(BFRG) Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc. Company Overview

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What does BullFrog AI Holdings do?

BullFrog AI Holdings, Inc. is a small, commercial-stage life-sciences technology company listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under BFRG. It applies artificial intelligence and machine learning to biomedical data, with the goal of improving target identification, drug development decisions, patient stratification, and the probability that therapeutic programs produce useful clinical results. The company reports as one operating segment rather than separate software and biotechnology divisions.

1
Operating segment reported in Q1 2026
9
Full-time employees at December 31, 2025
8
Part-time employees, advisors, and consultants at December 31, 2025
2023
Year of Nasdaq initial public offering

Which products and assets define the company?

The core analytical engine is bfLEAP, technology originally developed at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and licensed to BullFrog. The broader commercial stack now includes BullFrog Data Networks for integrated biomedical-data analysis, bfPREP for cleaning and harmonizing fragmented datasets, and bfARENAS for scenario-based portfolio and clinical-trial decisions. The company also holds rights to early-stage drug assets, including mebendazole formulations for glioblastoma and a Beta2-spectrin siRNA program. The 2025 Form 10-K is the most complete official description of these platforms, licenses, and development programs.

bfLEAP analytics bfPREP data harmonization bfARENAS decision support BullFrog Data Networks Mebendazole assets Beta2-spectrin siRNA
Business element Customer or use Economic role
AI platform services Pharma, biotechnology, and research organizations Project, feasibility, milestone, and potential licensing revenue
Integrated data workflow Teams needing prepared, analyzed, and decision-ready biomedical data A broader commercial offering that can support repeat engagements
Drug-asset enhancement Strategic pharmaceutical buyers or development partners Upfront payments, clinical milestones, asset sales, and royalties if successful

How does BullFrog AI make money?

BullFrog’s model has two related but economically different paths. The first is commercial analytics: a customer supplies a biomedical problem and relevant data, BullFrog prepares and analyzes the information, and the engagement can generate collaboration fees or milestone payments. The second path is asset-oriented: BullFrog acquires or licenses a drug program, uses its technology to identify a better development strategy or responsive patient subgroup, advances the program, and seeks to monetize it through a sale, sublicense, milestones, or royalties.

Step 1Prepare fragmented clinical, omics, and real-world data with bfPREP
Step 2Model relationships and identify targets or biomarkers with bfLEAP
Step 3Compare scenarios and portfolios with bfARENAS
Step 4Earn project fees, milestones, licenses, asset proceeds, or royalties

Why is the March 2026 pharmaceutical agreement important?

On March 30, 2026, BullFrog announced a commercial feasibility agreement with a top-five global pharmaceutical company by 2025 revenue. The work uses bfLEAP to identify and prioritize novel targets in major depressive disorder, includes milestone payments tied to deliverables, and gives the customer an option for exclusive rights to a selected target. The customer name and total contract value were not disclosed, so the agreement should be read as commercial validation rather than as evidence of material near-term revenue. The official commercial agreement announcement describes the scope and exclusivity option.

$116,670FY2025 collaboration revenue, the company’s first reported annual revenue, compared with no revenue in FY2024.

What limits revenue quality today?

The 2025 revenue base was extremely small and concentrated. Cost of collaboration revenue was $94,778, leaving gross profit of $21,892. In addition, the filing states that the consideration associated with the recognized collaboration revenue was non-cash. BullFrog had not recognized revenue under its June 2025 Sygnature Discovery marketing collaboration by year-end. For researchers, the central question is therefore not whether the company has a conceptually attractive revenue model, but whether it can convert pilot work into cash-paying, repeat, and expanding contracts.

What did BullFrog AI’s latest quarter show?

The latest filed financial period is the quarter ended March 31, 2026. BullFrog reported no revenue and no gross profit, but operating expenses declined year over year. The quarter was defined more by financing than operations: equity sales increased cash and restored reported stockholders’ equity above the Nasdaq threshold. The company’s Q1 2026 Form 10-Q provides the period’s complete financial statements.

$0
Revenue, Q1 2026
$(1.59M)
Net loss, Q1 2026
$5.08M
Cash and cash equivalents, March 31, 2026
$4.89M
Stockholders’ equity, March 31, 2026

Did expense discipline improve?

Q1 operating expenses: 2026 versus 2025
G&A, Q1 2025$1.480M
G&A, Q1 2026$1.180M
R&D, Q1 2025$0.576M
R&D, Q1 2026$0.435M
Total operating expenses declined 21.5% to $1.615M in Q1 2026 from $2.057M in Q1 2025. Bar lengths are scaled to Q1 2025 G&A, the largest value.
Metric Q1 2026 Q1 2025 Interpretation
R&D expense $0.435M $0.576M Lower severance and target-discovery activity reduced spending.
G&A expense $1.180M $1.480M Personnel and stock-compensation reductions drove the decline.
Operating cash use $(1.694M) $(1.798M) Cash burn improved 5.8%, but remained material relative to cash.
Basic and diluted loss per share $(0.12) $(0.21) A smaller loss and a larger weighted-average share count both affected EPS.
Q1 2026 operating expense mix
G&A — $1.180M — 73.1%
R&D — $0.435M — 26.9%
The mix shows that public-company, commercial, and administrative costs currently exceed direct R&D spending.

