Red Violet Inc

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Organizations are challenged by the structure, volume, and disparity of data. Our platform and applications transform the way our customers interact with information, presenting connections and relevance of information otherwise unattainable, which drives actionable insights and better outcomes. Leveraging cloud-native proprietary technology and applying machine learning and advanced analytical capabilities, CORE provides essential solutions to public and private sector organizations through intuitive, easy-to-use analytical interfaces. With massive data assets consisting of public record, proprietary, and publicly-available data, our differentiated information and innovative platform and solutions deliver identity intelligence – entities, relationships, affiliations, interactions, and events. Our solutions are used today to enable frictionless commerce, to ensure safety, and to reduce fraud and the concomitant expense borne by society.

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Organizations are challenged by the structure, volume, and disparity of data. Our platform and applications provide real-time analytics, transforming the way our customers interact with information by presenting connections and relevance of information otherwise unattainable, which drives actionable insights and better outcomes. Leveraging cloud-native proprietary technology and applying machine learning and advanced analytical capabilities, CORE provides essential solutions to public and private sector organizations through intuitive, easy-to-use analytical interfaces. With massive data assets consisting of public record, proprietary, and publicly-available data, our differentiated information and innovative platform and solutions deliver identity intelligence – entities, relationships, affiliations, interactions, and events. Our solutions are used today to enable frictionless commerce, to ensure safety, and to reduce fraud and the concomitant expense borne by society.

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While our platform powers a vast array of solutions for our customers, we presently market our solutions primarily through two brands, IDI™and FOREWARN®. IDI is a leading-edge, analytics and information solutions provider delivering actionable intelligence to an expansive and diverse set of industries in support of use cases such as the verification and authentication of consumer identities, due diligence, prevention of fraud and abuse, legislative compliance, and debt recovery. idiCORE™ is IDI's flagship product. idiCORE is a next-generation, investigative solution used to address a variety of organizational challenges, including, but not limited to, due diligence, risk mitigation, identity authentication, and regulatory compliance, by financial services companies, insurance companies, healthcare companies, law enforcement and government, identity verification platforms, collections, law firms, retail, telecommunication companies, corporate security, and investigative firms. FOREWARN is an app-based solution currently tailored for the real estate industry, providing instant knowledge prior to face-to-face engagement with a consumer, helping professionals identify and mitigate risk. As of September 30, 2024 and 2023, IDI had 8,743 and 7,769 billable customers and FOREWARN had 284,967 and 168,356 users, respectively. We define a billable customer of IDI as a single entity that generated revenue during the last three months of the period. Billable customers are typically corporate organizations. In most cases, corporate organizations will have multiple users and/or departments purchasing our solutions, however, we count the entire organization as a discrete customer. We define a user of FOREWARN as a unique person that has a subscription to use the FOREWARN service as of the last day of the period. A unique person can only have one user account.

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While our platform powers a vast array of solutions for our customers, we presently market our solutions primarily through two brands, IDI™and FOREWARN®. IDI is a leading-edge, analytics and information solutions provider delivering actionable intelligence to an expansive and diverse set of industries in support of use cases such as the verification and authentication of consumer identities, due diligence, prevention of fraud and abuse, legislative compliance, and debt recovery. idiCORE™ is IDI's flagship product. idiCORE is a next-generation, investigative solution used to address a variety of organizational challenges, including, but not limited to, due diligence, risk mitigation, identity authentication, and regulatory compliance, by financial services companies, insurance companies, healthcare companies, law enforcement and government, identity verification platforms, collections, law firms, retail, telecommunication companies, corporate security, and investigative firms. FOREWARN is an app-based solution currently tailored for the real estate industry, providing instant knowledge prior to face-to-face engagement with a consumer, helping professionals identify and mitigate risk. As of March 31, 2025 and 2024, IDI had 9,241 and 8,241 billable customers, respectively, and FOREWARN had 325,336 and 236,639 users, respectively. We define a billable customer of IDI as a single entity that generated revenue during the last three months of the period. Billable customers are typically corporate organizations. In most cases, corporate organizations will have multiple users and/or departments purchasing our solutions, however, we count the entire organization as a discrete customer. We define a user of FOREWARN as a unique person that has a subscription to use the FOREWARN service as of the last day of the period. A unique person can only have one user account.

