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FTC Solar, Inc.

For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Mar 31, 2025.

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FY2024 · Filed Mar 31, 2025

FTCI$1.55-2.5%Stored close · as of Nov 10, 2026

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Item 1. Business

Development of the business

FTC Solar, Inc. (the “Company”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) was founded in 2017 and is incorporated in the state of Delaware. In April 2021, we completed an initial public offering ("IPO"), and our common stock currently trades on the Nasdaq Capital Market ("Nasdaq") under the symbol “FTCI”.

We are a global provider of solar tracker systems, supported by proprietary software and value-added engineering services. Solar tracker systems move solar panels throughout the day to maintain an optimal orientation relative to the sun, thereby increasing the amount of solar energy produced at a solar installation. Our original two modules-in-portrait ("2P") solar tracker system is marketed under the Voyager brand name (“Voyager”) and our one module-in-portrait ("1P") solar tracker system is marketed under the Pioneer brand name ("Pioneer"). We also have a mounting solution to support the installation and use of U.S.-manufactured thin-film modules. Our primary software offerings include SUNPATH which helps customers optimize solar tracking for increased energy production and our SUNOPS real-time operations management platform. In addition, we have a team of renewable energy professionals available to assist our U.S. and worldwide clients in site layout, structural design, pile testing and other needs across the solar project development and construction cycle. Our products and services provide tracker solutions for large utility-scale solar and distributed generation projects around the world. Our customers are primarily engineering, procurement and construction companies ("EPCs") and we also contract with developers and owners. The Company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has international subsidiaries in Australia, China, India, South Africa and Spain.

During 2024, we added to our executive leadership team. In August 2024, Yann Brandt joined the Company as President and Chief Executive Officer, and he is a member of our Board of Directors. Further, Cathy Behnen was appointed as our Chief Financial Officer in February 2024; we hired Alberto Echeverria, a former CEO and Executive Member of the Board of STI Norland, as our Senior Vice President of International Sales in May 2024; and Kent James joined us in January 2025 as our Chief Commercial Officer for North America.

On November 29, 2024, we effected a 1-for-10 reverse stock split of our outstanding common stock (the "Reverse Stock Split"). The Reverse Stock Split did not impact the par value of our common stock or the authorized number of shares of our common stock.

On December 2, 2024, we entered into an asset purchase agreement with a third-party for the sale of certain assets, including intellectual property, associated with our Atlas web-based software platform, used by customers to organize and manage their solar project portfolios, for a price of $0.9 million, plus future potential earnout payments. The earnout payments, which could total up to $0.2 million, are contingent upon annual license renewals by certain existing customers during 2025.

On December 4, 2024, we entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with an institutional investor as the purchaser under the Purchase Agreement (the “Investor”). Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, we sold, and the Investor purchased $15.0 million in principal amount of senior secured promissory notes (the “Senior Notes”) and warrants (the “Warrants”) (the “Offering”). The Senior Notes mature on December 4, 2029. We granted a security interest to the Investor in substantially all of our assets and certain of our subsidiaries have each guaranteed our obligations under the Senior Notes, and the Senior Notes include the further covenants and terms summarized under "Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Liquidity and Capital Resources - Senior notes and warrants.".

The Warrants, which were valued at $5.2 million upon issuance and are included as a long-term liability in our Consolidated Balance Sheet, are exercisable for 10 years and allow for the purchase of an aggregate of up to 1,750,000 (on a post-split basis) shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.10 per share. A member of our Board of Directors, Pablo Barahona, invested $500,000 in the Investor, which was used to finance the purchase price of the Offering.

Finally, during 2024, we announced several large new project awards, involving supply agreements for delivery of up to 1 gigawatt of our tracker technology each with Strata Clean Energy, Sandhills Energy and Dunlieh Energy and we launched our automated hail stow solution, aimed at minimizing solar panel damage caused by hailstorms.

