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Agora, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Agora, Inc. (NASDAQ: API) (the 鈥淐ompany鈥�), a pioneer and leader in conversational AI and real-time engagement technology, today announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2025.

鈥淲e are proud to deliver our third consecutive quarter of GAAP profitability in Q2, with expanding margins driven by solid revenue growth and continued efficiency improvement,鈥� said Tony Zhao, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Agora, Inc. 鈥淪ince launching our Conversational AI Engine in March, we鈥檝e partnered with customers to develop voice agents for a variety of applications. We鈥檙e now seeing several of these solutions enter real-world production鈥攊ncluding in call centers and AI-powered companion toys. Building on this momentum, we will continue to integrate domain-specific expertise and enhance the performance of our solution. We are increasingly confident that our technology will help transform industries ranging from customer service and education to smart devices.鈥�

Second Quarter 2025 Highlights

• Total revenues for the quarter were $34.3 million, an increase of 0.1% from $34.2 million in the second quarter of 2024, which included revenue from certain end-of-sale products of $3.3 million.
  • Agora: $18.2 million for the quarter, an increase of 16.7% from $15.6 million in the second quarter of 2024.
  • Shengwang: RMB115.5 million ($16.1 million) for the quarter, a decrease of 12.4% from RMB131.9 million ($18.6 million) in the second quarter of 2024. Certain end-of-sale products generated revenue of nil for the quarter and RMB23.7 million ($3.3 million) in the second quarter of 2024.
• Active Customers
  • Agora: 1,880 as of June 30, 2025, an increase of 12.4% from 1,672 as of June 30, 2024.
  • Shengwang: 1,997 as of June 30, 2025, an increase of 1.4% from 1,970 as of June 30, 2024.
• Dollar-Based Net Retention Rate
  • Agora: 97% for the trailing 12-month period ended June 30, 2025.
  • Shengwang: 87% for the trailing 12-month period ended June 30, 2025.
• Net income for the quarter was $1.5 million, compared to net loss of $9.2 million in the second quarter of 2024.
• Total cash, cash equivalents, bank deposits and financial products issued by banks as of June 30, 2025 was $377.3 million.
• Net cash used in operating activities for the quarter was $0.4 million, compared to $7.6 million in the second quarter of 2024.

Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results

Revenues
Total revenues were $34.3 million in the second quarter of 2025, an increase of 0.1% from $34.2 million in the same period last year. Revenues of Agora were $18.2 million in the second quarter of 2025, an increase of 16.7% from $15.6 million in the same period last year, primarily due to our business expansion and usage growth in sectors such as live shopping. Revenues of Shengwang were RMB115.5 million ($16.1 million) in the second quarter of 2025, a decrease of 12.4% from RMB131.9 million ($18.6 million) in the same period last year, primarily due to a decrease in revenues from certain end-of-sale products, which generated revenue of nil for the quarter and RMB23.7 million ($3.3 million) in the second quarter of 2024.

Cost of Revenues
Cost of revenues was $11.4 million in the second quarter of 2025, a decrease of 12.3% from $13.0 million in the same period last year, primarily due to the end-of-sale of certain products.

Gross Profit and Gross Margin
Gross profit was $22.9 million in the second quarter of 2025, an increase of 7.7% from $21.2 million in the same period last year. Gross margin was 66.8% in the second quarter of 2025, an increase of 4.8% from 62.0% in the same period last year, mainly due to the end-of-sale of certain low-margin products.

Operating Expenses
Operating expenses were $26.5 million in the second quarter of 2025, a decrease of 18.7% from $32.6 million in the same period last year.

• Research and development expenses were $14.0 million in the second quarter of 2025, a decrease of 23.0% from $18.1 million in the same period last year, primarily due to a decrease in personnel costs as the Company optimized its global workforce, including a decrease in share-based compensation from $2.1 million in the second quarter of 2024 to $1.0 million in the second quarter of 2025.
• Sales and marketing expenses were $6.5 million in the second quarter of 2025, an increase of 4.0 % from $6.3 million in the same period last year, primarily due to an increase in promotion expenses.
• General and administrative expenses were $6.0 million in the second quarter of 2025, a decrease of 26.6% from $8.2 million in the same period last year, primarily due to a decrease in personnel costs as the Company optimized its global workforce.
  
