SMITH MICRO SOFTWARE INC

2023 ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K

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SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

In this document, the terms “Smith Micro,” “Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Smith Micro Software, Inc. and, where appropriate, its subsidiaries.

This Annual Report on Form 10-K (this “Report”) contains forward-looking statements regarding Smith Micro which include, but are not limited to, statements concerning customer concentration, projected revenues, market acceptance of products, the success and timing of new product introductions, the competitive factors affecting our business, our ability to raise additional capital, gross profit and income, our expenses, the protection of our intellectual property, and our ability to remain a going concern. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations, estimates and projections about our industry, management's beliefs, and certain assumptions made by us. Words such as “anticipates,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “predicts,” “potential,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” “should,” “may,” “will,” and variations of these words or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements also include the assumptions underlying or relating to any of the foregoing statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, our actual results or performance could differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements as a result of various factors. Such factors include, but are not limited to, the following:

•our customer concentration, given that the majority of our sales currently depend on a few large client relationships;

•our ability to establish and maintain strategic relationships with our customers and mobile device manufacturers, their ability to attract customers, and their willingness to promote our products;

•our ability and/or customers’ ability to distribute our mobile software applications to their end users through third party mobile software application stores, which we do not control;

•our dependency upon effective operation with operating systems, devices, networks and standards that we do not control and on our continued relationships with mobile operating system providers, device manufacturers and mobile software application stores on commercially reasonable terms or at all;

•our ability to hire and retain key personnel;

•the possibility of security and privacy breaches in our systems and in the third-party software and/or systems that we use, damaging client relations and inhibiting our ability to grow;

•interruptions or delays in the services we provide from our data center hosting facilities that could harm our business;

•the existence of undetected software defects in our products and our failure to resolve detected defects in a timely manner;

•our ability to remain a going concern;

•our ability to raise additional capital and the risk of such capital not being available to us at commercially reasonable terms or at all;

•our ability to be profitable;

•changes in our operating income due to shifts in our sales mix and variability in our operating expenses;

•our current client concentration within the vertical wireless carrier market, and the potential impact to our business resulting from changes within this vertical market, or failure to penetrate new markets;

•rapid technological evolution and resulting changes in demand for our products from our key customers and their end users;

•intense competition in our industry and the core vertical markets in which we operate, and our ability to successfully compete;

•the risks inherent with international operations;

•the impact of evolving information security and data privacy laws on our business and industry;

•the impact of governmental regulations on our business and industry;

•our ability to protect our intellectual property and our ability to operate our business without infringing on the rights of others;

•the risk of being delisted from Nasdaq if we fail to meet any of its applicable listing requirements;

•our ability to assimilate acquisitions without diverting management attention and impacting current operations;

•failure to realize the expected benefits of prior acquisitions;

•the availability of third-party intellectual property and licenses needed for our operations on commercially reasonable terms, or at all;

•the difficulty of predicting our quarterly revenues and operating results and the chance of such revenues and results falling below analyst or investor expectations, which could cause the price of our common stock to fall; and

•those additional factors which are listed under Item 1A of Part I of this Report under the caption “RISK FACTORS.”

The forward-looking statements contained in this Report are made on the basis of the views and assumptions of management regarding future events and business performance as of the date this Report is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). In addition, we operate in a highly competitive and rapidly changing environment; therefore, new risk factors can arise, and it is not possible for management to predict all such risk factors, nor to assess the impact of all such risk factors on our business or the extent to which any individual risk factor, or combination of risk factors, may cause results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement. We do not undertake any obligation to update these statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date this Report is filed.