We are an emerging growth company, as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act. Under the JOBS Act, we elected to use the allowed extended transition period to delay adopting new or revised accounting standards until such time as those standards apply to private companies. We also qualify as a smaller reporting company under the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC").

Description of the business

We currently offer trackers and software solutions targeting the utility-scale solar energy markets to current and potential customers in the United States, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, South Africa and Australia.

Our Voyager tracking system is built upon a self-powered 2P single-axis tracker design utilizing a 60-meter independent row architecture, which we believe provides numerous advantages to our customers. We have expanded our Voyager tracker portfolio into ultra-large-format modules ("ULFMs") and U.S. thin-film modules to accommodate the different customer solar installations. We also improved the resilience of the trackers by increasing wind speed tolerance up to 150 miles per hour.

In addition, our Pioneer 1P solar tracker solution leverages technological advantages of Voyager and provides what we believe to be numerous cost savings benefits to our customers relative to other 1P solutions including faster assembly capability, a reduced pile count and embedment depth, and higher slope tolerance. We have continued to broaden compatibility options for Pioneer, including for ULFMs and the newest Series 7 U.S. thin-film modules, as well as additional foundation options, like screw piles.

Our SUNOPS operations management software is designed to help customers identify and resolve tracker underperformance issues, with insights down to a single tracker array. Our SUNPATH software can be used by customers to help recover energy lost due to row-to-row shading on undulating terrain and land-constrained sites while maximizing energy production on cloudy days, which allows our customers to maximize their solar site revenue. This is accomplished through adjusting the tracking angle of each row individually to minimize the impact of shadow casting, especially on undulating terrain, and to optimize tracking angles on cloudy days. SUNPATH leverages satellite imagery to predict cloud movements and to adjust the tracking system in real-time to provide optimal performance.

We continue to make efforts to expand our domestic and international footprint, along with our customer outreach efforts. As an example, in early 2025, we named one of the members of our executive leadership team as our Senior Vice President, Customer Excellence, to lead our initiatives to enhance customer satisfaction, retention and loyalty in order to support our long-term growth. In addition, in 2023, we established a Customer Advisory Board, chaired by the president of Powin, a global leader in energy storage systems, to provide support for our future expected growth and assist in our efforts to ensure a world-class customer experience.

The vast majority of our revenue in the periods presented in this Annual Report was attributable to sales by our legal entities in the United States and Australia.

Since 2022, we have also been focused on efforts to improve our gross margins through design-to-value initiatives intended to reduce our product cost structure, as well as other efforts to make our period cost structure more efficient, without sacrificing service to our customers.

We currently operate in one business segment, the manufacturing and servicing of solar tracker systems.

We report both product and service revenue in our consolidated financial statements. Product revenue is derived from the sale of solar tracker systems and customized components for those systems, individual part sales for certain specific transactions and the sale of term-based software licenses. Service revenue includes revenue from shipping and handling services, engineering consulting and pile testing services, our subscription-based enterprise licensing model and maintenance and support services in connection with the term-based software licenses.

We incur costs associated with the revenue generated related to (i) the raw materials used in our solar tracker systems, including parts and components, (ii) equipment manufacturing activities, net of incentives earned, (iii) personnel costs attributable to procurement, installation and delivery of finished products and services, (iv) freight and delivery, (v) product warranty, (vi) insurance, and (vii) customer support.

We currently outsource all manufacturing to contract manufacturing partners. We are focused on growing our U.S. manufacturing supply partners in order to reduce lead times for our customers, as well as other potential benefits. As an example, on February 9, 2023, we entered into a limited liability company agreement (the "LLC Agreement") with Taihua New Energy (Thailand) Co., LTD ("Taihua"), a leading steel fabricator and an existing vendor, and DAYV LLC, for the creation of Alpha Steel LLC ("Alpha Steel"), a Delaware limited liability company dedicated to producing steel components, including torque tubes and structural fasteners, for utility-scale and distributed generation solar projects. The Alpha Steel facility, which is located outside of Houston in Sealy, Texas, began limited commercial production late in the fourth quarter of 2023. For further discussion, see Note 11 "Equity method investment" included in our consolidated financial statements in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report.