  

Loss from Operations
Loss from operations was $3.1 million in the second quarter of 2025, compared to $11.1 million in the same period last year.

Interest Income
Interest income was $3.7 million in the second quarter of 2025, compared to $4.6 million in the same period last year, primarily due to the decrease in average interest rate.

Investment Income (Loss)
Investment income was $0.8 million in the second quarter of 2025, compared to investment loss of $2.8 million in the same period last year, primarily due to the fair value change in equity investments, as well as an increase in investment income from structured deposits.

Net Income (Loss)
Net income was $1.5 million in the second quarter of 2025, compared to net loss of $9.2 million in the same period last year.

Net Income (Loss) per American Depositary Share attributable to Ordinary Shareholders
Basic and diluted net income per American Depositary Share (鈥淎DS鈥�)¹ attributable to ordinary shareholders were $0.02 and $0.01, respectively, in the second quarter of 2025, compared to basic and diluted net loss per ADS of $0.10 in the same period last year.

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¹ One ADS represents four Class A ordinary shares.

Share Repurchase Program

During the three months ended June 30, 2025, the Company repurchased approximately 13.1 million of its Class A ordinary shares (equivalent to approximately 3.3 million ADSs) for approximately US$10.9 million under its share repurchase program, representing 5.4% of its US$200 million share repurchase program.

As of June 30, 2025, the Company had repurchased approximately 144.9 million of its Class A ordinary shares (equivalent to approximately 36.2 million ADSs) for approximately US$127.2 million under its share repurchase program, representing 63.6% of its US$200 million share repurchase program.

As of June 30, 2025, the Company had 362.9 million ordinary shares (equivalent to approximately 90.7 million ADSs) outstanding, compared to 449.8 million ordinary shares (equivalent to approximately 112.5 million ADSs) outstanding as of January 31, 2022 before the share repurchase program commenced.

The current share repurchase program will expire at the end of February 2026.

Executive Leadership Update and Change听to听Board听of听Directors

The Company today announced a change in its executive leadership. Mr. Sheng (Shawn) Zhong has tendered his voluntary resignation from his roles of the Company鈥檚 Director, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Scientist for personal reasons. Mr. Zhong will transition his operational responsibilities to Tony Zhao, founder, chairman and CEO of the Company.

Mr. Tony Wang, currently Chief Revenue Officer of the Company鈥檚 Agora division, and Mr. Jingbo Wang, currently Chief Financial Officer of the Company, have been appointed as directors of the Company, effective as of today.

Mr. Tony Wang joined the Company in April 2015 as a founding member of the Agora division. Over the years, he has held several key leadership roles, including Head of Operations and Head of Emerging Technology and Market, and was appointed Chief Revenue Officer of the Agora division in May 2022. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Wang co-founded multiple technology and digital marketing startups between 2006 and 2015. Earlier in his career, he served as a senior application developer at InfoSearch Media, a search engine marketing firm, from 2002 to 2005. Mr. Wang obtained a master鈥檚 degree in computer science from the University of Southern California in 2002, a bachelor鈥檚 degree in computer science from Purdue University in 2001.

鈥淥n behalf of the board, we sincerely thank Shawn for his dedicated service over the past seven years and for his contribution in building our technology leadership,鈥� Mr. Tony Zhao, founder, chairman and CEO of the Company, commented, 鈥淲e are pleased to welcome Tony and Jingbo to the Board. As an Agora veteran, Tony has been instrumental in shaping our go-to-market strategy and has demonstrated deep passion and conviction in real-time engagement and conversational AI technologies. Since joining the Company in January 2020, Jingbo has strengthened our financial foundation and played a key role in our business and organizational planning. Their strategic vision and operational expertise will be invaluable to the board as we continue to drive innovation and deliver long-term value for our shareholders.鈥�

Adoption of Amended and Restated Global Equity Incentive Plan

The Company today announced that it has adopted the Amended and Restated Global Equity Incentive Plan (the 鈥淎&R Global Plan鈥�), which amends the Company鈥檚 Global Equity Incentive Plan (originally effective upon the Company鈥檚 IPO) to increase the number of Class A ordinary shares available for the granting of awards to 50,000,000 Class A ordinary shares, effective as of August 18, 2025. These additional shares will be added to and made available for issuance pursuant to awards granted under the A&R Global Plan, in addition to the shares otherwise available under the Global Equity Incentive Plan in accordance with its terms.

