Annual report [Section 13 and 15(d), not S-K Item 405]

Note 1 - Description of Business

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Note 1 - Description of Business
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Notes to Financial Statements  
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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

 

Super League Enterprise Inc. (“Super League” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: SLE) is an audience intelligence and media activation company operating at the intersection of a 3.5-billion-person global gaming population and a $1 trillion global advertising market. The Company connects brands with consumers who play video games by leveraging an emerging data and activation platform that utilizes behavioral and psychographic signals to drive marketing outcomes. By combining differentiated insights, scaled media distribution, and interactive ad formats, Super League enables marketers to reach gamers—one of the largest and most influential audiences in modern culture—across gaming environments, digital video, social media, and connected television.

 

Super League was incorporated on October 1, 2014 as Nth Games, Inc. under the laws of the State of Delaware and changed its name to Super League Gaming, Inc. on June 15, 2015, and to Super League Enterprise, Inc. on September 11, 2023.

 

On January 16, 2026, the Company filed an amendment (the “2026 Amendment”) to the Company’s Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, to effect a reverse stock split of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Stock”) at a ratio of 1-for-12 (the “2026 Reverse Split”). The Amendment became effective on January 23, 2026. As a result of the 2026 Reverse Split, every 12 shares of the Company’s issued and outstanding common stock was automatically combined and converted into one issued and outstanding share of Common Stock.

 

Refer to Note 7 for additional information on reverse stock splits. 

 

As a result of the 2026 Reverse Split, all references to Common Stock, warrants to purchase common stock and other rights, options to purchase common stock, restricted stock, share data, per share data and related information contained in the consolidated financial statements (hereinafter, “financial statements”) have been retroactively adjusted to reflect the effect of the 2026 Reverse Split for all periods presented.

 

References to “financial statements,” “balance sheets,” “statements of operations,” “statements of cash flows,” and “statements of stockholders’ equity,” refer to the “consolidated financial statements,” “consolidated balance sheets,” “consolidated statements of operations,” “consolidated statements of cash flows” and “consolidated statements of stockholders’ equity,” respectively, of the Company, including the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries, if any. As of December 31, 2025, there were no wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company. The legal entity Mobcrush Streaming, Inc. was dissolved effective May 14, 2025. InPvP, LLC was sold in May 2025 as described at Note 4.

 

All references to “Note,” followed by a number reference, refer to the applicable corresponding numbered footnotes to these financial statements.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

As of December 31, 2025, the Company had cash and cash equivalents, working capital and an accumulated deficit as reflected on the balance sheet provided herein. For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company incurred net losses, and cash outflows from operating activities as reflected in the accompanying statements of operations and cash flows, respectively.

 

Improved Liquidity Due to Third and Fourth Quarter 2025 Restructuring Activities and Equity Financing

 

Equity Financing

 

The Company completed an equity financing, defined below as the October 2025 PIPE, totaling $20.0 million in gross proceeds ($18.5 million in proceeds net of offering costs), as described at Note 7. The proceeds provide significant working capital and liquidity to fund operations and meet the Company’s obligations as they arise. The Company intends to use the proceeds from the October 2025 PIPE for repayment of existing indebtedness totaling $1.5 million (refer to Note 6), implementation of a new corporate strategy, general corporate purposes and working capital.

 

 

Additional Conversions of Debt to Equity

 

During the third and fourth quarters of 2025, holders of an aggregate of approximately $7.4 million of the Company’s outstanding promissory notes exchanged or converted such notes into either common stock or preferred stock of the Company pursuant to (i) executed exchange agreements, or (ii) the existing conversion terms set forth in the underlying promissory note agreements. As a result, the Company eliminated approximately $7.4 million of principal and accrued interest obligations that would otherwise have required cash settlement in future periods, eliminating the Company’s debt obligations and related future cash commitments. Refer to Notes 5 and Note 6 for additional information regarding the exchange or conversion of debt for equity during the year ended December 31, 2025.

 

Operating Cost Reductions

 

Since approximately May 2024, the Company implemented a number of operating expense reduction initiatives designed to decrease future operating cash outflow requirements. These actions included workforce optimization, vendor contract renegotiations, reduced discretionary spending, and restructuring of non-core activities. Excluding noncash charges, these operating expense reductions resulted in a decrease in operating expense of approximately 31% for the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to the year ended December 31, 2024.

 

Considerations as of the Date of Issuance of Financial Statements

 

In connection with preparing the Company’s financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2025, management evaluated whether conditions and events raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date the financial statements are issued, in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 205-40, “Presentation of Financial Statements”—Going Concern (“ASC 205-40”).

 

Based on, (i) cash and cash equivalents on hand as of the issuance date of these financial statements, (ii) net proceeds from the equity financings completed as of December 31, 2025, (iii) elimination of future cash obligations resulting from the conversion of debt into equity, and (iv) realized reductions in operating expense, management believes that the Company will have sufficient liquidity to meet its obligations as they become due for at least the twelve-month period following the issuance date of these financial statements as contemplated by ASC 205-40. Accordingly, management has concluded that substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern has been alleviated.

 

Smaller Reporting Company Status and Disclosure of Critical Audit Matters in the Auditors Opinion

 

We are a “smaller reporting company” as defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Upon the completion of the Company’s initial public offering in February 2019, the Company elected to report as an “emerging growth company” (as defined in the JOBS Act) under the reporting rules set forth under the Exchange Act, which allowed the Company to take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other Exchange Act reporting companies that are not “emerging growth companies,” including but not limited to, the following:

 

 

not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act;

 

taking advantage of extensions of time to comply with certain new or revised financial accounting standards;

 

being permitted to comply with reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in the Company’s periodic reports and proxy statements; and

 

being exempt from the requirement to hold a non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.

 

We were eligible to remain an “emerging growth company” for five years from the date of the Company’s initial public offering, and as such, ceased being an “emerging growth company” as of Fiscal Year 2024. However, as described above the Company continues to be a “smaller reporting company.”

 

As a result of no longer qualifying for “emerging growth company” status, the Company’s independent auditors, commencing with their audit of the Company’s financial statements as of and for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, are required by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) to include a description of Critical Audit Matters (“CAMs”) as a component of their audit opinion commencing with the audit of the Company’s financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2024.

 

A CAM is defined as any matter arising from the audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee, as a component of typical and customary matters required to be communicated to the audit committee each year and that:

 

 

Relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements; and

 

Involved especially challenging, subjective, or complex auditor judgment.

 

The PCAOB requires auditors to communicate with the Company's audit committee regarding certain matters related to the conduct of their audit, including information about the overall audit strategy, timing of the audit and the significant risks identified during the auditor's risk assessment procedures.

 

As described by the PCAOB, CAMs are intended to enhance the auditor’s report to provide audit-specific information that is meaningful to investors and other financial statement users. Further, the purpose of CAMs is to shed light on certain matters in an audit that involved especially challenging, subjective, or complex auditor judgment.

 

For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company’s auditors have included descriptions of CAMs as described in their audit opinion under “Critical Audit Matters.”