of 11.11%.
Interest expense recorded on the NPA and SPAs was $807,797 for the year ended December 31, 2024, including debt issuance costs related to the NPA and SPA totaling $212,654.
June 2024 Public Offering
On June 28, 2024, the Company sold in a public offering ( the "June 2024 Offering"), (i) 11,541 common units (the "Common Units"), each consisting of one share of common stock, two Class C Warrants and one Class D Warrant and (ii) 95,815 prefunded warrants (the "Prefunded Units"), each consisting of one prefunded warrant to purchase one share of common stock (each, a "June 2024 Prefunded Warrant"), two Class C Warrants and one Class D Warrant to purchase Common Shares. Aegis Capital Corp. ("Aegis") partially exercised its over-allotment option in respect to 13,573 Class C Warrants and 6,787 Class D Warrants (the Over-Allotment Warrants). The Common Units were sold at a price of $81.50 per unit and the Prefunded Warrants were sold at a price of $81.495 per unit. As of December 31, 2024, all June 2024 Prefunded Warrants had been exercised in full.
Pursuant to an engagement letter dated June 6, 2024, by and between the Company and Aegis, the Company paid Aegis a total cash fee of $743,750 equal to 8.5% of the gross proceeds received in the June 2024 Offering.
The gross proceeds to the Company from the June 2024 Offering were $8,569,075. The Company incurred offering costs of $1,133,419.
April 2025 Private Placement
On April 7, 2025, the Company entered into inducement letter agreements with certain existing holders of the Company's Class C Warrants, pursuant to which such holders agreed to purchase an aggregate of 1,085,106 shares of the Company's common stock (or, to the extent the applicable holder would have exceeded a specified beneficial ownership limitation, prefunding the future exercise of such warrants, other than a remaining $0.0001 per share exercise price). The Class C Warrants were originally issued on June 28, 2024 for an exercise price of $98.00 per share and were subsequently reduced to $16.30 per share pursuant to stockholder approval on August 21, 2024. Pursuant to the inducement letter agreements, the applicable holders agreed to exercise their Series C Warrants at a reduced exercise price of $3.42 per share, and to purchase an equivalent number of new Class E Warrants for an additional $0.125 per share. The Class E Warrants have an exercise price of $3.42 per share and expire on April 8, 2030.
The transaction closed on April 8, 2025. The exercise of the Class C Warrants resulted in the Company issuing 682,203 shares of common stock at closing pursuant to the inducement letters, and the exercise price of 402,903 of the Class C Warrants being amended to 0.0001 per share. As of September 30, 2025, all such reduced exercise price Class C Warrants had been exercised.
The gross proceeds to the Company from the exercise of the Class C Warrants and the sale of the new Class E Warrants were $3,846,692 million. The Company incurred total offering costs of $464,670, including a 10% financial advisory fee to Aegis Capital Corp. of $384,670.
The modification of the terms or conditions of the Class C Warrants in this transaction is treated as an exchange of the original instrument for a new instrument. Using the Black Scholes option pricing model, the fair value of the Series C Warrants immediately prior to the inducement transaction was $479,299 and immediately after the inducement transaction was $1,590,930. In addition, Series E Warrants with a fair value of $1,730,652 were provided as part of the inducement transaction for a purchase price of $135,638. The Company recorded additional equity issuance costs of $2,706,645 related to the modification of the Series C Warrants and issuance of Series E Warrants related to the inducement transaction. As this equity issuance cost was a non-cash transaction, the Company recorded an increase to additional paid-in capital to offset the expense.
October 2025 Private Placement
On October 9, 2025, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement with two institutional investors pursuant to which the Company sold in a private placement (i) an aggregate of 175,000 shares of common stock and prefunded warrants to purchase up to 2,075,000 shares of common stock (the "October 2025 Prefunded Warrants"), and (ii) Series F warrants (the "Series F Warrants") to purchase up to 4,500,000 shares of common stock. The combined price of the securities sold in the private placement was $2.00 per share of common stock (or prefunded warrant in lieu thereof, in which case such price was reduced by $0.0001) and accompanying Series F Warrants to acquire two shares of common stock. The October 2025 Prefunded Warrants are exercisable for shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.0001 per share, are immediately exercisable and expire once exercised in full. The Series F Warrants are exercisable for shares of common stock at an exercise price of $1.75 per share, are immediately exercisable and expire five and one-half years from the date of issuance.