From Johns Hopkins technology to an integrated pharma AI platform

BullFrog’s history is best understood as a sequence of licensing, public-market financing, product expansion, and commercial validation. The company did not build a large proprietary drug portfolio first and add software later. Instead, it began with licensed analytical technology, added external biomedical datasets and drug rights, and then broadened the commercial workflow around data preparation, analysis, and decisions.

Which turning points still shape the strategy?

  1. 2017
    BullFrog AI, Inc. was founded, establishing the operating concept around machine learning for drug development.
  2. 2018
    The company obtained an exclusive worldwide license to JHU-APL technology underlying bfLEAP, creating both differentiation and continuing royalty obligations.
  3. 2020
    BullFrog AI Holdings was incorporated in Nevada and became the public-company parent structure.
  4. 2022
    New licenses expanded the analytical intellectual property and added mebendazole and Beta2-spectrin siRNA development rights.
  5. 2023
    The Nasdaq IPO supplied public capital, while the Lieber Institute relationship added rich brain-related datasets and commercialization rights.
  6. 2025
    BullFrog reported its first collaboration revenue, introduced bfPREP, and began a joint marketing collaboration with Sygnature Discovery.
  7. 2026
    bfARENAS completed the stated end-to-end workflow, the top-five pharmaceutical agreement validated enterprise demand, and a new commercial team was appointed to pursue scale.

What gives BullFrog AI a competitive advantage?

BullFrog’s claimed advantage is not simply “using AI.” Its differentiation rests on the ability to handle complex, imbalanced biomedical datasets, combine supervised and unsupervised methods, expose relationships without requiring a predefined hypothesis, and present decisions in an explainable workflow. The company also has access to licensed patents, proprietary algorithm libraries, and specialized datasets. These resources may reduce the time required to prepare data and may help pharmaceutical teams test target, biomarker, and trial-design hypotheses more systematically.

Potential moat
Integrated stack
bfPREP, bfLEAP, and bfARENAS span preparation, analysis, and decision support rather than offering one isolated model.
Commercial proof
1 named tier
A top-five pharma customer agreed to a feasibility project in March 2026, but contract economics remain undisclosed.
Scientific assets
Multiple licenses
JHU-APL, Johns Hopkins, GWU, and LIBD relationships provide technology, drug rights, or datasets.

How durable is the intellectual-property position?

The platform’s roots in JHU-APL technology are strategically useful, but the economics are not cost-free. The 2022 license carries an 8% royalty on external service net sales, 3% on internal drug projects using the technology, tiered sublicensing fees starting at 50% and declining to 25%, and minimum annual royalties of $300,000 from 2024 onward. At December 31, 2025, BullFrog had accrued the full $300,000 minimum annual royalty, which remained uninvoiced and unpaid at filing. This is a useful case-study distinction: licensed intellectual property can create barriers and credibility while also reducing future gross economics and creating fixed obligations before scale.

Specialized biomedical workflowPromising
Commercial validationEarly
Balance-sheet durabilityLimited
Revenue repeatabilityUnproven

Who competes with BullFrog AI, and where is its market position?

Competition operates on several levels. Large pharmaceutical companies can build internal data-science teams. Established contract research and informatics providers can bundle analytics with broader discovery services. Better-capitalized AI drug-discovery companies can invest more heavily in proprietary datasets, foundation models, laboratories, and internal pipelines. Academic institutions and public research programs can also produce competing methods. BullFrog’s own filing emphasizes that many rivals have substantially greater resources for R&D, clinical trials, regulatory approvals, manufacturing, and recruiting.

Where can a small specialist compete?

A specialist can win when a customer values flexibility, explainability, multimodal-data integration, and access to senior scientific attention. BullFrog does not need to outspend every AI-drug-discovery rival if it can become a trusted analytical layer inside larger partners’ programs. The June 2026 appointment of commercial executives with enterprise technology and biotechnology backgrounds shows that management views go-to-market capability as the next bottleneck. The official commercial leadership announcement frames the product set as one integrated pharmaceutical AI platform.

