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SeaStar Medical Holding Corp

For the period ended Mar 31, 2025. Filed May 14, 2025.

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Mar 31, 2025 · Filed May 14, 2025

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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)

Note 1. Description of Business

Organization and Description of Business

SeaStar Medical Holding Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“SeaStar”) and its wholly owned subsidiary, SeaStar Medical, Inc., are collectively referred to as the“Company”. SeaStar Medical, Inc. was incorporated as a Delaware corporation in June 2007, and it is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The Company is principally engaged in the research, development, and commercialization of a platform medical device technology designed to modulate inflammation in various patient populations. The initial target of this technology is for the treatment of patients with acute kidney injuries ("AKI"), but through additional Breakthrough Design Designation (“BDD”) from the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), has expanded into treatments of patients with cardiorenal syndrome awaiting left ventricular assist device implantation, patients with hepatorenal syndrome, patients with end stage renal disease and adult and pediatric patients undergoing cardiac surgery. The BDD enables the potential for a speedier pathway to approval and the ability to have more frequent and flexible meetings with the FDA.

The Company received FDA approval on February 21, 2024, under a Humanitarian Device Exemption (“HDE”) for our pediatric SCD therapy. It is the only FDA approved product for use in pediatric patients with AKI due to sepsis or a septic condition requiring kidney replacement therapy. We shipped our first commercial pediatric SCD (“QUELIMMUNE”) in July 2024. In addition, we are currently conducting a pivotal clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of the SCD therapy in critically ill adult patients with AKI requiring continuous renal replacement therapy (“CRRT”).

On October 28, 2022, LMF Merger Sub, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of LMF Acquisition Opportunities, Inc., (“LMAO”) merged with and into SeaStar Medical, Inc. (the“Business Combination”), with SeaStar Medical, Inc. surviving the Business Combination as a wholly owned subsidiary of LMAO. Following the consummation of the Business Combination, LMAO was renamed“SeaStar Medical Holding Corporation.”

Basis of Presentation and Consolidation

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for interim reporting. As permitted under those rules and regulations, certain notes or other financial information normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP have been condensed or omitted. The interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared on the same basis as the annual consolidated financial statements and, in the opinion of management, reflect all adjustments, which include only normal, recurring adjustments that are necessary to present fairly the Company’s results for the interim periods presented. The results from operations for the three months ended March 31, 2025, are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the year ending December 31, 2025, or for any future annual or interim period.

The accompanying interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the annual consolidated financial statements and the related notes for the year ended December 31, 2024. There have been no material changes in our significant accounting policies as described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.

The interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include the consolidated accounts of the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, SeaStar Medical, Inc. All significant intercompany transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

On June 7, 2024, the Company effected a 1-for-25 reverse stock split (the“Reverse Stock Split”) of its issued and outstanding shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 (the“common stock”). Following the effect of the Reverse Stock Split, each 25 shares of the Company’s common stock that were issued and outstanding automatically converted into one outstanding share of common stock. Allstock options and warrants of the Company outstanding immediately priorto the Reverse Stock Split were proportionally adjusted except for the Listed Warrants and the private placement warrants that were issued as part of the SPAC transaction that closed on October 28, 2022, which total 16,788,000 outstanding warrants in the aggregate (the“Unadjusted Warrants”). The Unadjusted Warrants retained an $11.50 exercise price each and require the exercise of 25 warrants to purchase one share of common stock. Unless otherwise indicated, all other share and per share amounts in this quarterly report reflect the effect of the Reverse Stock Split. The par value of the Company’s common stock remained unchanged at $0.0001 per share and the number of authorized shares of common stock remained the same after the Reverse Stock Split.

Segment Information

The Company is comprised of asingle reportable segment, its Device Segment. This organizational structure aligns with how our Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”), the Chief Executive Officer, manages the Company’s business, including resource allocation and performance assessment. The Company is focused entirely on the development, regulatory approval and commercialization of the Company’s adult and pediatric Selective Cytopheretic Devices (SCDs). The Company had a total of 19 employees at March 31, 2025, and total assets of $7.6 million and $4.7 million, as of March 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024, respectively

For segment reporting purposes, the CODM uses operating profit/(loss) to evaluate segment performance and allocate resources. As a Company that only recently began limited commercial sales of QUELIMMUNE, the CODM is primarily focused on evaluating the overall spending for research and development activities needed to fund further development of the SCDs, and general and administrative activities incurred to support the research and development activities of the Company. Accounting policies associated with the Company’s sole segment are the same as those described in Note 2.