The transaction closed on October 10, 2025. The gross proceeds to the Company from the sale of the securities sold in the private placement were approximately $4.5 million. The Company incurred total offering costs of $542,650, including a 8% financial advisory fee to Rodman and Renshaw LLC ("Rodman"), the placement agent, of approximately $360,000. Under the terms of the Company's engagement letter with Rodman, the Company issue Rodman's designees warrants to purchase up to 180,000 of common stock at an exercise price of $2.50 per share, which expire 5.5 years from the date of issuance (the "October 2025 Placement Agent Warrants").
In connection with the private placement, the Company entered into a registration rights agreement with the two institutional investors. Pursuant to which the Company agreed to register for resale, at the Company's expense, the 175,000 shares of common stock sold in the private placement and the 6,755,000 shares of common stock collectively exercisable pursuant to the October 2025 Prefunded Warrants, the Series F Warrants and the October 2025 Placement Agent Warrants. The Company agreed to (i) file such a resale registration statement by October 24, 2025, (ii) use its best efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), as promptly as possible after filing (and in no event later than certain dates specified in the registration rights agreement, depending on the circumstances), and (iii) use its best efforts to keep such resale registration statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date that all shares of common stock registered thereunder have been sold or may be sold without registration under Rule 144. Failure by the Company to meet the filing deadlines and other requirements set forth in the registration rights agreement (including successfully registering the applicable shares) would subject the Company to liquidated damages amounts payable to the purchasers in the private placement. Such liquidated damages would generally be calculated as a monthly payment in the amount of 2% of the portion of the subscribed amount that has not been registered as of the applicable monthly calculation date, capped at an overall amount equal to 20% of the total $4,500,000 subscribed amount.
Pursuant to the terms of the purchase agreement, the Company generally may not, until the date that is 90 calendar days after the date that the resale registration statement has been declared effective by the SEC, issue or enter into agreements to issue shares of common stock or securities convertible into or exercisable for common stock. In addition, the purchase agreement provides that until the date that is one year following the date that the resale registration statement is declared effective by the SEC, the Company may not, without the prior written consent of investors who purchased a majority of the securities sold in the private placement, (i) engage in certain "variable rate transactions" (as defined in the purchase agreement) related to its securities, or (ii) undertake a reverse or forward stock split or recapitalization, other than in the good faith determination of the Company's board of directors to maintain its listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market.
Recently Adopted Accounting Standards
See Note 2 to our condensed consolidated financial statements (under the caption "Recently Adopted Accounting Standards").
Emerging Growth Company and Smaller Reporting Company Status
We are an emerging growth company, as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the "JOBS Act"). Under the JOBS Act, emerging growth companies can delay adopting new or revised accounting standards issued subsequent to the enactment of the JOBS Act until such time as those standards apply to private companies. We elected to use this extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards that have different effective dates for public and private companies until the earlier of the date that we (i) are no longer an emerging growth company or (ii) affirmatively and irrevocably opt out of the extended transition period provided in the JOBS Act. As a result, these condensed consolidated financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply with the new or revised accounting pronouncements as of public company effective dates. We are using the extended transition period for any other new or revised accounting standards during the period in which we remain an emerging growth company.
We will remain an emerging growth company until the earliest of (i) the last day of our first fiscal year (a) following the fifth anniversary of the completion of IPO (November 2021), (b) in which we have total annual gross revenues of at least $1.07 billion or (c) in which we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer, which means the market value of our common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the prior June 30th and (ii) the date on which we have issued more than $1 billion in non-convertible debt securities during the prior three-year period.
We are also a "smaller reporting company," meaning that the market value of our stock held by non-affiliates is less than $700 million and our annual revenue is less than $100 million during the most recently completed fiscal year. We may continue to be a smaller reporting company if either (i) the market value of our stock held by non-affiliates is less than $250 million or (ii) our annual revenue is less than $100 million during the most recently completed fiscal year and the market value of our stock held by non-affiliates is less than $700 million. If we are a smaller reporting company at the time we cease to be an emerging growth company, we may continue to rely on exemptions from certain disclosure requirements that are available to smaller reporting companies. Specifically, as a smaller reporting company we may choose to present only the two most recent fiscal years of audited financial statements in our Annual Reports on Form 10-K and, similar to emerging growth companies, smaller reporting companies have reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation.
JOBS Act Accounting Election
The JOBS Act provides that an "emerging growth company" can take advantage of the extended transition period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for complying with new or revised accounting standards. In other words, an "emerging growth company" can delay the adoption of certain accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply to private companies. We have irrevocably elected not to avail ourselves of this extended transition period and, as a result, we will adopt new or revised accounting standards on the relevant dates on which adoption of such standards is required for other public companies.
We have implemented all new accounting pronouncements that are in effect and may impact our financial statements and we do not believe that there are any other new accounting pronouncements that have been issued that might have a material impact on our financial position or results of operations.