-- Revenue grew approximately 20x in 2025, scaling from approximately $1
million in Q1 2025 to $23.8 million in Q4 2025
-- Commercial engagements expanded across cloud infrastructure, sovereign
AI initiatives, and industrial environments
-- Strategic progress continued into Q1 2026 through strategic
partnerships, sovereign AI initiatives, and go-to-market leadership
expansion
-- AI Services platform initiative progressed toward initial release,
expected early in the second quarter
EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 2026--
Blaize Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BZAI, NASDAQ: BZAIW) ("Blaize," the "Company," "we," "us," and "our"), a leader in programmable, energy-efficient edge AI computing, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025, reflecting strong execution as AI infrastructure increasingly centers on inference-driven systems, enabled by efficiency-focused architectures designed for real-world AI deployment.
In 2025, Blaize delivered $38.6 million in revenue, up from $1.6 million in 2024, marking its first full year of commercial revenue generation. This was driven by expanding engagements with system integrators and solution providers supporting AI inference infrastructure buildout, sovereign AI initiatives, and public safety applications. Fourth-quarter performance also reflected continued sequential growth, with revenue more than doubling from the third quarter.
This execution reflects increasing demand for efficient, real-world AI deployments and positions Blaize to extend its platform into AI services and application delivery over time.
"AI infrastructure is entering its next phase as the industry moves from model training to inference at global scale," said Dinakar Munagala, co-founder and CEO of Blaize. "As this evolution continues, customers are increasingly focused on cost per inference, power efficiency, and revenue per rack. Blaize is enabling this through a programmable, hybrid AI platform designed for efficient inference across edge and data center environments. Our focus is execution, expanding commercial engagements and converting pipeline into revenue. We are also progressing toward the initial release of the Blaize AI Services platform in the second quarter, extending our strategy toward monetizable, API-based AI capabilities."
"We delivered strong revenue growth in 2025 and exceeded the upper end of our full-year guidance, reflecting continued execution across our commercial engagements," said Harminder Sehmi, Chief Financial Officer of Blaize. "We remain focused on disciplined execution as we scale the business, with continued emphasis on efficiency and expanding recurring revenue opportunities over time."
Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Financial Highlights
-- Fourth quarter and full year revenue exceeded the upper end of the
Company's guidance
-- Fourth quarter net loss of $3.2 million an improvement over $26.3
million net loss from prior quarter
-- Adjusted EBITDA loss of $11.1 million was flat from prior quarter
-- Research & Development spend and Sales, General & Administrative costs
were flat sequentially
2025 Business Highlights
Blaize's 2025 growth was driven by increased commercial traction across its core AI infrastructure markets.
-- Revenue Contribution: Converted AI infrastructure opportunities into
revenue growth throughout 2025.
-- Ecosystem Development: Established partnerships with cloud providers,
data center operators, and infrastructure partners, enabling AI
infrastructure buildout and revenue generating deployments.
-- Global Footprint: Increased presence across Asia-Pacific, South Asia,
the Middle East, North America, and Europe, strengthening pipeline across
infrastructure and application-level opportunities.
Business Developments Since Year-End
Since the end of 2025, Blaize has continued to expand its commercial activity and ecosystem partnerships across key markets:
-- Nokia Strategic Collaboration: Following its January 2026 strategic
announcement with Nokia, Blaize is advancing the joint AI inference
platform development, expanding regional engagements, and preparing for
market showcase at GITEX Asia, with active solution work across Southeast
Asia and Australia in safety, retail, and infrastructure use cases.
-- India Cloud AI Innovation Hub: Through its MoU with the Government of
Telangana, Blaize plans to establish the AI innovation hub and R&D center,
supporting applied AI pilots and implementations initiatives across
mining safety, smart cities, and agriculture, with real-time monitoring
of operations.
-- Industrial AI Validation in Korea: Building on its partnership with
GSIL, Blaize is co-developing Physical AI solutions for industrial safety,
enabling real-time risk detection and predictive safety capabilities,
starting with pilots in Korea's manufacturing environments and expanding
globally.
-- Commercial Leadership Expansion: Blaize appointed former Cisco leader
Stephen Patak as Chief Revenue Officer to scale AI deployments across
public and private sector markets.
These developments reflect continued execution of Blaize's strategy to expand AI infrastructure activity, strengthen ecosystem partnerships, and position the platform for long-term AI services monetization.
Company Outlook and Execution Readiness
Blaize expects continued growth as global investment in AI infrastructure expands, with increasing focus on inference economics and AI services monetization.
Blaize is also seeing an expanding range of AI use cases across its target markets, with increasing traction in public safety, retail analytics, smart infrastructure, and aerial robotics. Recent activities include AI data center buildout, drone detection and airspace awareness, and smart community applications such as patient safety and remote monitoring, with enterprise engagements underway.