All of the Company’s sales are located within the United States. As of the date of this report, the Company has obtained regulatory approval for commercial sales in the U.S. of QUELIMMUNE from the FDA. The Company does not have any inter-entity sales or transfers.

Liquidity and Going Concern

The Company incurred losses of $3.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025. As of March 31, 2025, the Company has an accumulated deficit of $143.3 million and cash of$5.3 million. The Company does not believe that its cash on hand will be sufficient to enable it to fund its operations, including clinical trial expenses and capital expenditure requirements for at least 12 months from the issuance of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. The Company believes that these conditions raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.

The Company’s need for additional capital will depend in part on the scope and costs of its development activities. To date, the Company has generated very little revenue from the sales of its commercialized product, QUELIMMUNE. Its ability to generate meaningful product revenue will depend on the successful launch of QUELIMMUNE and development and eventual commercialization of the adult SCD. Until such time, if ever, it expects to finance its operations through the sale of equity or debt, borrowing under credit facilities, or through potential collaborations, other strategic transactions or government and other grants. Adequate capital may not be available to the Company when needed or on acceptable terms.

If the Company is unable to raise capital, it could be forced to delay, reduce, suspend, or cease its research and development programs or any future commercialization efforts, which would have a negative impact on its business, prospects, operating results and financial condition. The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern and do not include adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty. This basis of accounting contemplates the recovery of the Company’s assets and the satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business.

Risks and Uncertainties

The Company is subject to risks common to early-stage companies in the medical technology industry including, butnot limited to, new medical and technological innovations, dependence on key personnel, protection of proprietary technology, and product liability. There can be no assurance that the Company’s products or services will be accepted in the marketplace, nor can there be any assurance that any future products or services can be developed or deployed at an acceptable cost and with appropriate performance characteristics, or that such products or services will be successfully marketed, if at all. These factors could have a materially adverse effect on the Company’s future financial results, financial position and cash flows.

Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Use of Estimates

The preparation of the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates, assumptions and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the period. Significant estimates include the (i) valuation of the liability classified warrants, (ii) provision for income taxes, (iii) convertible debt measured at fair value, (iv) unbilled clinical trial costs, and (v) stock-based compensation expense. Although actual results could differ from those estimates, such estimates are developed based on the best information available to management and management’s best judgments at the time.

Concentrations of Credit Risk

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to a significant concentration of credit risk consist primarily of cash. Periodically, the Company may maintain deposits in financial institutions in excess of government insured limits. Any loss incurred or a lack of access to such funds could have a significant adverse impact on the Company’s financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.

Accounts Receivable, net

The need for a credit loss allowance is evaluated each reporting period based on the Company’s assessment of the credit worthiness of its customers or any other potential circumstances that could result in a credit loss. The Company uses an aging schedule method for estimating expected credit losses. As the Company just commenced commercial operations since July 1, 2024, with a limited customer base, the Company’s estimates are based on customer specific facts, until such time that the Company has developed sufficient collection history data in which to apply a portfolio-wide expected credit loss estimate based on an aging schedule (see Note 4).

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The following provides a summary of those assets or liabilities for which the Company is required to measure at fair value either on a recurring basis, the valuation techniques and summary of inputs used to arrive at the measure of fair value. Changes in fair value of these assets or liabilities are recognized as a component of net income in the consolidated statements of operations. Changes in fair value of these assets or liabilities are considered unrealized gains or losses and therefore are classified as non-cash adjustments to reconcile net income to operating cash flows. Significant increases (decreases) in unobservable inputs used in fair value measurements could, in isolation, potentially result in a significantly lower or higher valuation for those assets or liabilities requiring recurring fair value measurements at each reporting date.

The Company uses a Black-Scholes option pricing model to estimate the fair value of liability classified warrants, using standard option pricing inputs such as the strike price of each warrant tranche, estimated volatility, time to maturity, and the risk-free interest rate. The risk-free interest rate is the U.S. Treasury rate at the date of issuance, and the time to maturity is based on the contractual life at the date of issuance, which is an interpolated value based on the remaining term of each individual instrument. The change in fair value of the liability classified warrants ineach reporting period is recorded to the change in fair value of liability classified warrants in the consolidated statements of operations.

