UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K
☒ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the Fiscal Year Ended December 31,2024
OR
☐ 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:001-40218
VEEA INC.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 98-1577353 |
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| (State or other jurisdiction of | (I.R.S. Employer |
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| incorporation or organization) | Identification No.) |
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| 164 E. 83rd Street New York, NY | 10028 |
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| (Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) |
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Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:(212) 535-6050
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
| Title of each class | Trading Symbol(s) | Name of each exchange on which registered |
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| Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share | VEEA | The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC |
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| Warrants, each exercisable for one share of Common Stock at a price of $11.50, subject to adjustment | VEEAW | The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC |
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Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. ☐ Yes ☒No
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. ☐ Yes ☒No
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
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). ☒Yes ☐ No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of large accelerated filer, accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, and emerging growth company in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
| Large Accelerated Filer | ☐ | Accelerated Filer | ☐ |
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| Non-Accelerated Filer | ☒ | Smaller Reporting Company | ☒ |
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| Emerging Growth Company | ☒ |
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report.☐
If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark, whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements.☐
Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b). ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). ☐ Yes☒ No
The aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates computed by reference to the price at which the common equity was last sold, or the average bid and asked price of such common equity, as of the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, June 28, 2024, was $83,794,294.5.
As of March 14, 2025, there were 36,440,377 shares of the registrant’s common stock outstanding.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| PART I |
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| ITEM 1. | BUSINESS. | 1 |
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| ITEM 1A. | RISK FACTORS. | 17 |
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| ITEM 1B. | UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS. | 49 |
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| ITEM 1C. | CYBERSECURITY. | 49 |
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| ITEM 2. | PROPERTIES. | 50 |
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| ITEM 3. | LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. | 50 |
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| ITEM 4. | MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES. | 50 |
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| PART II |
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| ITEM 5. | MARKET FOR THE REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES | 51 |
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| ITEM 6. | [RESERVED] | 52 |
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| ITEM 7. | MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS. | 53 |
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| ITEM 7A. | QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK. | 64 |
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| ITEM 8. | FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTAL DATA. | 64 |
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| ITEM 9. | CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE. | 64 |
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| ITEM 9A. | CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES. | 65 |
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| ITEM 9B. | OTHER INFORMATION. | 65 |
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| ITEM 9C. | DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS. | 65 |
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| PART III |
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| ITEM 10. | DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE. | 66 |
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| ITEM 11. | EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION. | 72 |
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| ITEM 12. | SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS. | 76 |
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| ITEM 13. | CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE. | 78 |
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| ITEM 14. | PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES. | 82 |
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| PART IV |
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| ITEM 15. | EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SCHEDULES | F-1 |
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FREQUENTLY USED TERMS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION
As used in this Annual Report, unless otherwise noted or the context otherwise requires, references to:
| ● | “Board” means the board of directors of the Company. |
| ● | “Business Combination Agreement” means that certain Business Combination Agreement, dated November 27, 2023, as amended on June 13, 2024 and September 13, 2024, by and among Plum, the Merger Sub, and Private Veea. |
| ● | “Business Combination” means the Domestication, the merger and the other transactions closed on September 13, 2024, pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement. |
| ● | “Charter” means the certificate of incorporation, as amended, of the Company as in effect on the date of this Annual Report. |
| ● | “Class A ordinary shares” means the Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, of Plum, which converted by operation of law into shares of Common Stock, on a one-for-one basis, in connection with the domestication. |
| ● | “Class B ordinary shares” or “founder shares” means the Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, of Plum that were initially issued to the Plum Sponsor in a private placement prior to the Plum Initial Public Offering and subsequently converted into Class A ordinary shares on September 13, 2024 prior to the Closing. |
| ● | “Closing Date” means September 13, 2024. |
| ● | “Closing” means the closing of the Business Combination. |
| ● | “Common Stock” means the common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company. |
| ● | “Company” means Veea Inc., a Delaware corporation. |
| ● | “DGCL” means the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. |
| ● | “Domestication” means the transfer by way of continuation and deregistration of Plum from the Cayman Islands and the continuation and domestication of Plum as a corporation incorporated in the State of Delaware in connection with the Merger. |
| ● | “GAAP” means the United States generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied. |
| ● | “Governing Documents” means the Company’s (i) Restated Certificate of Association and (ii) Bylaws. |
| ● | “Incentive Equity Plan” means the Company’s 2024 Incentive Equity Plan. |
| ● | “Nasdaq” means The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC. |
| ● | “Plum Initial Public Offering” means Plum’s Initial Public Offering that was consummated on March 15, 2021. |
| ● | “Plum Sponsor” means Plum Partners LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. |
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| ● | “Plum” means Plum Acquisition Corp. I, a Cayman Islands exempted company, prior to the consummation of the Business Combination. |
| ● | “Private Placement Warrants” means the warrants that were issued to the Plum Sponsor simultaneously with the consummation of Plum’s Initial Public Offering. |
| ● | “Private Veea” means VeeaSystems. |
| ● | “Public Warrants” means the redeemable warrants sold as part of the Units in Plum’s Initial Public Offering or acquired in the secondary market. |
| ● | “SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
| ● | “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. |
| ● | “Transfer Agent” means Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, a New York limited purpose trust company. |
| ● | “Trust Account” means the trust account established at the consummation of the Plum Initial Public Offering, containing the proceeds of the Plum Initial Public Offering and from the sale of Private Placement Warrants. |
| ● | “VeeaSystems” means VeeaSystems Inc. (prior to the Closing, Veea Inc.), a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. |
| ● | “Warrant Agreement” that certain Warrant Agreement, dated as of March 18, 2021, by and between Plum and Continental, as the warrant agent, which sets forth the expiration and exercise price of and procedure for exercising the Warrants. |
| ● | “Warrants” means the Public Warrants and the Private Placement Warrants. |
Unless specified otherwise, amounts in this Annual Report are presented in U.S. dollars.