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We generate substantially all of our revenue from licensing our solutions. Customers access our solutions through a hosted environment using an online interface, batch processing, API and custom integrations. We recognize revenue from licensing fees (a) on a transactional basis determined by the customer’s usage, (b) via a monthly fee or (c) from a combination of both. Revenue pursuant to pricing contracts containing a monthly fee is recognized ratably over the contract period. Pricing contracts are generally annual contracts or longer, with auto renewal. For the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, 77% and 79% of total revenue was attributable to customers with pricing contracts, respectively, versus 23% and 21% attributable to transactional customers, respectively. For the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, 76% and 78% of total revenue was attributable to customers with pricing contracts, respectively, versus 24% and 22% attributable to transactional customers, respectively.

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We generate substantially all of our revenue from licensing our solutions. Customers access our solutions through a hosted environment using an online interface, batch processing, API and custom integrations. We recognize revenue from licensing fees (a) on a transactional basis determined by the customer’s usage, (b) via a monthly fee or (c) from a combination of both. Revenue pursuant to pricing contracts containing a monthly fee is recognized ratably over the contract period. Pricing contracts are generally annual contracts or longer, with auto renewal. For the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, 74% and 78% of total revenue was attributable to customers with pricing contracts, respectively, versus 26% and 22% attributable to transactional customers, respectively.

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Gross profit increased 28% to $13.4 million. Gross margin increased to 70% from 66%.

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Gross profit increased 37% to $15.8 million. Gross margin increased to 72% from 66%.

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Adjusted gross profit increased 26% to $15.7 million. Adjusted gross margin increased to 83% from 79%.

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Adjusted gross profit increased 33% to $18.3 million. Adjusted gross margin increased to 83% from 79%.

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Adjusted EBITDA increased 25% to $6.7 million. Adjusted EBITDA margin increased to 35% from 34%.

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Adjusted EBITDA increased 47% to $8.4 million. Adjusted EBITDA margin increased to 38% from 32%.

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Adjusted net income increased 23% to $3.2 million, which resulted in adjusted earnings of $0.23 and $0.22 per basic and diluted share, respectively.

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Adjusted net income increased 53% to $4.8 million, which resulted in adjusted earnings of $0.35 and $0.33 per basic and diluted share, respectively.

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Cash and cash equivalents were $35.7 million as of September 30, 2024.

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Cash and cash equivalents were $34.6 million as of March 31, 2025.

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Third Quarter and Recent Business Highlights

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First Quarter and Recent Business Highlights

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Added 266 customers to IDI during the third quarter, ending the quarter with 8,743 customers.

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Added 315 customers to IDI during the first quarter, ending the quarter with 9,241 customers.

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Added 21,091 users to FOREWARN during the third quarter, ending the quarter with 284,967 users. Over 500 REALTOR® Associations throughout the U.S. are now contracted to use FOREWARN.

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Added 21,918 users to FOREWARN during the first quarter, ending the quarter with 325,336 users. Over 545 REALTOR® Associations throughout the U.S. are now contracted to use FOREWARN.

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Management evaluates the financial performance of our business on a variety of key indicators, including non-GAAP metrics of adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income, adjusted earnings per share, adjusted gross profit, adjusted gross margin, and free cash flow ("FCF"). Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure equal to net income, the most directly comparable financial measure based on US GAAP, excluding interest income, net, income tax expense (benefit), depreciation and amortization, share-based compensation expense, litigation costs, and write-off of long-lived assets and others. We define adjusted EBITDA margin as adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of revenue. Adjusted net income is a non-GAAP financial measure equal to net income, the most directly comparable financial measure based on US GAAP, excluding share-based compensation expense, amortization of share-based compensation capitalized in intangible assets, and discrete tax items, and including the tax effect of adjustments. We define adjusted earnings per share as adjusted net income divided by the weighted average shares outstanding. We define adjusted gross profit as revenue less cost of revenue (exclusive of depreciation and amortization), and adjusted gross margin as adjusted gross profit as a percentage of revenue. We define FCF as net cash provided by operating activities reduced by purchase of property and equipment, and capitalized costs included in intangible assets.