In addition to Alpha Steel, we plan to continue to partner with other U.S.-based manufacturers to further add to our domestic content capabilities and we will continue to use existing and new international manufacturers to expand our capacity, as needed, to address anticipated increases in future volume.

Based on the U.S. dollar amount of purchase orders we issued during the year ended December 31, 2024, the percentage of our spending involved partners located in the following countries:

Vendor locationYear ended December 31, 2024
United States66%
China11%
India9%
Thailand5%
All other9%
Total100%

Market factors

Several market factors are driving the growth in solar energy including:

the declining cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules over the last several years, although this may be affected in the future in the event of higher tariffs being applied;

government incentives such as tax incentives, Renewable Portfolio Standards ("RPS") and international climate commitments to accelerate the adoption of solar energy;

increasing demand for electricity associated with new data center construction and expansion of the use of artificial intelligence;

environmental concerns regarding greenhouse gas emissions;

technological advancements in solar panel design and efficiency; and

corporate sustainability goals, among other factors.

Our global market opportunity is driven by three primary factors: (i) overall growth in utility-scale solar projects, (ii) the increased usage of trackers as the preferred mounting system in utility-scale solar projects and (iii) our ability to execute our product roadmap by providing new products that improve performance and cost efficiency of solar power projects.

Governments across the globe have established policies to support a transition away from fossil fuels and towards low-carbon forms of energy, such as solar power. In the United States, while there is no federal legislation implementing RPS, over half of the states have implemented their own RPS policies with some setting ambitious targets of 50% or even 100% of electric power coming from renewable energy sources by specific dates.

The U.S. government has typically relied on federal tax credits, grants and loan programs to encourage development of new renewable energy technologies and projects. The most notable incentive program impacting our U.S. business has historically been the investment tax credit ("ITC") for solar energy projects, which allows taxpayers to offset their U.S. federal income tax liability by a certain percentage of their cost basis in solar energy systems placed in service for commercial use. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 ("IRA"), passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Biden on August 16, 2022, expanded and extended the tax credits and other tax benefits available to solar energy projects and the solar energy supply chain. ITCs are currently available at a base rate of 30% for projects that begin construction by the end of 2032, and decline to 26% and 22% for projects beginning construction in 2033 and 2034, respectively. Bonus credits are additionally available for projects that meet applicable domestic content and prevailing wage and apprenticeship rules. U.S. manufacturers of specific solar components are now eligible to claim production tax credits under Section 45X of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, which was established as part of the IRA and is a per-unit tax credit earned for each clean energy component manufactured domestically and sold by a manufacturer. Our investment in, and commitments made to Alpha Steel allow us to obtain benefits of lower product costs from Alpha Steel as a result of the production tax credit program, subject to our level of purchases from Alpha Steel.

Globally, investments in renewable energy have accelerated since the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (the "Convention"), which became effective in 2016, and which requires signatory nations to set certain carbon reduction goals, among other commitments. However, the Trump Administration has issued an executive order to start the process to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement and is unlikely to support future international efforts to combat climate change. U.S. withdrawal from the Convention, however, does not limit the efforts by other signatories to achieve their commitments under the Convention.

Prior to the Trump Administration, these factors, along with efficiency improvements and cost reductions in the underlying photovoltaic cell technology used in solar energy production, have contributed to solar energy becoming the fastest growing source of new electricity in America. The U.S. Energy Information Administration, in its January 2025 Short-Term Energy Outlook, estimates that solar generation, as a result of capacity additions, will increase in the United States by 34% in 2025 and 17% in 2026 and will supply most of the increase in electrical generation during those years. The election of Donald Trump and Republican control of the U.S. Congress, has created uncertainty regarding whether changes will be made to available tax credits and other government subsidies and whether other actions will be taken by the Trump Administration or Congress that eliminate or reduce solar-related incentives and subsidies or that otherwise directly or indirectly impact the solar energy industry, and which could have an adverse impact on short- and long-term outlook of the solar industry in the U.S. and abroad.