Except as expressly set forth in the A&R Global Plan, all other terms and conditions of the plan remain in full force and effect. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this press release have the meanings given to them in the plan.

Financial Outlook

Based on currently available information, the Company expects total revenues for the third quarter of 2025 to be between $34 million and $36 million, representing year-over-year growth of 7.6% to 13.9%. This outlook reflects the Company's current and preliminary views on the market and operational conditions, which are subject to change.

Earnings Call

The Company will host a conference call to discuss the financial results at 6 p.m. Pacific Time / 9 p.m. Eastern Time on August 18, 2025. Details for the conference call are as follows:
Event title: Agora, Inc. 2Q 2025 Financial Results
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Investors who want to hear the call should log on at least 15 minutes prior to the broadcast. Participants may register for the call with the link below.

Please visit the Company鈥檚 investor relations website at on August 18, 2025 to view the earnings release and accompanying slides prior to the conference call.

Operating Metrics

The Company also uses other operating metrics included in this press release and defined below to assess the performance of its business.

Active Customers

An active customer at the end of any period is defined as an organization or individual developer from which the Company generated more than $100 of revenue during the preceding 12 months, excluding customers from Easemob. Customers are counted based on unique customer account identifiers. Generally, one software application uses the same customer account identifier throughout its life cycle while one account may be used for multiple applications.

Dollar-Based Net Retention Rate

Dollar-Based Net Retention Rate is calculated for a trailing 12-month period by first identifying all customers in the prior 12-month period, and then calculating the quotient from dividing the revenue generated from such customers in the trailing 12-month period by the revenue generated from the same group of customers in the prior 12-month period. As the vast majority of revenue generated from Agora鈥檚 customers is denominated in U.S. dollars, while the vast majority of revenue generated from Shengwang鈥檚 customers is denominated in Renminbi, Dollar-Based Net Retention Rate is calculated in U.S. dollars for Agora and in Renminbi for Shengwang, which has substantially removed the impact of foreign currency translations. Shengwang excluded the revenues from certain end-of-sale products. The Company believes Dollar-Based Net Retention Rate facilitates operating performance comparisons on a period-to-period basis.

Safe Harbor Statements

This press release contains 鈥渇orward-looking statements鈥� within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical or current fact included in this press release are forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements regarding the Company鈥檚 financial outlook, beliefs and expectations. Forward-looking statements include statements containing words such as 鈥渆xpect,鈥� 鈥渁nticipate,鈥� 鈥渂elieve,鈥� 鈥減roject,鈥� 鈥渨ill鈥� and similar expressions intended to identify forward-looking statements. Among other things, the Financial Outlook in this announcement contain forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on the Company鈥檚 current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties. The Company鈥檚 actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of these risks and uncertainties, which include, without limitation, risks related to the growth of the RTE-PaaS market; the Company鈥檚 ability to manage its growth and expand its operations; the Company鈥檚 ability to attract new developers and convert them into customers; the Company鈥檚 ability to retain existing customers and expand their usage of its platform and products; the Company鈥檚 ability to drive popularity of existing use cases and enable new use cases, including through quality enhancements and introduction of new products, features and functionalities; the Company鈥檚 fluctuating operating results; competition; the effect of broader technological and market trends on the Company鈥檚 business and prospects; general economic conditions and their impact on customer and end-user demand; and other risks and uncertainties included elsewhere in the Company鈥檚 filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (鈥淪EC鈥�), including, without limitation, the final prospectus related to the IPO filed with the SEC on June 26, 2020. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, and the Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof.

About Agora, Inc.

Agora, Inc. is the holding company of two independent businesses, Agora and Shengwang.

Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Agora is a pioneer and global leader in conversational AI and AG真人官方-Time Engagement Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), providing developers with simple, flexible, and powerful application programming interfaces, or APIs, to embed real-time conversational AI, video, voice, chat and interactive streaming into their applications.

Headquartered in Shanghai, China, Shengwang is a pioneer and leading conversational AI and AG真人官方-Time Engagement PaaS provider in the China market.

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