These trends position Blaize across both infrastructure and application-level AI services, spanning a broad and expanding set of inference-driven workloads.
The Company's execution priorities for 2026 include:
-- Launching the AI Services platform in the second quarter to enable
API-based AI capabilities and recurring revenue models.
-- Expanding AI services and application delivery to support
production-oriented, revenue generating deployments.
-- Converting pipeline and partner-driven engagements into revenue across
infrastructure and application use cases.
Financial Outlook for Fiscal Year 2026
The following forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, and actual results may differ materially, as described below in "Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements."
-- Full year revenue - $130 million -- Adjusted EBITDA loss - $45.0 million to $50.0 million -- Stock-based compensation - approximately $34.4 million -- Weighted average shares outstanding - approximately 150 million shares
Earnings Conference Call
Dinakar Munagala, co-founder and CEO of Blaize, and Harminder Sehmi, CFO of Blaize, will host a conference call at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time today, March 24, 2026, to discuss the company's financial results and outlook. A live webcast will be accessible on Blaize's investor relations website at ir.blaize.com, and an archived conference call webcast will be available on Blaize's investor relations website for one year following the live call.
About Blaize
Blaize delivers a programmable AI platform, purpose-built for inference in real world environments. Its Hybrid AI architecture enables Practical AI and Physical AI workloads to run efficiently at the edge while integrating seamlessly with cloud and GPU based infrastructure. Blaize solutions support computer vision, multimodal AI, and sensor driven applications across smart cities, industrial automation, telecommunications, retail, logistics, and defense. Blaize is headquartered in El Dorado Hills, California, with a global presence across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. To learn more, visit www.blaize.com or follow us on LinkedIn @blaizeinc.
Non-GAAP Measures
In addition to financial measures presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. ("GAAP"), we report certain key financial measures that are not required by, or presented in accordance with, GAAP. Non-GAAP financial information is presented for supplemental informational purposes only, should not be considered in isolation of, or as a substitute for or superior to, financial information presented in accordance with GAAP, and may be different from similarly-titled non-GAAP measures used by other companies. Accordingly, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on this information. We believe that along with our GAAP financial information, our non-GAAP financial information when taken collectively and evaluated appropriately, is helpful to investors in assessing our operating performance.
In conjunction with net loss calculated in accordance with GAAP, we also use EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA, as defined below, to evaluate our ongoing operations and for internal planning and forecasting purposes.
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA
EBITDA is defined as "Earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation, and amortization". Adjusted EBITDA is defined as EBITDA further adjusted for non-cash items such as stock-based compensation, changes in fair value, and operational income and expenses that are not expected to be ongoing, as discussed below in the footnote to "other adjustments".
In reliance on the exception provided by Item 10(e)(1)(i)$(B)$ of Regulation S-K, we have not reconciled the forward-looking Adjusted EBITDA (Non-GAAP) for the full fiscal year 2026 included above because we are unable to quantify certain amounts that would be required to be included in net income (loss), the most directly comparable GAAP measure, without unreasonable efforts due to the high variability and difficulty in predicting, with reasonable certainty, certain items excluded from Adjusted EBITDA. Consequently, we believe such reconciliation would imply a degree of precision that would be misleading to investors. Preparation of such reconciliations would require a forward-looking balance sheet, statement of income and statement of cash flow, prepared in accordance with GAAP, and such forward-looking financial statements are unavailable to Blaize without unreasonable effort. For the same reasons, Blaize is unable to address the probable significance of the unavailable information. We expect the variability of these excluded items may have an unpredictable, and potentially significant, impact on our future GAAP financial results.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), including statements regarding our 2026 financial outlook; stock-based compensation; weighted average shares outstanding; release of the AI Services platform; India Cloud AI Innovation Hub; co-development of Physical AI solutions; the engagements with Nokia and GSIL, or the ultimate value of those contracts; regional growth, the expectations for AI infrastructure ecosystem development and AI services deployment, projected margin improvement, the industry in which Blaize operates, market opportunities, and product offerings. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by the following words: "may," "will," "could," "would," "should," "expect," "intend," "plan," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate, " "predict," "project," "potential," "continue," "ongoing," "target," "seek" or the negative or plural of these words, or other similar expressions that are predictions or indicate future events or prospects, although not all forward-looking statements contain these words. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual future events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this document, including but not limited to: (i) changes in domestic and foreign business, market, financial, political and legal conditions; (ii) the ability to maintain compliance with stock exchange listing standards; (iii) failure to realize the benefits of the business combination of Blaize and BurTech Acquisition Corp., which may be affected by, among other things, competition, the ability of the combined company to grow and manage growth profitably, maintain relationships with customers and suppliers and retain its management and key employees; (iv) the ability of the Company to successfully market its products and services; (v) the ability of the Company to successfully deploy its technologies across customer settings; (vi) changes in applicable law or regulations; (vii) the outcome of any legal proceedings that have been or may be instituted against Blaize; (viii) the effects of competition on Blaize's future business; (ix) the ability of the combined company to issue equity or equity-linked securities or obtain debt financing; and (x) those factors discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 24, 2026, and other documents filed by Blaize from time to time with the SEC. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and Blaize assumes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law, including the securities laws of the United States and the rules and regulations of the SEC. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Blaize does not give any assurance that it will achieve its expectations.