Solar trackers have been gaining market share versus fixed-tilt mounting systems due to their ability to optimize energy production, accommodate more varied terrain and offer a more attractive return on investment. Based on information published in 2024 by Credence Research, in 2023, North America and Europe collectively accounted for over half of the solar tracker market with Asia Pacific having a market share around 38% - 42%. We believe we are well positioned to benefit from the accelerating adoption of both one and two-panel in-portrait tracker systems, bifacial panels and larger-format or higher-powered bifacial panels.

Our growth strategy is based on (i) increasing our market share in the United States, (ii) continuing our international expansion, including by increasing our sales to the distributed generation market, (iii) enhancing our tracker product offerings, (iv) reducing our operating costs through operating leverage, (v) expanding our software offering by supporting lean construction, operating, maintenance and lifecycle management and improving the attachment rate of enhanced software to tracker sales, and (vi) identifying additional strategic acquisitions or other opportunities.

Government policies and regulations

While U.S. federal and state governments have provided incentives for expansion of the use of solar energy, as described above, other policies and actions of the U.S. federal government have had a negative impact on demand through creation of uncertainty as to the ability and cost of importing solar modules into the United States.

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act ("UFLPA") was passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Biden on December 23, 2021. The UFLPA established a rebuttable presumption that the importation of any goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China ("Xinjiang"), or that are produced by certain entities, is prohibited by Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 and that such goods, wares, articles, and merchandise are not entitled to entry to the United States. U.S. Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") began implementing the presumption set out in the UFLPA on June 21, 2022, resulting in new rules for solar module importers and reviews by CBP.

On April 1, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce, in response to a petition by Auxin Solar, Inc. ("Auxin"), published a notice initiating an investigation ("the Solar Circumvention Investigation") of claims related to alleged circumvention of U.S. antidumping and countervailing duties ("AD/CVD") by solar manufacturers in certain Southeast Asian countries, in an effort to determine whether or not solar cells and/or modules made in those Southeast Asian nations use parts originating from China in order to circumvent the AD/CVD tariffs. On June 6, 2022, President Biden issued an Executive Order allowing U.S. solar deployers to import solar modules and cells from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam free from certain duties for 24 months, along with other incentives designed to accelerate U.S. domestic production of clean energy technologies. This moratorium ended in June 2024 and China-wide anti-dumping duties are now nearly 240% and countervailing duties for all other countries are over 15%. Additionally, on December 29, 2023, Auxin and Concept Clean Energy, Inc. filed suit in the U.S. Court of International Trade challenging the legal basis for the moratorium and implementing regulations. Several motions have been filed to date, including a motion to dismiss by the U.S. government, which the court rejected. If the suit proves successful, solar module importers could owe retroactive duties on goods that have already cleared customs. In addition, the U.S. Department of Commerce is currently conducting an antidumping and countervailing duty investigation into imports of Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells from Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia, which may result in additional duties imposed on imports from those nations.

These policies and actions, along with delays in receiving permits from certain local and state entities, and backlogs in the interconnection queue study process in various regions, resulted in some developers deferring projects, which negatively impacted our 2024 and 2023 revenue and cash flows and may continue to negatively impact our revenue and our cash flows in 2025.

There continues to be some uncertainty in the market around achieving full compliance with UFLPA, whether related to sufficient traceability of materials or other factors. Escalating trade tensions, particularly between the United States and China, have led to increased tariffs and trade restrictions, including tariffs applicable to certain raw materials and components for our products. We have taken measures with the intention of mitigating the effect of tariffs and the impact of AD/CVD and UFLPA on our business by reducing our reliance on China and enhancing our U.S.-based supply chain, including through our investment in Alpha Steel.