Competitive group Main advantage Pressure on BullFrog BullFrog response
Large pharma internal teams Data access, budgets, and direct control Can internalize projects instead of outsourcing Offer specialized methods and rapid feasibility work
AI drug-discovery platforms Capital, proprietary data, and broader pipelines Higher product velocity and stronger brand recognition Differentiate on explainability and multimodal causal analysis
CRO and informatics providers Existing customer relationships and bundled services Lower customer acquisition friction Use collaborations such as Sygnature to extend distribution
Academic and public research groups Novel science and grant-funded research Competing methods may be published or licensed Secure exclusive rights and commercialization agreements
High specialization / Early scale
BullFrog’s current position: focused biomedical analytics, limited reported revenue, and a small organization.
High specialization / Established scale
Well-funded AI-biotech platforms with proprietary pipelines and larger commercial teams.
Broad services / Early scale
Small consultancies and emerging analytics vendors competing for pilot projects.
Broad services / Established scale
Global CROs, informatics providers, and large technology-service organizations.
Positioning interpretation based on BullFrog’s one-segment disclosure, employee base, product scope, and early commercial results; it is not an official market-share estimate.

How financially strong is BullFrog AI?

BullFrog’s financial strength is best described as improved but still dependent on capital markets. At March 31, 2026, cash and cash equivalents were $5.080M, restricted cash was $0.105M, total assets were $5.539M, total liabilities were $0.652M, and stockholders’ equity was $4.887M. The company had no conventional long-term debt on the balance sheet, but it had an accumulated deficit of $24.885M and continued to consume cash in operations.

Cash and restricted cash trend
$5.436MFY2024
$2.289MFY2025
$5.185MQ1 2026
Cash declined during FY2025, then recovered in Q1 2026 primarily because of common-stock financing. Heights are scaled to the FY2024 maximum.

What did financing accomplish, and what did it cost?

During Q1 2026, BullFrog received approximately $1.9M of net proceeds from selling 2,176,604 shares under its at-the-market program at an average price of about $0.91. It also sold 4,852,318 shares under the Lincoln Park equity-line facility for gross proceeds of approximately $5.9M at an average price of about $1.21; $3.3M was collected on April 1 and therefore appeared as uncollected proceeds at quarter-end. Common shares outstanding increased from 11,418,183 at December 31, 2025 to 18,447,105 at March 31, 2026, a 61.6% increase in three months.

Financial measure FY2025 FY2024 What it shows
Revenue $0.117M $0 Commercialization began, but scale remained minimal.
Gross profit $0.022M $0 The initial collaboration produced an 18.8% gross margin.
Operating expenses $6.617M $7.236M Costs declined 8.6%, but remained far above revenue.
Net loss $(6.498M) $(6.994M) The loss narrowed 7.1% year over year.
Operating cash use $(5.522M) $(5.610M) Annual cash burn remained above $5.5M.
18.8%
FY2025 gross margin, calculated as $21,892 gross profit divided by $116,670 collaboration revenue. The percentage is informative, but the revenue base is too small to establish steady-state unit economics.

Management stated in April 2026 that financing supported runway into late 2027, while the Q1 filing said cash was expected to fund planned operations for at least one year beyond the filing date, subject to assumptions. Nasdaq confirmed that BullFrog had regained the $2.5M minimum stockholders’ equity requirement on April 21, 2026, but imposed one year of mandatory monitoring. The official Nasdaq compliance announcement explains that status.

Who owns BullFrog AI stock, and how is it governed?

BullFrog has one vote per common share and no other voting class was outstanding at the April 20, 2026 record date. Founder, Chairman, and CEO Vininder Singh remains the most influential disclosed insider. The ownership picture is complicated by rapid share issuance: the March 1 beneficial-ownership table was based on 12,664,387 common shares, while the proxy reported 18,530,865 common shares outstanding by April 20.

How much influence does the founder retain?

Holder or group Beneficial ownership Reported percentage Source period and implication
Vininder Singh 2,496,446 shares and exercisable options 19.51% March 1, 2026; meaningful founder influence over strategy and board leadership.
All officers and directors 2,679,835 20.68% March 1, 2026; incentives are materially linked to equity value.
Tivoli Trust 904,391 equivalent common shares 6.69% March 1, 2026; includes preferred conversion and warrants.
Common shares outstanding 18,530,865 100.00% April 20, 2026 record date; illustrates dilution after the ownership table date.

The 2026 proxy statement also shows four annual director nominees and three standing committees. Singh serves as both CEO and chair. The board states that combining the roles benefits daily operations and strategic perspective, while the audit committee oversees financial, regulatory, and cybersecurity risk.

Board size
4 directors
All four nominees were elected at the June 11, 2026 annual meeting.
Leadership structure
Combined
The founder holds the CEO and chair roles, increasing strategic continuity and key-person concentration.
Meeting participation
42.06%
7,794,169 shares were present or represented by proxy at the 2026 annual meeting.