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Management evaluates the financial performance of our business on a variety of key indicators, including non-GAAP metrics of adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income, adjusted earnings per share, adjusted gross profit, adjusted gross margin, and free cash flow ("FCF"). Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure equal to net income, the most directly comparable financial measure based on US GAAP, excluding interest income, income tax expense, depreciation and amortization, share-based compensation expense, litigation costs, and write-off of long-lived assets and others. We define adjusted EBITDA margin as adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of revenue. Adjusted net income is a non-GAAP financial measure equal to net income, the most directly comparable financial measure based on US GAAP, adjusted to exclude share-based compensation expense, and amortization of share-based compensation capitalized in intangible assets, and to include the tax effect of adjustments. We define adjusted earnings per share as adjusted net income divided by the weighted average shares outstanding. We define adjusted gross profit as gross profit plus depreciation and amortization of certain intangible assets, and adjusted gross margin as adjusted gross profit as a percentage of revenue. We define FCF as net cash provided by operating activities reduced by purchase of property and equipment and capitalized costs included in intangible assets.

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(2) The tax effect of adjustments is calculated using the expected federal and state statutory tax rate. The expected federal and state income tax rate was approximately 26.00% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, and 25.75% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023.

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(1) The tax effect of adjustments is calculated using the expected federal and state statutory tax rate. The expected federal and state income tax rate was approximately 26.00% and 25.75% for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

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We believe adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income, adjusted earnings per share, adjusted gross profit, adjusted gross margin, and FCF are relevant and provide useful information frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in their evaluation of the operating performance of companies similar to ours and are indicators of the operational strength of our business. We believe adjusted EBITDA eliminates the uneven effect of considerable amounts of non-cash depreciation and amortization, share-based compensation expense and the impact of other non-recurring items, providing useful comparisons versus prior periods or forecasts. Adjusted EBITDA margin is calculated as adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of revenue. We believe adjusted net income provides additional means of evaluating period-over-period operating performance by eliminating certain non-cash expenses and other items that might otherwise make comparisons of our ongoing business with prior periods more difficult and obscure trends in ongoing operations. Adjusted net income is a non-GAAP financial measure equal to net income, excluding share-based compensation expense, and amortization of share-based compensation capitalized in intangible assets, and including the tax effect of adjustments. We define adjusted earnings per share as adjusted net income divided by the weighted average shares outstanding. Our adjusted gross profit is a measure used by management in evaluating the business’s current operating performance by excluding the impact of prior historical costs of assets that are expensed systematically and allocated over the estimated useful lives of the assets, which may not be indicative of the current operating activity. Our adjusted gross profit is calculated by using revenue, less cost of revenue (exclusive of depreciation and amortization). We believe adjusted gross profit provides useful information to our investors by eliminating the impact of non-cash depreciation and amortization, and specifically the amortization of software developed for internal use, providing a baseline of our core operating results that allow for analyzing trends in our underlying business consistently over multiple periods. Adjusted gross margin is calculated as adjusted gross profit as a percentage of revenue. We believe FCF is an important liquidity measure of the cash that is available, after capital expenditures, for operational expenses and investment in our business. FCF is a measure used by management to understand and evaluate the business’s operating performance and trends over time. FCF is calculated by using net cash provided by operating activities, less purchase of property and equipment, and capitalized costs included in intangible assets.

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We believe adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income, adjusted earnings per share, adjusted gross profit, adjusted gross margin, and FCF are relevant and provide useful information frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in their evaluation of the operating performance of companies similar to ours and are indicators of the operational strength of our business. We believe adjusted EBITDA eliminates the uneven effect of considerable amounts of non-cash depreciation and amortization, share-based compensation expense, and the impact of other non-recurring items, providing useful comparisons versus prior periods or forecasts. Adjusted EBITDA margin is calculated as adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of revenue. We believe adjusted net income provides additional means of evaluating period-over-period operating performance by eliminating certain non-cash expenses and other items that might otherwise make comparisons of our ongoing business with prior periods more difficult and obscure trends in ongoing operations. Adjusted net income is a non-GAAP financial measure equal to net income, adjusted to exclude share-based compensation expense, and amortization of share-based compensation capitalized in intangible assets, and to include the tax effect of adjustments. We define adjusted earnings per share as adjusted net income divided by the weighted average shares outstanding. Our adjusted gross profit is a measure used by management in evaluating the business’s current operating performance by excluding the impact of prior historical costs of assets that are expensed systematically and allocated over the estimated useful lives of the assets, which may not be indicative of the current operating activity. We define adjusted gross profit as gross profit plus depreciation and amortization of certain intangible assets. We believe adjusted gross profit provides useful information to our investors by eliminating the impact of certain non-cash depreciation and amortization, and primarily the amortization of software developed for internal use, providing a baseline of our core operating results that allow for analyzing trends in our underlying business consistently over multiple periods. Adjusted gross margin is calculated as adjusted gross profit as a percentage of revenue. We believe FCF is an important liquidity measure of the cash that is available, after capital expenditures, for operational expenses and investment in our business. FCF is a measure used by management to understand and evaluate the business’s operating performance and trends over time. FCF is calculated by using net cash provided by operating activities, less purchase of property and equipment and capitalized costs included in intangible assets.