Environmental, social and governance (“ESG”)

Our mission and core values -

Our mission is to drive energy independence through effective and efficient solar engineering and innovation.

The following three central pillars are what we were founded on and what currently guides our company:

Sustainability, as we were born from sustainable products

Innovation in the energy transition

Asset-lightto provide efficient and flexible capacity

We accelerate the adoption of renewable energy by reducing the cost of construction, simplifying the installation process and improving the energy yield of solar projects, thus supporting the transition away from fossil fuels. We make solar energy generation more efficient and attainable with our software, engineering and differentiated products.

We are committed to the following core values in the way we do business:

Integrity - We do the right thing. We are humble and listen to new ideas. We respect our customers and our teammates.

Accountability - We are all accountable and act with urgency. We are transparent and deliver on our commitments. We come together to solve problems.

Innovation - We collaborate to create world class solutions. We foster a learning culture. We turn great ideas into our future.

Excellence- We are committed to high quality. We plan well and execute flawlessly. We are focused on results.

Environmental management -

We are committed to protecting our environment for the benefit of current and future generations. We design our products and operations to reduce environmental impacts and maximize environmental savings.

Since 2018, we have maintained ISO 14001:2015 certification through third-party assurance. The standard from the International Organization for Standardization ("ISO") details the requirements for an environmental management system that we use to measure and manage our environmental performance. Specifically, our tracker business is ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 certified, and through Intertek has met the standards necessary to qualify for the UL certification for solar trackers. Our contract manufacturing partners also undergo a qualification process to remain on our approved vendor list, which includes a review and assessment of their environmental performance.

We assess our emissions across our global operations, focusing initially on Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. Our Scope 1 emissions cover a fleet of light-duty trucks we operate for equipment delivery and technical support. Our Scope 2 emissions are associated with purchased electricity primarily at our offices in Texas, India, Australia. All of our manufacturing is outsourced to contract manufacturing partners, and we currently do not own or lease any manufacturing facilities.

We continue to shift away from non-renewable and non-recyclable materials, toward more sustainable materials, such as wood and paper, wherever possible. Additionally, we designed our solar tracker offerings to minimize steel content, to require no specialized tools and to reduce labor hours needed for installation and maintenance. We also launched a supplier engagement program dedicated to empowering our supply chain partners to integrate sustainable practices while ensuring consistent quality.

Social -

In addition to providing training to our employees and regular reinforcement of our core values, we have also invested resources in developing a workforce where our teams can enjoy a collaborative environment.

Personal health and safety of each employee is of utmost importance, and we work to continually improve our safety policies and procedures. Our employees do not directly perform solar installations, but we consider the safety of the on-site installers when designing our products and installation procedures.

ISO 45001 is a framework that was developed to address occupational health and safety risks in the workplace using best practices from international labor standards and regulatory agencies. As noted above, we hold ISO 45001:2018 certification and use a separate but aligned qualification process with our contract manufacturing partners.

We provide competitive medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance and savings plan benefits to our employees and regularly publicly recognize individual and teamwork and innovations in company-wide meetings.

Governance -

We are governed by a board of directors comprising seven members, including five independent members. Our board has established an audit committee, compensation committee and nominating and governance committee, consisting solely of independent members, to advise the full board on various matters. The audit committee will also periodically meet separately with our independent auditors, without the presence of management, to discuss any matters of importance or concern to our auditors. Additionally, our Director of Internal Audit organizationally reports directly to the audit committee.