Revenue Recognition

Overall

Under ASC Topic 606, the Company recognizes revenue when a customer obtains control of promised goods or services, in an amount that reflects the consideration that the Company expects to receive in exchange for those goods or services. To determine revenue recognition for arrangements that the Company determines are within the scope of Topic 606, the Company evaluates the following criteria: (i) identify the contract with a customer; (ii) identify the performance obligations in the contract; (iii) determine the transaction price, including variable consideration, if any; (iv) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; and (v) recognize revenue when (or as) performance obligations are satisfied.

At contract inception, once the contract is determined to be within the scope of ASC 606, the Company assesses whether the goods or services promised within each contract are distinct and, therefore, represent a separate performance obligation. Goods and services that are determined not to be distinct are combined with other promised goods and services until a distinct combined performance obligation is identified. The Company then allocates the transaction price to each performance obligation and recognizes the associated revenue when (or as) each performance obligation is satisfied. The estimate of the transaction price for each contract includes all variable consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled, subject to the constraint on variable consideration. The Company constrains revenue by giving consideration to factors that could otherwise lead to a probable reversal of revenue. Variable consideration is not constrained if the potential reversal of cumulative revenue recognized at the contract level is not significant.

The Company records any payments received from customers prior to the Company fulfilling its performance obligation(s) as contract obligations. Amounts expected to be recognized as revenue within the one year following the balance sheet date are classified as current contract obligations. Amounts not expected to be recognized as revenue within the one year following the balance sheet date are classified as contract obligations, net of current portion. See Note 3 – Revenue and Contract Obligations for further details.

Product Sales Revenue

The Company sells its products directly to end-user qualified customers using the Company’s own internal commercial/sales resources.

Timing of Revenue Recognition – During the brief history (commenced July 2024) of selling QUELIMMUNE, revenue has been recognized based on afreight-on-board destination (“FOB Destination”) requirement, except in limited cases where they are sold freight-on-board shipping point (“FOB Shipping Point”).

Chargebacks, Government Rebates and Discounts – During the brief history of selling QUELIMMUNE commercially, the Company has not agreed to chargebacks, government rebates or discounts.

Returns – Returns are specific to each order, but generally the Company allows for returns of any damaged or non-conforming product within 30 days of receipt of product. Given the (i) overall rate of product shipped that is defective/damaged, (ii) overall volume of sales to individual end-user customers, (iii) expected supply in the customer channel, and (iv) expected usage by customers, the Company does not anticipate that there will be significant risk of material product returns that require recognition.

Variable Consideration – There are currently no other variable consideration elements outside of those already disclosed in this footnote.

Transaction Price – Based on the above, as currently constructed, the Company’s transaction price is fixed, based on the agreed-upon price per each purchase order submitted by each customer. Milestone or up-front payments unique to the distributor were disclosed in Note 3 (also see Notes 11 and 15), and are not expected to be recognized as revenue, but merely returned as a result of a settlement to cease the relationship with the distributor.

Allocation of Consideration – Each sale of QUELIMMUNE is independent of any and all other sales. The entire transaction price for each QUELIMMUNE unit sold is allocated to that unit of QUELIMMUNE, and there are no allocations to services or other performance obligations, as there are no such services or other performance obligations that require the Company to allocate a portion of the transaction price.

The Company will continue to monitor all of the above as the Company continues to commercialize and increase its customer base, which could result in each distributor or end-user customer agreement having its own unique terms and conditions, that will potentially impact the timing and amount of revenue recognition pursuant to U.S. GAAP.

Cost of Goods Sold

Prior to July 2024, the Company manufactured/assembled QUELIMMUNE and adult SCDs only for research oriented and/or clinical trial related activities. Inventory purchased prior to July 2024 was expensed as a period expense at the time of purchase as a research and development expense. Accordingly, all QUELIMMUNE units sold during the three months ended March 31, 2025 had no assigned value and the Company recognizedno cost of goods sold.

As the Company procures inventory in the future, the Company will recognize the cost of materials to inventory. Use of inventory for QUELIMMUNE will be charged to cost of goods sold while inventory used for adult SCDs will be charged to research and development upon shipment.

Emerging Growth Company Status

The Company is an“emerging growth company”, as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (“JOBS Act”). Under the JOBS Act, emerging growth companies can take advantage of an extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards, delaying the adoption of these accounting standards until they would apply to private companies. The Company has elected to use this extended transition period for complying with certain new or revised accounting standards that have different effective dates for public and private companies until the earlier of the date that it is (1) no longer an emerging growth company or (2) affirmatively and irrevocably opt out of the extended transition period provided in the JOBS Act.

