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Fort Lauderdale, FL, Dec. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Algorhythm Holdings, Inc. (“Algorhythm” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: RIME) – an AI technology and consumer electronics holding company, announced it will pause new capital raising activities for the next six months. In light of the Company's current cash position, combined with a comprehensive assessment of the current market environment and our business operations, our management team has decided to suspend seeking out any new financing plans for the next six months. During this period, the Company will not seek new investments including transactions like an “At-the-Market” (ATM) offering or usage of the Company’s Shelf registration statement.
Additionally, the Company intends to seek the approval of its stockholders at its upcoming annual meeting of stockholders in January 2025, to implement a reverse stock split of its outstanding common stock to regain compliance with The Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) minimum bid requirement.
“With sufficient capital to execute on our business, we are excited at the outlook for 2025,” commented Gary Atkinson, CEO of Algorhythm. “SemiCab now has the sufficient working capital to take advantage of the demand from its customers as it looks to execute on its mission to utilize its AI software platform to optimize freight movement and reduce empty trucking miles.”
About Algorhythm Holdings
Algorhythm Holdings, Inc. is a holding company with two primary investments. First, the Company owns SemiCab Holdings, an emerging leader in the AI-enabled global logistics industry. Second, the Company owns The Singing Machine Company, the worldwide leader in the consumer karaoke industry.
SemiCab is a cloud-based Collaborative Transportation Platform built to achieve the scalability required to predict and optimize millions of loads and hundreds of thousands of trucks. To orchestrate collaboration across manufacturers, retailers, distributors, and their carriers, SemiCab uses real-time data from API-based load tendering and pre-built integrations with TMS and ELD partners. To build fully loaded round trips, SemiCab uses AI/ML predictions and advanced predictive optimization models. On the SemiCab platform, shippers pay less and carriers make more while not having to change a thing.
Since 2020, SemiCab has enabled major retailers, brands and transportation providers to address these common supply-chain problems globally. SemiCab's Orchestrated Collaboration™ AI model has proven to increase transportation capacity, improve asset utilization, reduce empty miles, lower logistics costs, and provide visibility into the entire transportation network. Models show the technology has the capability of saving shippers tens of billions of dollars annually through optimization. Further, SemiCab’s technology also has the potential to play a key role in the improved sustainability model globally. Based on its proven ability to improve truck utilization rates from 65% to over 90%, this results in a dramatic reduction in the carbon footprint of the industry. The optimization of existing truck utilization can add approximately 30% more trucking capacity without adding more trucks, drivers or driven miles which addresses common problems plaguing the industry like severe driver shortage and road congestion. Trucking optimization could also eliminate approximately 25% of CO2 emissions attributable to road freight.