-- Delivery Volume growth of 66% quarter over quarter, a 300% increase from
third quarter 2024
-- Entered new multi-year strategic partnership with DoorDash to roll out
deliveries across the U.S.
-- Launched Chicago market, strengthening national presence; serving
over 3,600 restaurants and a population of 3 million across the U.S.
-- Third quarter revenue of $687 thousand, a 209% increase compared to third
quarter 2024
-- Ended the quarter with a strong liquidity position of $210 million and
subsequently raised $100 million in a registered direct share offering
-- 10x revenue growth in 2026 based on preliminary projections
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Serve Robotics Inc. (the "Company" or "Serve") (Nasdaq: SERV), a leading autonomous sidewalk delivery company, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2025.
"In Q3, our team once again delivered on our promises. Significantly, we're on track to achieve our goal of deploying 2,000 robots before the end of the year," said Dr. Ali Kashani, Serve's co-founder and CEO. "We are now a national leader in sidewalk robotics, advancing towards a 10x increase in revenue next year. This positions Serve to establish the foundation for a future with a million robots deployed globally."
"The relentless execution of our scale plan continues to drive consistent revenue growth," said Brian Read, CFO of Serve. "We will continue to invest in key capabilities that strengthen our industry-leading autonomy and robotics platform, including integration of our recent Phantom Auto and Vayu acquisitions, to expand our increasingly diverse revenue stack."
Business Highlights
-- Continued Fleet Growth: Crossed the threshold of 1,000 robots deployed.
Daily supply hours increased by over 713% compared to third quarter 2024.
-- Continued Volume Growth: During third quarter 2025, delivery volume
increased 66% sequentially from second quarter 2025.
-- Expanded Reach: Significantly increased geographical coverage with the
launch of the Chicago market. Coupled with recent expansion in Dallas,
Miami, and Los Angeles, we now operate in areas encompassing over 3
million people and over 1 million households.
-- Partnership Expansion: Launched new multi-year strategic partnership with
DoorDash, expected to expand the potential volume of delivery orders
available to Serve. Expanded existing partnerships with brands including
Shake Shack and Little Caesars, and added new partners, including Jersey
Mike's Subs. Now delivering for over 3,600 restaurants across the U.S.
-- Strategic acquisitions: Deepened competitive moat by acquiring Vayu, a
pioneer in AI foundation model-based autonomy, as well as ultra-low
latency teleoperation technology provider Phantom Auto. Investments
expected to reduce data infrastructure costs and improve operational
metrics over time.
Financial Highlights
-- Revenue: Revenue of $687 thousand was in line with previous guidance.
Fleet revenues increased 31% on a sequential basis to $433 thousand,
including a 120% increase in branding revenues.
-- Balance Sheet: Maintained a strong liquidity position of $210 million as
of September 30, 2025. In October 2025, the Company completed an equity
offering generating gross proceeds of $100 million.
-- Outstanding Shares: Approximately 67.8 million shares of common stock
outstanding as of September 30, 2025.
Outlook
-- Guidance for FY2025: We anticipate generating over $2.5 million in
revenue in 2025.
-- Guidance for FY 2026: While full year guidance is expected to be provided
in early 2026, current indications suggest we will deliver roughly 10x
revenue growth in 2026.
-- Fleet Scale: We expect to deploy our 2,000th robot ahead of schedule in
mid-December 2025.
Quarterly Conference Call
Company management will host a conference call and webcast today at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET to discuss the financial results and provide a corporate update. A live webcast and replay can be accessed from the investor relations page of Serve's website at investors.serverobotics.com.
Individuals interested in listening to the conference call may do so by dialing 1-800-715-9871 and referencing conference ID 1738329.
Serve develops advanced, AI-powered, low-emissions sidewalk delivery robots that endeavor to make delivery sustainable and economical. Spun off from Uber in 2021 as an independent company, Serve has completed well over 100,000 deliveries for enterprise partners such as Uber Eats and 7-Eleven. Serve has scalable multi-year contracts, including a signed agreement to deploy up to 2,000 delivery robots on the Uber Eats platform across multiple U.S. markets, and an agreement to deliver on the DoorDash platform.