Recently issued accounting standards

Accounting Standards Update 2024-03 —In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03 -Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income – Expense Disaggregation (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses. ASU 2024-03 requires the disclosure of additional information related to certain costs and expenses, including amounts of inventory purchases, employee compensation, and depreciation and amortization included in each income statement line item. The ASU is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adopting this guidance on its consolidated financial statements and disclosures.

Accounting Standards Update 2023-09 —In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09 Income Taxes (Topic 740) Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. ASU 2023-09 enhances the transparency and decision usefulness of income tax disclosures. The amendments in this update are effective for public business entities for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently assessing the impact of this guidance on its consolidated financial statements and disclosures, however the impact from the adoption of this guidance, if any, will not be reflected until the Company's Annual Report to Form 10-K for the year-ended December 31, 2025, due to the Company's net loss position and 100% valuation allowance for all deferred tax assets.

Note 3. Revenues and Contract Obligations

The Company currently only sells a single product, QUELIMMUNE, which has been approved under a Humanitarian Device Exemption (“HDE”) by the FDA for use with pediatric patients for treatments allowed under approved therapeutic indications. The Company can only sell QUELIMMUNE kits directly to qualified healthcare facilities (the “Customers”) that have qualified as capable of receiving and utilizing QUELIMMUNE in accordance with the terms of the HDE.

Each sale to a customer is independent from any past or future sales to that customer. Revenue is recognized at the point in time that control of the product transfers to the customer, which typically aligns with the shipping terms defined by each individual purchase order. Most sales are shipped “free-on-board” destination.

There are no up-front payments, material post-sale performance obligations, license agreements or other arrangements that could require the Company to defer a portion of the transaction price and recognize on a basis that is different from that of the physical transfer of QUELIMMUNE to the customer. See Note 2 for the Company's accounting policy relating to revenue recognition under ASC 606 -Revenue from Contracts with Customers.

The Company had no contract assets for the periods ended March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024. The accounting policies used to measure the profit and loss of the segment are the same as those described in the summary of significant accounting policies.

Revenue by Geographic Location

The Company’s sales are entirely in the United States of America, as it does not have any regulatory approval to sell elsewhere as of March 31, 2025.

Note 4. Accounts Receivable, net

The table below presents the opening and closing balances of accounts receivable, on a gross and net basis, with the total change in expected credit losses.

($ in thousands)Accounts Receivable, GrossExpected Credit LossesAccounts Receivable, Net
December 31, 2024$112$—$112
Change in accounts receivable, net1(3)(2)
March 31, 2025$113$(3)$110

Note 5. Accrued Expenses

Accrued expenses consisted of the following amounts as of March 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024:

($ in thousands)March 31,2025December 31,2024
Accrued bonus$1,621$1,391
Accrued director compensation487391
Accrued research and development8301,023
Other317383
Total accrued expenses$3,255$3,188

Note 6. Notes Payable

Insurance Financing

In October 2024, the Company entered into a financing arrangement with a lender to finance a portion of the annual premium of an insurance policy in the amount of $0.7 million. The Company paid approximately $0.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, and will pay the remaining balance over five monthly installments of principal and interest totaling approximately $0.4 million with the last payment to be paid in August 2025.

Note 7. Equity Transactions

February 2025 Offering

In January 2025, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with an institutional investor (the "Q1 2025 SPA"), pursuant to which the Company issued on February 3, 2025, to the investor, (i) in a registered direct offering,713,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, and pre-funded warrants to purchase 2,816,412 shares of Common Stock (the "February Pre-Funded Warrants") with an exercise price of $0.0001 per share, and (ii) in a concurrent private placement, warrants to purchase 3,529,412 shares of common stock with an exercise price of $1.70 (“February 2025 Common Warrants”). Such registered direct offering and concurrent private placement are referred to herein as the “February 2025 Offering".

The Company received aggregate gross proceeds from the February 2025 Offering of approximately $6.0 million, before deducting fees to H.C. Wainwright & Co. (“Wainwright”) and other estimated offering expenses payable by the Company. The Pre-Funded Warrants will not expire and are exercisable upon issuance and at any time until all of the Pre-Funded Warrants are exercised in full. As of March 31, 2025, a total of 2,070,412 pre-funded warrants were exercised, leaving 746,000 pre-funded warrants outstanding. The February 2025 Common Warrants became exercisable on March 28, 2025, the effective date of stockholder approval for the issuance of the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants and expire on March 28, 2030.