The financial projections in this release are forward-looking statements that are based on assumptions that are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond Blaize's control. While such projections are necessarily speculative, Blaize believes that the preparation of prospective financial information involves increasingly higher levels of uncertainty the further out the projection extends from the date of preparation. The assumptions and estimates underlying the projected results are inherently uncertain and are subject to a wide variety of significant business, economic and competitive risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the projections. The inclusion of financial information or projections in this press release should not be regarded as an indication that Blaize, or its representatives and advisors, considered or consider the information or projections to be a reliable prediction of future events. The independent registered public accounting firm of Blaize has not audited, reviewed, compiled or performed any procedures with respect to the projections for the purpose of their inclusion in this press release and, accordingly, has not expressed an opinion or provided any other form of assurance with respect thereto for the purpose of this press release.
BLAIZE HOLDINGS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(Amounts in thousands, except shares and per share amounts)
As of
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December 31, 2025 December 31, 2024
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Assets
Current assets:
Cash and cash
equivalents $ 45,781 $ 50,237
Accounts receivable, net
of allowance for credit
losses of $523 and $420,
respectively 33,363 --
Accounts receivable -
related party, net of
allowance of $34 and
$--, respectively 3,330 --
Inventories, net 10,130 8,561
Prepaid expenses and
other current assets 4,003 12,621
Prepaid expenses and
other current assets -
related parties -- 250
-------------- --------------
Total current assets 96,607 71,669
Property and equipment,
net 1,226 2,081
Deferred income tax
assets 2,123 2,157
Operating lease
right-of-use assets 1,516 1,773
Other assets 739 815
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Total assets $ 102,211 $ 78,495
Liabilities and stockholders'
equity (deficit)
Current liabilities
Accounts payable $ 8,339 $ 7,904
Accounts payable -
related party 180 --
Accrued trade payables 22,838 --
Accrued expenses and
other current
liabilities 6,700 14,300
Accrued expenses -
related party 331 --
Operating lease
liabilities - current 644 578
Working capital loan -
related party 1,500 --
Advances from related
party 2,857 --
Legacy Blaize
convertible notes and
warrants -- 163,340
-------------- --------------
Total current liabilities 43,389 186,122
Operating lease
liabilities 804 1,166
Other earnout shares 6,745 --
Other earnout shares -
related party 2,184 --
Polar warrants 8,813 --
Other liabilities 1,276 1,670
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Total liabilities 63,211 188,958
Commitments and
contingencies
Stockholders' equity
(deficit):
Common stock - $0.0001
par value; 600,000,000
and 136,562,809 shares
authorized as of
December 31, 2025 and
2024, respectively, and
122,043,966 and
48,376,052 shares
issued and outstanding
as of December 31, 2025
and 2024, respectively 12 5
Additional paid-in
capital 675,143 318,783
Accumulated deficit (636,155) (429,251)
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Total stockholders' equity
(deficit) 39,000 (110,463)
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Total liabilities and
stockholders' equity
(deficit) $ 102,211 $ 78,495
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BLAIZE HOLDINGS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Amounts in thousands, except shares and per share amounts)
For the Three Months Ended For the Year Ended
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December 31, September 30, December 31, December 31, December 31,
2025 2025 2024 2025 2024
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Revenue
Products:
Hardware
revenue $ 23,762 $ 10,528 $ 1 $ 35,354 $ 29
Software
revenue -- -- -- 300 --
Hardware
revenue -
related party 13 1,124 -- 2,499 --
Software
revenue -
related party 1 215 -- 479 --
Services:
Strategic
consulting
services
revenue -
related party -- -- -- -- 1,525
----------- ----------- ---------- ----------- ----------
Total revenue 23,776 11,867 1 38,632 1,554
Cost of revenue 21,216 10,091 (460) 32,438 579
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Gross profit 2,560 1,776 461 6,194 975
Operating expenses
Research and