Our executive officers serve at the discretion of our board of directors and hold office until his or her successor is duly appointed or until his or her earlier resignation or removal. There are no family relationships among any of our directors or executive officers. The following table sets forth certain information regarding our executive officers and members of our Board of Directors as of December 31, 2024:

NameAgeCompany Position/Board Member Occupation
Executive Officers
Yann Brandt42President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
Sasan Aminpour61Chief Operating Officer
Cathy Behnen61Chief Financial Officer
Non-employee Members of the Board of Directors
Shaker Sadasivam Chairman of the Board65Chief Executive Officer Auragent Bioscience, LLC
Pablo BarahonaDirector63Former President of Global Retail Markets WestLiberty Mutual
Ahmad ChatilaDirector57Managing Partner Fenice Investment Group
Lisan HungDirector56Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate SecretaryEnphase Energy, Inc.
William Aldeen "Dean" Priddy, Jr.Director63Private Investor, Board Member and Consultant
David SpringerDirector56Chief Operating Officer Recurrent Energy

In addition to our executive officers, our global executive leadership team at December 31, 2024, also included other individuals, including our Chief Human Resources Officer, Senior Vice President of Capital Markets and Business Development, Senior Vice President of North America Sales, Senior Vice President of International Sales and the Chief of Staff. Additional biographical information on our executive officers will be set forth in the 2025 Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders and is incorporated herein by reference.

Outlined below under "Human capital resources", is information on the diversity in gender, age and ethnicity of our board of directors, executive leadership team and employee population as of December 31, 2024.

Climate change

Climate change has primarily impacted our business operations by increasing demand for solar power generation and, as a result, for use of our products.

While climate change has not resulted in any material negative impact to our operations to date, we recognize the risk of disruptions to our supply chain due to extreme weather events. This, among other things, has led us to expand the diversity of our supplier base and to partner with more local suppliers to reduce shipping and transportation needs. We are also increasingly partnering with larger scale steel producers rather than smaller suppliers to facilitate scaling of our operations while remaining conscious of the environmental impacts of steel manufacturing as the regulatory landscape around these high-emitting industries evolves. An example of this strategy is our investment in Alpha Steel, a U.S.-based manufacturing partnership with a leading steel fabricator.

We also attempt to mitigate the climate-related risks from the use of our products by designing our equipment and systems to have a high-slope tolerance and wind mitigation capabilities, while at the same time reducing the required foundation/pile count needed. This allows our trackers to be installed in increasingly hostile environments with minimal disturbance to the surrounding land.

Seasonality

Our revenue may be impacted by seasonality and variability related to the timing of construction activity. Based on historical experience, we have experienced to some degree lower levels of customer purchasing during winter months in cold-weather climates as it is more costly to our customers to set foundations when the ground is frozen, however, such fluctuations due to seasonality have not had a material adverse impact on our operations.

Competition

The tracker industry is highly specialized and dominated by a relatively small number of companies. Our direct tracker competitors include Array Technologies, Inc., GameChange Solar, Nextracker Inc. and PVH. We also compete indirectly with manufacturers of fixed-tilt mounting systems. We compete on the basis of product performance and features, total cost of ownership (usually measured by the levelized cost of energy), reliability and duration of product warranty, sales, manufacturing and distribution capabilities, training, customer support and the ability to identify, hire and retain qualified personnel.

Several of our existing and potential competitors are significantly larger than we are and may have greater financial, marketing, manufacturing, distribution and customer support resources, as well as broader brand recognition and greater market penetration, especially in certain markets.

Patents, trademarks and trade names

We maintain a robust program of research and development to continue to enhance and expand our product offerings to our customers. During the year ended December 31, 2024, our research and development costs totaled $5.9 million, including employee salaries and benefit costs.

Our trademarks and trade names include, but are not limited to, Voyager Tracker, Pioneer Tracker, SUNPATH, SUNOPS and FTC Solar, which are protected under applicable intellectual property laws. This Annual Report also may contain trademarks, service marks, trade names and copyrights of other companies, which are the property of their respective owners. Solely for convenience, the trademarks, service marks, trade names and copyrights referred to in this Annual Report are listed without the TM, SM, © and ® symbols, but we will assert, to the fullest extent under applicable law, our rights or the rights of the applicable licensors, if any, to these trademarks, service marks, trade names and copyrights.