In connection with the February 2025 Offering, the Company amended the exercise price of the warrants issued in conjunction with the January 2024 Offering, (the “Series A and Series B common warrants” (collectively “January 2024 Warrants”), issued in a financing transaction with the institutional investor in January 2024, to $1.70 from the original exercise price of $20.76. Furthermore, the original expiration date of June 4, 2025, for the 216,816 Series B warrants of the January 2024 Warrants was extended to January 30, 2029, upon stockholder approval on March 28, 2025. With the amendment to the expiration date, all of the January 2024 Warrants now expire in 2029.

The Company paid approximately $0.4 million in fees to Wainwright and issued 247,059 warrants (the "February 2025 PA Warrants") to purchase shares of the Company's common stock at an exercise price of $2.13. The 2025 PA Warrants were exercisable upon issuance and expire on January 30, 2029. The 2025 PA Warrants and February 2025 Common Warrants are herein defined as the "February 2025 Warrants".

In accordance with ASC 815-40, Derivatives and Hedging-Contracts in Entity’s own Equity, the Company determined that all the different warrants issued or amended in connection with the February 2025 Offering met the conditions for equity classification and were included as a component of stockholders’ equity (deficit).

August 2024 At-The-Market Offering

On August 20, 2024, the Company entered into an At-The-Market Offering Agreement (the“ATM Agreement”) with Wainwright as sales agent, to sell shares of its common stock, from time to time, through an“at the market offering” program under which Wainwright will act as sales agent. The sales, if any, of the Company’s Common Stock made under the ATM Agreement will be made by any method permitted by law deemed to be an“at the market offering” as defined in Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the“Securities Act”), including sales made directly on or through the Nasdaq Capital Market or on any other existing trading market for the Company’s common stock (the“ATM”).

Through March 31, 2025, the Company has raised approximately $5.5 million utilizing the ATM since inception in August 2024, issuing 2,263,643 shares of the Company’s Common Stock. During the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company raised approximately $0.9 million, net of offering costs, issuing 483,755 shares of the Company's common stock.

Note 8. Warrants

The Company issued warrants in connection with various financing transactions. The Company had the following warrants outstanding at March 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024:

March 31, 2025December 31, 2024
Liability Classified Warrants
Private Placement Warrants229,520229,520
PIPE Investor Warrants20,00020,000
Subtotal249,520249,520
Equity Classified Warrants
February 2025 Warrants3,776,471—
February 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants746,000—
July 2024 Warrants1,014,2191,014,219
January 2024 Warrants672,129672,129
Public Stockholders’ Warrants422,000422,000
Legacy Warrants1,9571,957
Subtotal6,632,7762,110,305
Grand Total6,882,2962,359,825

The following tables provide the weighted-average strike price and time to maturity for each warrant share equivalent outstanding for each warrant tranche as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024:

March 31, 2025Warrant Share EquivalentsWeighted-Average Strike PriceWeighted-Average Time to Maturity
Liability Classified Warrants
Private Placement Warrants229,520$287.502.58
PIPE Investor Warrants20,000$287.502.58
Equity Classified Warrants
February 2025 Warrants3,776,471$1.734.99
February 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants746,000$0.00(*)
July 2024 Warrants1,014,219$10.724.28
January 2024 Warrants672,129$2.384.19
Public Stockholders’ Warrants422,000$287.502.58
Legacy SeaStar Inc. Warrants1,957$250.001.13

(*) - the February 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants have a strike price of $0.001 and do not expire.

December 31, 2024Warrant Share EquivalentsWeighted-Average Strike PriceWeighted-Average Time to Maturity
Liability Classified Warrants
Private Placement Warrants229,520$287.502.82
PIPE Investor Warrants20,000$287.502.82
Equity Classified Warrants
July 2024 Warrants1,014,219$10.724.53
January 2024 Warrants672,129$20.833.01
Public Stockholders’ Warrants422,000$287.502.82
Legacy SeaStar Inc. Warrants1,957$250.001.38

Below is the warrant activity for the three months ended March 31, 2025, for those warrants with activity during the three months ended March 31, 2025:

February 2025 WarrantsFebruary 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants
Outstanding as of December 31, 2024——
Issuance3,776,4712,816,412
Exercised—(2,070,412)
Forfeited / cancelled——
Outstanding as of March 31, 20253,776,471746,000

During the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company incurred a gain of approximately $16 thousand from the mark-to-market adjustment for all remaining liability classified warrants.