For further information about Serve (Nasdaq: SERV), please visit www.serverobotics.com or follow us on social media via X (Twitter), Instagram, or LinkedIn @serverobotics.
Supplemental Financial Information
The key metrics and financial tables outlined below are metrics that provide management with additional understanding of the drivers of business performance and the Company's ability to deliver stockholder return. Investors should not place undue reliance on these metrics as indicators of future or expected results. The Company's presentation of these metrics may differ from similarly titled metrics presented by other companies and therefore comparability may be limited.
Table 1
Key Metrics
(unaudited)
Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
------------------------------- ----------------------
September June 30, September September September
30, 2025 2025 30, 2024 30, 2025 30, 2024
--------- --------- --------- --------- -----------
Daily
Active
Robots
(1) 312 160 59 182 49
Daily
Supply
Hours
(2) 3,781 1,723 465 2,062 384
(1) Daily Active Robots: The Company defines daily active
robots as the average number of robots performing
daily deliveries during the period.
(2) Daily Supply Hours: The Company defines daily supply
hours as the average number of hours the Company's
robots are ready to accept offers and perform daily
deliveries during the period.
Table 2
Disaggregation of Revenue
(in thousands)
(unaudited)
Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
September June 30, September September 30, September 30,
30, 2025 2025 30, 2024 2025 2024
------------ ------------ ------------ -------------- ----------------
Software
services $ 254 $ 312 $ 39 $ 795 $ 1,186
Fleet
services 433 330 183 974 451
----------- ----------- ----------- ------------- -------------
$ 687 $ 642 $ 222 $ 1,769 $ 1,637
=========== =========== =========== ============= =============
Forward Looking Statements
This Serve Robotics Inc. press release contains "forward-looking statements," within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the context of the statement and generally arise when we or our management are discussing our beliefs, estimates or expectations. Such statements generally include the words "believes," "plans," "intends," "targets," "may," "could," "should," "will," "expects," "estimates," "suggests," "anticipates," "outlook," "continues, " "guidance," "projects," or similar expressions. These statements are not historical facts or guarantees of future performance, but represent management's belief at the time the statements were made regarding future events which are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside of our control. Actual results and outcomes may differ materially from what is expressed or forecast in such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding the Company's future revenue generation, timing of the Company's robot deployment, the Company's ability to expand to additional markets, capabilities of the Company's robots, the Company's operational efficiency, and the Company's timing and ability to scale to commercial production.
The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are also subject to other risks and uncertainties, including those more fully described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including in the sections entitled "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, and in the Company's subsequent SEC filings. The Company can give no assurance that the plans, intentions, expectations or strategies as reflected in or suggested by those forward-looking statements will be attained or achieved. The forward-looking statements in this presentation are based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof, and the Company disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, except as required by law. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company's views as of any date subsequent to the date of this presentation.
Non-GAAP Measures of Financial Performance
To supplement the Company's financial statements, which are presented on the basis of U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"), the following non-GAAP measures of financial performance are included in this release: non-GAAP general and administrative expense, non-GAAP research and development expense, non-GAAP operations expense, non-GAAP sales and marketing expense, non-GAAP operating expense, adjusted EBITDA, non-GAAP net loss and non-GAAP basic and diluted net loss per Common share.
The Company believes that providing this non-GAAP information in addition to the GAAP financial information allows investors to view the financial results in the way the Company views its operating results. The Company also believes that providing this information allows investors to not only better understand the Company's financial performance but also better evaluate the information used by management to evaluate and measure such performance.
As such, the Company believes that disclosing non-GAAP financial measures to the readers of its financial statements provides the reader with useful supplemental information that allows for greater transparency in the review of the company's financial and operational performance. The Company defines its non-GAAP measures by excluding stock-based compensation, amortization, transaction costs and finance lease purchase option.
Reconciliations of GAAP to these adjusted non-GAAP financial measures are included in the tables presented. When analyzing the Company's operating results, investors should not consider non-GAAP measures as substitutes for the comparable financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.
To the extent that the Company presents any forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures, the Company does not present a quantitative reconciliation of such measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure (or otherwise present such forward-looking GAAP measures) because it is impractical to do so.