A June 2026 Form 8-K disclosed that Singh’s annual base salary increased from $400,000 to $600,000 and his target annual bonus became up to 50% of base salary. For a company with $116,670 of FY2025 revenue, executive compensation, equity incentives, and measurable commercial milestones deserve close governance scrutiny.

Commercial opportunities, operating KPIs, and material risks

BullFrog’s upside is tied to converting its technical assets into repeatable enterprise demand. The March 2026 pharmaceutical agreement can become more valuable if it reaches milestones, expands to additional research programs, or produces exclusive target rights. The integrated bfPREP-bfLEAP-bfARENAS workflow may also increase the addressable scope of each customer engagement. The official bfARENAS announcement positions the product as the decision layer completing that workflow.

Which growth drivers matter most?

Paid feasibility projects
Watch signed contract count, disclosed consideration, and how quickly pilots become recognized cash revenue.
Milestone conversion
Track completion of deliverables under the top-five pharma agreement and any option exercise.
Revenue concentration
A broader customer base would reduce dependence on one or two collaborations.
Cash operating burn
Q1 2026 operating cash use was $1.694M; sustained burn determines financing needs.
Share count
Common shares rose 61.6% during Q1 2026, making per-share dilution a core KPI.
Nasdaq compliance
Monitor the $1.00 bid-price requirement and the one-year equity-rule panel monitor.

What risks could weaken the story?

Risk Financial mechanism Evidence to monitor
Commercial execution Pilots may not become recurring or material revenue. Cash receipts, backlog-like disclosures, repeat projects, and customer expansion.
Financing and dilution Operating losses require new equity, reducing existing ownership per share. ATM activity, equity-line sales, shares outstanding, and cash runway.
Licensed-IP obligations Minimum royalties and sublicense economics can pressure margins before scale. $300,000 annual JHU-APL minimum, unpaid accruals, and future royalty expense.
Scientific and clinical failure AI insights may not translate into successful targets, trials, or monetizable assets. Validated biomarkers, partner decisions, clinical milestones, and regulatory progress.
Competition and talent Better-funded rivals can outspend BullFrog and recruit scarce scientific personnel. Employee retention, commercial hires, product releases, and partner quality.
Listing compliance A delisting or reverse split could reduce liquidity and financing flexibility. Bid price through August 10, 2026, exchange notices, and board actions.
BullFrog’s central strategic tension is clear: commercial validation must arrive fast enough to reduce reliance on equity financing, while the company still invests in science, product development, and enterprise sales.

Why does BullFrog AI’s business model matter for valuation?

A conventional DCF is difficult for BullFrog because the current financial base does not yet provide a stable revenue-growth, margin, or reinvestment pattern. FY2025 revenue was $0.117M, Q1 2026 revenue was zero, and operating cash use remained substantial. A valuation model therefore depends less on extrapolating historical sales and more on explicit scenarios for contract wins, average project value, milestone conversion, platform gross margin after royalties, operating expense scale, and future share issuance.

Which variables should a researcher model?

Valuation driver Current evidence Modeling implication
Commercial contract growth One top-five pharma feasibility agreement announced in March 2026 Use milestone-based scenarios rather than smooth early growth.
Gross margin 18.8% on a very small FY2025 revenue base Separate direct project costs from license royalties and minimum fees.
Operating leverage $1.615M Q1 2026 operating expense versus no revenue Estimate the revenue level required to absorb public-company and scientific costs.
Cash runway $5.185M cash plus restricted cash at March 31, 2026 Model financing dates and costs, not only operating free cash flow.
Dilution 18.447M common shares at March 31, up from 11.418M at FY2025-end Value the enterprise and then test multiple fully diluted share counts.
Drug-asset optionality Mebendazole and siRNA programs remain early and unapproved Use probability-adjusted milestone values rather than full commercial forecasts.

What is the key takeaway from BullFrog AI analysis?

BullFrog matters as a case study in how a micro-cap life-sciences company tries to commercialize licensed AI technology across both services and therapeutic assets. The integrated product architecture, specialized biomedical focus, academic licenses, and 2026 pharmaceutical agreement provide real strategic substance. Yet the financial evidence remains early: revenue is minimal, cash burn is high relative to the balance sheet, licensing obligations are meaningful, and recent liquidity improvement came primarily from issuing shares.

Research synthesis
The strongest future signal would be repeat, cash-paying enterprise revenue that expands beyond feasibility work and begins to cover operating costs without large share issuance. The weakest signal would be continued zero-revenue quarters, rising royalty or development commitments, renewed Nasdaq pressure, or financing that expands the share count faster than commercial value. Students, analysts, and investors should monitor contract conversion, cash receipts, gross economics after licensing costs, quarterly operating burn, share dilution, and evidence that bfPREP, bfLEAP, and bfARENAS are being purchased as a coherent workflow rather than tested as isolated tools.

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