Note 9. Stock-Based Compensation Awards

The following table sets forth the total stock-based compensation cost included in the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations for the periods indicated:

Three Months Ended March 31,
($ in thousands)20252024
Research and development$23$119
General and administrative145315
Total stock-based compensation$168$434

Equity Incentive Plan - Summary

2022 Omnibus Incentive Plan

The Company’s Board of Directors adopted, and the shareholders approved the 2022 Omnibus Incentive Plan to provide long-term incentive for its employees and non-employee service providers. The vesting of stock options is stated in each individual grant agreement, which is generallyone tofour years. Options granted expire 10 years after the date of grant.

2019 Stock Incentive Plan

The Company’s Board of Directors adopted the 2019 Stock Incentive Plan on February 25, 2019, to provide long-term incentive for its employees and non-employee service providers. The Stock Incentive Plan was terminated on October 28, 2022, and no further awards were granted under such plan.

Stock Options

Option activity for the period ended March 31, 2025, is as follows:

2022 Omnibus Incentive Plan - Stock Options

OptionsWeighted-Average Exercise PriceTotal Intrinsic ValueWeighted-Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years)
Outstanding at December 31, 202413,114$46.00$—8.2
Exercised—
Issued—
Forfeited / cancelled—
Outstanding at March 31, 202513,114$46.00$—8.0
Vested and exercisable at March 31, 202513,114$46.00$—8.0

2019 Omnibus Incentive Plan - Options

OptionsWeighted-Average Exercise PriceTotal Intrinsic ValueWeighted-Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years)
Outstanding at December 31, 20248,817$44.30$—5.5
Exercised—
Issued—
Forfeited / cancelled—
Outstanding at March 31, 20258,817$44.30$—5.2
Vested and exercisable at March 31, 20258,662$44.90$—5.2

Restricted Stock Units

A summary of the Company’s restricted stock unit (“RSU”) activity is as follows:

2022 Omnibus Incentive Plan - RSUs

Number of RSUWeighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value (per share)
Outstanding at December 31, 2024219,500$5.09
Granted—
Vested(7,417)
Forfeited / cancelled—
Outstanding at March 31, 2025212,083$4.64

2019 Stock Incentive Plan - RSUs

Number of RSUWeighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value (per share)
Outstanding at December 31, 2024747$200.00
Granted—
Vested(555)
Forfeited / cancelled—
Outstanding at March 31, 2025192$200.00

Note 10. Commitments and Contingencies

Lease Agreements

The Company is part of a membership agreement for shared office space and can cancel at any time. Rent expense was approximately $21 thousand and $8 thousand for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

Litigation

Liabilities for loss contingencies arising from claims, assessments, litigation, fines, penalties, and other sources are recorded when it is probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount can be reasonably estimated. From time to time, the Company may become involved in legal proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business.

2024 Securities Class Action Lawsuit

On July 5, 2024, Forrest A K Wells (the“Plaintiff”), a purported stockholder of the Company, filed a putative class action complaint in the United States District Court for the State of Colorado, captioned Wells v. SeaStar Medical Holding Corporation et al, Case No. 1:24-cv-0187 (D. Colorado) (the“Class Action”). The Class Action alleges that the Company, its Chief Executive Officer and former Chief Financial Officer made or caused to be made material misstatements or omissions regarding the Company’s business and operations, allegedly culminating in the Company’s restatement of its consolidated financial statements, disclosed in a Form 8-K and filed on March 27, 2024. The Class Action asserts claims pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including Section 10(b), Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder and Section 20(a). The Class Action seeks to recover, among other remedies, compensatory damages. The Company intends to vigorously defend the action.

The Company has not recognized a contingent liability for this Class Action event as it does not qualify for the recognition criteria under ASC 450 -Contingencies.

Note 11. Fair Value Measurements

Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date (exit price). Inputs used to measure fair value are classified into the following hierarchy:

Level 1 – quoted prices in active markets for identical assets and liabilities.

Level 2 – other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities, interest rate, credit risk, etc.).

Level 3 – significant unobservable inputs (including the Company’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of assets and liabilities).

The fair value of the warrants liability is classified as Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy.

Fair Value Measurement Hierarchy

The following table presents the Company’s financial assets and/or liabilities that were accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, by level within the fair value hierarchy. There were no non-recurring fair value measurements, as the Company does not have any long-lived assets, including fixed assets, intangible assets, or goodwill which can require non-recurring measurements for impairment.