development 10,116 9,676 9,329 42,523 25,094
Selling,
general and
administrative 13,294 14,321 7,690 53,501 22,228
Selling,
general and
administrative
- related
party 318 -- 185 773 185
Depreciation 184 364 198 1,195 886
Transaction
costs -- -- 54 12,043 217
----------- ----------- ---------- ----------- ----------
Total operating
expenses 23,912 24,361 17,456 110,035 48,610
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Loss from operations (21,352) (22,585) (16,995) (103,841) (47,635)
Other expense, net
Change in fair
value of
Legacy Blaize
convertible
notes and
warrants -- -- 8,943 (226,048) (15,723)
Change in fair
value of Polar
warrants 4,125 -- 4,125 --
Change in fair
value of other
earnout
shares 11,650 (3,798) -- 117,113 --
Change in fair
value of
unissued
shares of
common stock 6 56 -- (238) --
Change in fair
value of
committed
equity
facility, net 1,273 (63) -- 1,210 --
Other, net 997 153 60 992 1,211
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Total other
expense, net 18,051 (3,652) 9,003 (102,846) (14,512)
----------- ----------- ---------- ----------- ----------
Loss before income
taxes (3,301) (26,237) (7,992) (206,687) (62,147)
Provision for
(benefit from)
income taxes (5) 21 (1,300) 217 (952)
----------- ----------- ---------- ----------- ----------
Net loss $ (3,296) $ (26,258) $ (6,692) $ (206,904) $ (61,195)
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Net loss per share -
basic and diluted $ (0.03) $ (0.25) $ (0.38) $ (1.98) $ (3.50)
=========== =========== ========== =========== ==========
Weighted average
shares outstanding -
basic and diluted 116,573,701 103,585,681 17,476,105 104,275,265 17,476,105
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BLAIZE HOLDINGS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Amounts in thousands)
For the Three Months
Ended For the Year Ended
-------------------- -----------------------
December December December December
31, 2025 31, 2024 31, 2025 31, 2024
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Cash flows
from
operating
activities:
Net loss $ (3,296) $ (6,692) $(206,904) $(61,195)
Adjustments
to reconcile
net loss to
net cash used
in operating
activities:
Depreciation 184 198 1,195 886
Noncash lease
expense 1,038 204 688 649
Debt financing
charge on
Legacy Blaize
convertible
notes -- -- -- 464
Stock-based
compensation 9,454 2,805 37,546 3,847
Non-cash
financing
expense
related to
issuance of
common stock 2,148 -- 2,767 --
Non-cash
financing
expense
related to
issuance of
warrants 1,073 -- 1,073 --
Allowance for
credit
losses -- (150) 557 420
Deferred
income taxes (162) (1,088) (368) (1,124)
Change in fair
value of
Legacy Blaize
convertible
notes and
warrants -- (8,943) 226,048 15,723
Change in fair
value of
Polar
warrants (4,125) -- (4,125) --
Change in fair
value of
other earnout
shares (11,650) -- (117,113) --
Change in fair
value of
unissued
shares of
common stock 294 -- 238 --
Change in fair
value of
committed
equity
facility,
net (1,273) -- (1,210) --
Other 514 -- -- --
Changes in
operating
assets and
liabilities:
Accounts
receivable,
net (23,702) 1,879 (33,865) (464)
Accounts
receivable,
net - related
party 33 -- (3,330) 467
Inventories,
net (1,348) (155) (1,569) (2,039)
Prepaid
expenses and
other current
assets (9,863) (15,238) 10,116 (21,615)
Prepaid
expenses and
other current
assets -
related
party 250 -- 250 --
Accounts
payable and
accrued
expenses 1,528 7,052 (8,007) 10,663
Accounts
payable and
accrued
expenses -
related
party 511 -- 511 --
Accrued trade
payables 22,838 -- 22,838 --
Operating
lease
liabilities (1,040) (218) (727) (616)
Other current
liabilities 133 2,602 (360) 402
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Net cash used
in operating
activities (16,461) (17,744) (73,751) (53,532)
Cash flows
from
investing
activities:
Purchases of
property and
equipment (81) 263 (788) (902)
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Net cash used
in investing
activities (81) 263 (788) (902)
Cash flows
from
financing
activities:
Merger and
PIPE
financing,
net of
transaction
costs -- -- 15,873 --
Funds held in
escrow -- -- 503 --
Proceeds from
the sale of
common stock
to Polar, net
of offering
expenses 27,902 -- 27,902 --
Payment of
deferred
offering
costs (3,326) (689) (7,658) (4,357)
Repayment of
advances from
related
party -- -- (114) --
Proceeds from
issuance of
common stock,
net of
financing
charge on the
committed
equity
facility 13,425 -- 33,250 --
Repayment of
short-term
demand notes -- -- -- (4,750)
Proceeds from
exercise of
stock
options 327 18 345 98
Proceeds from
Legacy Blaize
convertible
notes -- -- -- 110,718
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