At December 31, 2024, we had patents in the following locations:

LocationsPatents GrantedPatents Allowed and Pending for Examination
United States492
Australia41
All other71
Total604

Our issued U.S. patents are expected to expire between 2027 and 2043.

Human capital resources

Our year-end headcount by department for each period was as follows:

DepartmentDecember 31,2024December 31,2023
Operations and support93106
Research and development4541
Sales and marketing2022
General and administrative4444
Total headcount at period end202213

Our employees at each year end were located in the following countries:

CountryDecember 31,2024December 31,2023
United States8295
India9092
China910
Australia45
All other1711
Total headcount at period end202213

We believe we have a diverse employee base in terms of gender, age, experience, background and ethnicity. As an example, the self-identified gender of our board of directors and global employee workforce at December 31, 2024, was as follows:

GenderBoard of DirectorsGlobal Executive Leadership TeamAll globalemployees
Male66164
Female1238
Total at period end78202

The age range for our board of directors and global employee workforce at December 31, 2024, was as follows:

Age range of directors and employeesBoard of DirectorsGlobal Executive Leadership TeamAll globalemployees
18 - 24——7
25 - 34—165
35 - 441381
45 - 54—232
55 and over6217
Total at period end78202

Additionally, we gather ethnicity information on our U.S. employees, which at December 31, 2024, was as follows:

EthnicityBoard of DirectorsU.S. based Executive Leadership TeamAll United Statesemployees
African American or Black—18
Asian2—15
Hispanic or Latinx119
White (not Hispanic or Latino)(a)4445
Two or more races (not Hispanic or Latino)—15
Total at period end7782
(a)One member of the board of directors self-identifies as Middle Eastern and one member of the board of directors is on the U.S.-based Executive Leadership Team.

We also seek to attract, advance and empower women in advancing their skills and career opportunities through networking, mentorship and professional development. As an example, we sponsor an internal Women's Innovation Network (WIN) which is focused on attracting, empowering and investing in women's skill and career opportunities. This group holds periodic on-line meetings and events open to the entire employee population at various times during each year. At December 31, 2024, women held the following leadership positions within the Company:

Leadership positions held by womenGlobal
Women on the board of directors1
Women on the compensation committee of the board of directors1
Women on the audit committee of the board of directors1
Women on the executive leadership team2
Female program managers18
Female people managers10

We use a mix of competitive base salary, performance-based equity compensation awards and other employee benefits to attract, retain and motivate highly qualified employees and executives. The health and safety of our employees are of primary concern. Many of our employees work remotely when feasible.

We encourage our employees to take appropriate precautions in accordance with guidance from public health organizations and in following company guidelines to protect their health and safety. Employees are expected to report all instances of unsafe working conditions or safety incidents that occur. We use the ISO 45001 framework to address occupational health and safety risks in the workplace, using best practices from international standards and regulatory agencies. We also provide training to employees on safety measures they are expected to follow, as well as providing appropriate personal protective equipment as needed. Our Executive Leadership Team frequently reviews and monitors safety statistics on our workforce and takes appropriate corrective action when necessary.

None of our employees are represented by a labor union, and we consider relations with our employees to be good.

Available information

We disseminate information about the Company through required filings we make with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and, at our discretion, on our website at www.ftcsolar.com.

Information contained on or connected to our website is not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report and should not be considered part of this Annual Report or other filings we make with the SEC. The SEC maintains a site that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding reporting issuers. Our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K are filed electronically and are available free of charge athttp://www.sec.gov. Additionally, these reports are available free of charge on our website as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC. Paper copies may also be obtained at no cost upon request to our Chief Financial Officer at 9020 North Capital of Texas Hwy., Building 1, Suite 260, Austin, TX 78759 or by calling (737) 787-7906.

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