Summary of Level 3 Input Changes

(Level 1)(Level 2)(Level 3)Total
Liabilities:
Liability classified warrants$—$—$17$17
$—$—$17$17
(Level 1)(Level 2)(Level 3)Total
Liabilities:
Liability classified warrants$—$—$33$33
Total$—$—$33$33

The following table presents the changes in the forward option-prepaid forward contracts, convertible notes measured at fair value, warrants liability, and the notes derivative liability for the period ended March 31, 2025 (in thousands):

Level 3 Roll ForwardLiability Classified Warrants
Balance December 31, 2024$33
Additions—
Cash paid to settle—
Shares issued upon conversion or exercise—
Changes in fair value(16)
Balance March 31, 2025$17

Level 3 Inputs

For assets or liabilities for which the Company is required to remeasure the fair value on a recurring basis at each reporting date, generally the Company is required to disclose certain quantitative data related to the inputs used at the most recent reporting period date. However, for those assets or liabilities for which the Company has elected to take the FVO in accordance with ASC 825, Financial Instruments, then such quantitative disclosures are not required.

Liability Classified Warrants

The liability classified warrants as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, include three classes of warrants, and therefore, the range of assumptions used has been provided. Significant assumptions used in valuing warrants which require liability classification were as follows as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024.

March 31, · December 31,
2025 · 2024
Expected volatility130.00%130.00%
Equivalent term2.5752.825
Risk-free rate3.89%4.27%
Dividend yield0.00%0.00%
Stock price$1.66$1.94
Strike price$287.50$287.50

Note 12. Income Taxes

In accordance with U.S. GAAP, a valuation allowance should be provided if it is more likely than not that some or all of the Company’s deferred tax assets will not be realized. The Company’s ability to realize the benefit of its deferred tax assets will depend on the generation of future taxable income. Except as noted below, due to the uncertainty of future profitable operations and taxable income, the Company has recorded a full valuation allowance against its net deferred tax assets. The Company has recognized an insignificant provision for certain minimum state taxes of approximately $3 thousand as of March 31, 2025.

The Company believes its tax filing position and deductions related to tax periods subject to examination will be sustained under audit and, therefore, has no reserve for uncertain tax positions.

Note 13. Net Loss Per Share

The following table presents the calculation of basic and diluted net loss per share (in thousands except share and per share information):

Three Months Ended March 31,
20252024
Net loss$(3,772)$(12,697)
Weighted-average shares outstanding - basic and diluted8,617,9322,684,243
Basic and diluted net loss per share$(0.44)$(4.73)

The following weighted-average outstanding shares of potentially dilutive securities were excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders for the periods presented because including them would have been anti-dilutive:

As of March 31,
20252024
February 2025 warrants3,776,471—
July 2024 warrants1,014,219—
January 2024 warrants672,129672,129
Investor D warrants—126,323
Public Stockholders’ warrants422,000422,000
Private Placement warrants229,520229,520
PIPE Investor warrants20,00020,000
Legacy warrants1,9571,957
Employee based options to purchase common stock21,7768,531
Unvested employee based restricted stock units212,27512,271
Total6,370,3471,492,731

Note 14. Segment Reporting

The Company is comprised of asingle reportable segment, its Device Segment. This organizational structure aligns with how our Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”), the Chief Executive Officer, manages the Company’s business, including resource allocation and performance assessment. The Company is focused entirely on the development, regulatory approval and commercialization of the Company’s adult and pediatric Selective Cytopheretic Devices (SCDs). The Company had total assets of $7.6 and $4.7 million, as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.

For segment reporting purposes, the CODM uses operating profit/(loss) to evaluate segment performance and allocate resources. As a Company that only recently began limited commercial sales of QUELIMMUNE, the CODM is primarily focused on evaluating the overall spending for research and development activities needed to fund further development of the SCDs, and general and administrative activities incurred to support the research and development activities of the Company. Accounting policies associated with the Company’s sole segment are the same as those described in Note 1.

All of the Company’s sales are located within the United States. As of the date of this report, the Company has obtained regulatory approval for commercial sales in the U.S. of QUELIMMUNE from the FDA. The Company does not have any inter-entity sales or transfers.

The following table represents the Company’s sole segment’s operating results for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

2025 · 2024
Net Revenue$293$—
Cost of goods sold——
Gross profit$293$—
Operating expenses
Research and development2,4311,697
General and administrative1,6842,253
Total operating expenses$4,115$3,950
Loss from operations$(3,822)$(3,950)

(*) - Non-operating expenses consist of interest expense, interest income, and gains and losses from changes in the fair value of liability classified financial instruments such as warrants and convertible debt.

