| During the year, the company established an equity-settled share option scheme to incentivise key employees. Under the plan, 1,438,622 options with an exercise price of £0.000008 were granted over 4 years, 63,796 options with an exercise price of £0.29614 were granted over 4 years, and 86,165 options with an exercise price of £0.82008 were granted over 4 years. The fair value of 1,346,952 of the options have been valued at £0.29614. The fair value of the remaining options of 241,631 have been valued at £0.82008.
The value of the options that vested in the year was £157,951 (2024: £nil) and this was charged to the profit and loss. 759,587 options were exercised, 96,120 were forfeited and no shares had expired during the year. The total accelerated expense for exercised share options was £251,216 (2024: £nil) and this was charged to the profit and loss. The total carrying amount is £409,167 (2024: £nil) recognised as a capital contribution in Other reserves.
The total number of shares options outstanding at the year end is 732,876 (2024: nil).
Upon exercise, the shares will be granted to employees in the parent company, Avian Labs Inc, based in the United States of America. |