Contacts
Media
Aduke Thelwell, VP of Communications
aduke.thelwell@serverobotics.com
Investor Relations
Sheldon Hanai, Head of Investor Relations
investor.relations@serverobotics.com
Table 3
Serve Robotics Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in thousands)
(unaudited)
September 30, December 31,
2025 2024
------------------ --------------------
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents $ 116,839 $ 123,266
Short-term marketable
securities 93,608 -
Accounts receivable, net 805 87
Inventory - 310
Prepaid expenses 7,626 1,397
Other receivables 688 192
Other current assets 133 -
---------------- ----------------
Total current assets 219,699 125,252
Property and equipment, net 30,057 11,963
Intangible assets, net 36,310 -
Goodwill 8,810 -
Operating lease right-of-use
assets 4,021 1,808
Other non-current assets 612 578
---------------- ----------------
Total assets $ 299,509 $ 139,601
================ ================
LIABILITIES AND
STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
(DEFICIT)
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable $ 7,748 $ 4,902
Accrued liabilities 3,343 655
Deferred revenue 3 20
Operating lease
liabilities, current 1,669 666
Financing lease
liabilities, current - 564
---------------- ----------------
Total current
liabilities 12,763 6,807
Operating lease liabilities,
non-current 2,478 1,113
---------------- ----------------
Total liabilities 15,241 7,920
Stockholders' equity:
Ordinary and preferred
shares 7 5
Additional paid-in
capital 458,808 239,201
Accumulated other
comprehensive income
(loss) 65 -
Accumulated deficit (174,612) (107,525)
---------------- ----------------
Total stockholders'
equity 284,268 131,681
---------------- ----------------
Total liabilities and
stockholders' equity $ 299,509 $ 139,601
================ ================
Table 4
Serve Robotics Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations
(in thousands, except share and per share data)
(unaudited)
Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
--------------------------------------
September 30, September 30, September 30,
2025 June 30, 2025 2024 2025 September 30, 2024
----------------- ----------------- ---------------- ----------------- -------------------
Revenues $ 687 $ 642 $ 222 $ 1,769 $ 1,637
Cost of revenues 5,066 3,501 378 10,476 1,056
--------------- --------------- -------------- --------------- ---------------
Gross profit
(loss) (4,379) (2,859) (156) (8,707) 581
Operating
expenses:
General and
administrative 13,153 8,078 1,980 25,981 4,861
Operations 2,987 2,124 917 6,780 2,330
Research and
development 13,414 9,120 5,008 29,414 17,434
Sales and
marketing 883 463 384 1,585 668
--------------- --------------- -------------- --------------- ---------------
Total
operating
expenses 30,437 19,785 8,289 63,760 25,293
Loss from
operations (34,816) (22,644) (8,445) (72,467) (24,712)
Other income
(expense):
Interest income 1,707 1,794 483 5,293 789
Interest
expense - - (34) (3) (1,926)
Realized gain
on foreign
currency
translation 4 - - 4 -
Realized gain
on
investments 85 - - 85 -
Change in fair
value of
derivative
liability - - - - (222)
--------------- --------------- -------------- --------------- ---------------
Total other
income
(expense) 1,796 1,794 449 5,379 (1,359)
Provision for
income taxes - - - - -
--------------- --------------- -------------- --------------- ---------------
Net loss (33,020) (20,850) (7,996) (67,088) (26,071)
--------------- --------------- -------------- --------------- ---------------
Other
comprehensive
loss:
Unrealized loss
on foreign
currency
translation (343) 343 - - 343
Unrealized gain
on
investments 110 (45) - 65 (45)
--------------- --------------- -------------- --------------- ---------------
Comprehensive loss $ (33,253) $ (20,552) $ (7,996) $ (67,023) $ (25,773)
--------------- --------------- -------------- --------------- ---------------
Weighted average
common shares
outstanding -
basic and
diluted 61,343,218 57,514,808 40,586,781 58,472,679 33,267,589
--------------- --------------- -------------- --------------- ---------------
Net loss per
common share -
basic and
diluted $ (0.54) $ (0.36) $ (0.20) $ (1.15) $ (0.78)
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