Note 15. Subsequent Events

At-the-Market Offering

From April 2, 2025 through May 12, 2025, the Company raised approximately $0.9 million gross proceeds $0.9 million net of offering costs from the sale of 623,647 shares of the Company's stock through its At-the-Market offering program.

Exercise of February 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants

On April 8, 2025, an investor exercised 402,000 of the February 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants, with proceeds from the exercise totaling $402.00. Only 344,000 February 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants remain unexercised.

Equity Line of Credit Purchase Agreement

Asdisclosed on a Form 8-K on April 25, 2025, the Company entered into a purchase agreement (the “Purchase

Agreement”)and a registration rights agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) with Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC (“Lincoln Park”) pursuant to which Lincoln Park committed to purchase up to $15.0 million in shares of our common stock, $0.0001 par value per share.

Under the terms and subject to the conditions of the Purchase Agreement, the Company has the right, but not the obligation, to sell to Lincoln Park, and Lincoln Park is obligated to purchase, up to $15.0 million in shares of the Company's common stock. Such sales of the Company's common stock, if any, will be subject to certain limitations, and may occur from time to time, at the Company's sole discretion, over the 36-month period commencing on the date that a registration statement covering the resale by Lincoln Park of shares that have been and may be issued under the Purchase Agreement is declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and a final prospectus in connection therewith is filed and the other conditions in the Purchase Agreement are satisfied (the date on which all such conditions are satisfied, the “Commencement Date”).

After the Commencement Date, on any business day, the Company may direct Lincoln Park to purchase up to 40,000 shares of our common stock (each, a “Regular Purchase”); provided that the share amount under a Regular Purchase may be increased to up to 50,000 shares, up to 60,000 shares or up to 75,000 shares if the closing sale price of our common stock is not below $1.00, $1.75 or $2.50, respectively, on the business day on which we initiate the Regular Purchase. However, Lincoln Park’s maximum commitment in any single Regular Purchase may not exceed $500,000. Each Regular Purchase is subject to adjustment for any reorganization, recapitalization, non-cash dividend, stock split, reverse stock split or other similar transaction as provided in the Purchase Agreement. The purchase price per share for each Regular Purchase will be 97% of the lower of (i) the lowest sale price of our common stock on the business day on which we initiate the Regular Purchase and (ii) the average of the three lowest closing sale prices of our common stock during the 10-business day period immediately preceding the business day on which we initiate the Regular Purchase. In addition to Regular Purchases, we may also direct Lincoln Park to purchase other amounts of common stock as accelerated purchases and as additional accelerated purchases, subject to limits specified in the Purchase Agreement, at a purchase price per share calculated as specified in the Purchase Agreement.

Sales of shares of the Company's common stock to Lincoln Park under the Purchase Agreement will depend on a variety of factors to be determined by the Company from time to time, including, among others, market conditions, the trading price of our common stock and our determination as to the appropriate sources of funding for our operations. The Company expects that any proceeds it receives from such sales will be used for working capital and general corporate purposes.

In addition, under applicable Nasdaq rules, the Company may not issue or sell to Lincoln Park under the Purchase Agreement more than 19.99% of the shares of our common stock outstanding immediately prior to the execution of the Purchase Agreement (the “Exchange Cap”), unless (i) the Company obtains stockholder approval to issue shares in excess of the Exchange Cap or (ii) the average price of all applicable sales of our common stock to Lincoln Park under the Purchase Agreement equals or exceeds $1.25 per share (which represents the lower of (A) the official closing price of our common stock on Nasdaq immediately preceding the signing of the Purchase Agreement and (B) the average official closing price of our common stock on Nasdaq for the five consecutive trading days ending on the trading day immediately preceding the date of the Purchase Agreement). In any event, the Purchase Agreement specifically provides that the Company may not issue or sell any shares of its common stock under the Purchase Agreement if such issuance or sale would breach any applicable Nasdaq rules.

Lincoln Park has no right to require the Company to sell any shares of its common stock to Lincoln Park, but Lincoln Park is obligated to make purchases as the Company directs, subject to the conditions and limitations in the Purchase Agreement including beneficial ownership limitations.

In connection with entering into the Purchase Agreement, on April 25, 2025, the Company issued 236,406 shares of its common stock to Lincoln Park in consideration for its commitment to purchase shares under the Purchase Agreement.

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