Serve Robotics Announces Third Quarter 2025 Results

• 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 30, 2025			June 30, 2025			September 30, 2024			September 30, 2025			September 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 30, 2025				June 30, 2025				September 30, 2024				September 30, 2025				September 30, 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

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Table 3

Serve Robotics Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

(in thousands)

(unaudited)

	September 30, 2025				December 31, 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, 2025				June 30, 2025				September 30, 2024				September 30, 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	)

Table 5

Serve Robotics Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows

(in thousands)

(unaudited)

	Nine Months Ended September 30,
		2025				2024
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net loss	$	(67,088	)		$	(26,071	)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
Depreciation & amortization		3,387				37
Stock-based compensation		14,919				9,930
Accretion of discount on available-for-sale securities		(548	)			-
Amortization of debt discount		-				1,678
Change in fair value of derivative liability		-				222
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of effects of business acquired:
Accounts receivable, net		(718	)			(10	)
Inventory		-				447
Prepaid expenses		(6,229	)			(2,776	)
Other receivables		(496	)			(180	)
Other current assets		(133	)			-
Accounts payable		3,479				1,556
Accrued liabilities		2,688				(111	)
Deferred revenue		(17	)			14
Operating lease liabilities, net		155				(15	)
Net cash used in operating activities		(50,601	)			(15,279	)
Cash flows from investing activities:
Purchases of property and equipment		(20,831	)			(5,395	)
Purchases of marketable securities		(125,785	)			-
Proceeds from maturity of marketable securities		32,500				-
Acquisition, net of cash acquired		(7,504	)			-
Security deposits		(119	)			-
Capitalized software		(405	)			-
Net cash used in investing activities		(122,144	)			(5,395	)
Cash flows from financing activities:
Proceeds from issuance of common stock, net of offering costs		75,847				35,849
Proceeds from issuance of common stock under the 2025 Equity Distribution Agreement, net of offering costs		78,767				-
Proceeds from issuance of prefunded warrants to purchase common stock in connection with private placement, net of issuance costs		-				17,116
Proceeds from exercise of warrants		11,381				16,325
Proceeds from convertible notes payable, net of offering costs		-				4,845
Proceeds from exercise of options		405				87
Proceeds from short-swing profit disgorgement		48				-
Repayments of note payable		-				(1,250	)
Repayments of notes payable, related party		-				(70	)
Repayment of financing lease liability		(186	)			(1,322	)
Net cash provided by financing activities		166,262				71,580
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents		56				-
Net change in cash and cash equivalents	$	(6,427	)		$	50,906
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period	$	123,266			$	7
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period	$	116,839			$	50,913

Table 6

Reconciliation of GAAP Net Losses to Adjusted EBITDA

(in thousands)

(unaudited)

	Three Months Ended									Nine Months Ended
	September 30, 2025			June 30, 2025			September 30, 2024			September 30, 2025			September 30, 2024
Net loss on GAAP basis	(33,020	)		(20,850	)		(7,996	)		(67,088	)		(26,071	)
Interest income	(1,707	)		(1,794	)		(483	)		(5,293	)		(789	)
Interest expense	-			-			34			3			1,926
Depreciation & amortization	2,095			817			9			3,387			37
Stock-based compensation	6,642			4,398			2,195			14,919			9,930
Acquisition related expenses	1,040			239			-			1,279			-
Finance lease purchase option	-			2,246			-			2,246			-
Adjusted EBITDA	(24,950	)		(14,944	)		(6,241	)		(50,547	)		(14,967	)

Table 7

Reconciliation of GAAP Measures to Non-GAAP Measures

(in thousands, except share and per share data)

(unaudited)

	Three Months Ended												Nine Months Ended
	September 30, 2025				June 30, 2025				September 30, 2024				September 30, 2025				September 30, 2024
GAAP cost of sales	$	5,066			$	3,501			$	378			$	10,476			$	1,056
Stock-based compensation		-				-				-				-				-
Non-GAAP cost of sales		5,066				3,501				378				10,476				1,056
GAAP general & administrative expense	$	13,153			$	8,078			$	1,980			$	25,981			$	4,861
Stock-based compensation		3,712				2,061				386				7,597				617
Finance lease purchase option		-				2,246				-				2,246				-
Acquisition related expenses		1,040				239				-				1,279				-
Amortization expense		913				23				-				936				-
Non-GAAP general and administrative expense		7,488				3,509				1,594				13,923				4,244
GAAP operations expense	$	2,987			$	2,124			$	917			$	6,780			$	2,330
Stock-based compensation		147				96				47				323				191
Non-GAAP operations expense		2,840				2,028				870				6,457				2,139
GAAP research and development expense	$	13,414			$	9,120			$	5,008			$	29,414			$	17,434
Stock-based compensation		2,680				2,159				1,741				6,767				9,046
Non-GAAP research and development expense		10,734				6,961				3,267				22,647				8,388
GAAP sales and marketing expense	$	883			$	463			$	384			$	1,585			$	668
Stock-based compensation		103				83				21				232				76
Amortization expense		2				-				-				2				-
Non-GAAP sales and marketing expense		778				380				363				1,351				592
GAAP operating expense	$	30,437			$	19,785			$	8,289			$	63,760			$	25,293
Stock-based compensation		6,642				4,398				2,195				14,919				9,930
Finance lease purchase option		-				2,246				-				2,246				-
Acquisition related expenses		1,040				239				-				1,279				-
Amortization expense		915				23				-				938				-
Non-GAAP operating expenses		21,840				12,879				6,094				44,378				15,363
GAAP net loss	$	(33,020	)		$	(20,850	)		$	(7,996	)		$	(67,088	)		$	(26,071	)
Stock-based compensation		6,642				4,398				2,195				14,919				9,930
Finance lease purchase option		-				2,246				-				2,246				-
Acquisition related expenses		1,040				239				-				1,279				-
Amortization expense		915				23				-				938				-
Non-GAAP net loss		(24,423	)			(13,944	)			(5,801	)			(47,706	)			(16,141	)
Weighted average common shares outstanding - basic and diluted		61,343,218				57,514,808				40,586,781				58,472,679				33,267,589
GAAP basic and diluted net loss per Common share	$	(0.54	)		$	(0.36	)		$	(0.20	)		$	(1.15	)		$	(0.78	)
Non-GAAP basic and diluted net loss per Common share	$	(0.40	)		$	(0.24	)		$	(0.14	)		$	(0.82	)		$	(0.49	)