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BIOLARGO, INC.

For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Mar 31, 2025.

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FY2024 · Filed Mar 31, 2025

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Item 8. Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Westminster, California:

Opinion on the Consolidated Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of BioLargo, Inc. and Subsidiaries (the "Company"), as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss, stockholders' equity and cash flows for the years then ended and the related notes (collectively referred to as the "consolidated financial statements"). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Going Concern

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company has suffered recurring losses from operations, has negative cash flow from operations and has a significant accumulated deficit. These matters raise substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. Management's plans in regard to these matters are also described in Note 1. The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

Basis for Opinion

These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's consolidated financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) ("PCAOB") and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

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We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matters

The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of the critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.

Fair Value of Stock Options and Warrants-Critical Audit Matter Description

As more fully described in Notes 2, 5 and 10 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company issues options from both BioLargo, Inc. as well as its partially-owned subsidiary, Clyra Medical. Management uses the Black-Scholes option-pricing model to estimate the fair value of its stock options and warrants. The Black-Scholes option-pricing model involves the use of significant estimates, including the following:

-Risk-free interest rate;
-Expected stock price volatility;
-Expected dividend yield; and
-Expected life of the award.

In addition, management discounts the estimated fair value of the Clyra Medical stock options because the partially-owned subsidiary is a private company with no secondary market for its common stock. Given the significant estimates involved in estimating the fair value of stock options and warrants, the related audit effort in evaluating management’s estimates in determining the fair value of stock options and warrants was extensive and required a high degree of auditor judgment.

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How the Critical Audit Matter was Addressed in the Audit

We obtained an understanding over the Company's process to estimate the fair value of stock options and warrants, including how the Company develops each of the estimates required to utilize the Black-Scholes option- pricing model. We applied the following audit procedures related to testing the Company's estimates utilized in the Black-Scholes option-pricing model:

-We compared the Company's risk-free interest rate used to the comparable United States Treasury yield for a term comparable to the stock options' and warrants' expected term.
-We recalculated the Company's historical stock price volatility for a term comparable to the stock options' and warrants' expected term. For Clyra Medical, we recalculated a comparable public company's historical share price volatility for a term comparable to the stock options' and warrants' expected term.
-We performed a look-back at the Company's previously issued dividends, noting there were none. We inquired with management of the Company who informed us that no future dividends were currently anticipated.
-We agreed the expected term of stock options and warrants granted to employees and nonemployees to the original contractual term of the option as management deems it likely they will remain outstanding for the entire original term. We further noted that this was consistent with historical options granted.

In addition, we reviewed management's analysis over the fair value of the common stock price and discount that was used on the estimated fair value of the Clyra Medical stock options and warrants. We noted that Clyra Medical is a private company and therefore its common stock is not actively traded. We reviewed both the common stock and preferred stock sales history of Clyra Medical, noting the last sales prices. Management concluded that both the illiquidity and lack of marketability warranted a discount to the estimated fair value calculated using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. From our review of the common stock sales history of Clyra Medical, we noted that the infrequent common stock sales support management's assertions of both illiquidity and lack of marketability. We further researched published articles on valuation discounts and noted that the liquidity and lack of marketability discount used by management was within a reasonable range.

/S/ HACKER, JOHNSON & SMITH PA

Tampa, Florida

We have served as the Company's auditor since 2023.

March 31, 2025

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