Defined terms in the financial statements contained in this Annual Report have the meanings ascribed to them in the financial statements.
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Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements
This Annual Report contains forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding, among other things, the plans, strategies and prospects, both business and financial, of the Company. These statements are based on the beliefs and assumptions, whether or not identified in this Annual Report, of the management of the Company. Although the Company believes that its plans, intentions and expectations reflected in or suggested by these forward-looking statements are reasonable, the Company cannot assure you that it will achieve or realize these plans, intentions or expectations. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Generally, statements that are not historical facts, including statements concerning possible or assumed future actions, business strategies, events or results of operations, and any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. These statements may be preceded by, followed by or include the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “could,” “continue,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “project,” “scheduled,” “seek,” “should,” “will” or similar expressions, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements contained in this Annual Report include, but are not limited to, statements about the ability of the Company to:
| ● | failure to maintain adequate operational and financial resources or raise additional capital or generate sufficient cash flows; |
| ● | risks related to Veea’s current growth strategy and Veea’s ability to generate revenue and become profitable; |
| ● | market acceptance of Veea’s platform and products; |
| ● | the length and unpredictable nature of Veea’s sales cycles; |
| ● | Veea’s reliance on distribution and partnering arrangements and third-party manufacturers; |
| ● | cybersecurity incidents, security vulnerabilities, and real or perceived errors, failures, defects, or bugs in Veea’s platforms or products; |
| ● | the ability to maintain the listing of our Common Stock and the warrants on Nasdaq, and the potential liquidity and trading of such securities; |
| ● | our public securities’ potential liquidity and trading; |
| ● | the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the Business Combination, which may be affected by, among other things, competition, our ability to grow and manage growth profitably and retain its key employees; |
| ● | the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the Business Combination, which may be affected by, among other things, competition, the ability of the combined company to grow and manage growth profitably and retain its key employees; |
| ● | our success in retaining or recruiting, or changes required in, our officers, key employees or directors following the completion of the Business Combination, and our ability to attract and retain key personnel; |
| ● | macroeconomic conditions; and |
| ● | each of the other factors detailed under the section entitled “Risk Factors.” |
Forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not guarantees of performance. You should not put undue reliance on these statements which speak only as of the date hereof. You should understand that the factors discussed under the heading “Item 1A. Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this Annual Report, could affect the future results of the Company, and could cause those results or other outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements in this Annual Report.
In addition, the risks described under the heading “Item 1A. Risk Factors” are not exhaustive. Other sections of this Annual Report describe additional factors that could adversely affect the businesses, financial conditions, or results of operations of the Company. New risk factors emerge from time to time and it is not possible to predict all such risk factors, nor can the Company assess the impact of all such risk factors on the business of the Company, or the extent to which any factor or combination of factors may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on their behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing cautionary statements. The Company undertakes no obligations to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
In addition, this Annual Report contains statements of belief and similar statements that reflect the beliefs and opinions of the Company on the relevant subject. These statements are based upon information available to the Company as of the date of this Annual Report, and while the Company believes such information forms a reasonable basis for such statements, such information may be limited or incomplete, and statements should not be read to indicate that the Company has conducted an exhaustive inquiry into, or review of, all potentially available relevant information. These statements are inherently uncertain and you are cautioned not to unduly rely upon these statements.
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