TaoWeave, Inc.

Overview

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

Mezzanine™*** Product Offerings***

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

Historically, customers have generally used Mezzanine™ products in traditional office and operating center environments such as conference rooms or other presentation spaces. As discussed below, revenue declines for our Mezzanine™ products are primarily due to lower demand, largely a consequence of the commercial reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic and its prolonged effects. We believe the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally altered the way businesses consider the use of physical office spaces and, consequently, the demand for technologies that enable in-person collaboration within these spaces. Our analysis indicates that the reduced demand for our Mezzanine™ products, particularly in the aftermath of COVID-19*,* reflects a broader reassessment among our customers regarding the necessity and investment in collaboration solutions tailored for traditional office environments. Continuation of this trend could cause further declines in our revenue for this business. Although we cannot presently quantify the future financial impacts of this trend, such impacts will likely continue to have a material adverse impact on the Company’s consolidated financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.

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Managed Services for Network

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

Managed Services for Video Collaboration

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

Sales and Marketing

We sell globally through direct customer sales and channel partners. To preserve capital, the Company significantly reduced its investments in sales and marketing during the last several years. For the years ended December 31, 2024, and 2023, sales and marketing expenses were $181,000 and $309,000, respectively.

Customers

The majority of our revenue for the years ended December 31, 2024, and 2023 was generated from direct sales, with the remainder sold through distribution channels. These channels include systems integrators, channel partners, other resellers, and distributors. Sales to these service providers have been characterized by large and sporadic purchases and longer sales cycles. Historically, we have seen fluctuations in our gross margins based on changes in the balance of our distribution channels.

A significant portion of our revenue is generated from a limited number of customers. For the years ended December 31, 2024, and 2023, one major customer accounted for 84.9% and 55.9% of the Company’s total consolidated revenue, respectively. The composition of our significant customers will vary from period to period, and we expect that most of our revenue will continue, for the foreseeable future, to come from a relatively small number of customers. Consequently, our financial results may fluctuate significantly from period to period based on the actions of one or more significant customers.

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Competition

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

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

Intellectual Property

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

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

Research and Development

During the years ended December 31, 2024, and 2023, the Company incurred research and development expenses of $155,000 and $20,000, respectively, related to developing features and enhancements to our Mezzanine™ product offerings.

Employees

As of December 31, 2024, we had 7 total full-time employees. Our human capital resources objectives include, as applicable, identifying, recruiting, retaining, incentivizing, and integrating our existing and new employees, advisors, and consultants. Our compensation program is designed to attract, retain, and motivate highly qualified employees and executives and is comprised of a mix of competitive base salary, bonus, and equity compensation awards, as well as other employee benefits. Our employees are not covered by a collective bargaining agreement, and we consider our relations with our employees to be good. We are committed to diversity and inclusion as well as equitable pay within our workforce. In addition, the health and safety of our employees, customers, and communities are of primary concern to us.

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Strategy

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

Our exploration of strategic alternatives is diverse, encompassing the consideration of a range of transformative actions. These include the possibility of a business combination, where we might merge with or be acquired by another company; a reverse merger, where a private company merges with us to become public without going through the traditional initial public offering process; or outright sale of the company. Each option is being carefully evaluated to ensure it aligns with our overarching goal of sustainable growth and value creation.

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

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

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

Corporate History

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

Available Information

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

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

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