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Revenue. Revenue increased $3.3 million or 20% to $19.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024 from $15.8 million for the three months ended September 30, 2023. Revenue from new customers increased $0.3 million or 19%, base revenue from existing customers increased $2.9 million or 23%, and growth revenue from existing customers increased $0.1 million or 3%. Our IDI billable customer base grew from 7,769 customers as of September 30, 2023 to 8,743 customers as of September 30, 2024, and our FOREWARN user base grew from 168,356 users to 284,967 users during that same period. Revenue from new customers represents the total monthly revenue generated from new customers in a given period. A customer is defined as a new customer during the first six months of revenue generation. Base revenue from existing customers represents the total monthly revenue generated from existing customers in a given period that does not exceed the customers' trailing six-month average revenue. A customer is defined as an existing customer six months after their initial month of revenue. Growth revenue from existing customers represents the total monthly revenue generated from existing customers in a given period in excess of the customers' trailing six-month average revenue.

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Revenue from new customers increased $1.3 million, or 80%.

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Cost of revenue (exclusive of depreciation and amortization). Cost of revenue remained consistent at $3.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023. Our cost of revenue primarily includes data acquisition costs. Data acquisition costs consist primarily of the costs to acquire data either on a transactional basis or through flat-fee data licensing agreements, including unlimited usage agreements. We continue to enhance the breadth and depth of our data through the addition and expansion of relationships with key data suppliers, including our largest data supplier, which accounted for 48% and 47% of our total data acquisition costs for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Other cost of revenue items include expenses related to third-party infrastructure fees and pertinent personnel costs.

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Our cost of revenue primarily consists of data acquisition costs, which includes the cost to acquire data under flat-fee licensing agreements, including unlimited usage arrangements, as well as purchases on a transactional basis. We continue to enhance the breadth and depth of our data by the addition and expansion of relationships with key data suppliers, including our largest data supplier, which accounted for 43% and 41% of our total data acquisition costs for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

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Sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing expenses increased $1.4 million or 43% to $4.8 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024 from $3.4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2023. Sales and marketing expenses consist of salaries and benefits, advertising and marketing, travel expenses, and share-based compensation expense, incurred by our sales team, and provision for bad debts. The increase during the three months ended September 30, 2024 was primarily attributable to the increase of $1.3 million in salaries and benefits, and sales commission.

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Sales and marketing expenses include personnel-related expenses, advertising, marketing and agency expenses, travel expenses, and share-based compensation expense incurred by our sales team, and provision for bad debts.

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General and administrative expenses. General and administrative expenses increased $0.8 million or 15% to $6.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024 from $5.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2023. For the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, our general and administrative expenses consisted primarily of employee salaries and benefits of $2.9 million and $2.4 million, respectively, share-based compensation expense of $1.5 million and $1.3 million, respectively, and professional fees of $0.9 million and $0.9 million, respectively.

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For the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, general and administrative expenses consisted primarily of:

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Interest income, net. Interest income, net increased $0.1 million or 1% to $0.4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024 from $0.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2023. This was primarily due to interest income earned on investments in certain money market funds.

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Interest income decreased $0.1 million, or 16%, to $0.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to $0.4 million for the same period in 2024.

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Net income. Net income was $1.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to $12.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2023, as a result of the foregoing.

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Net income increased $1.6 million, or 93%, to $3.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to $1.8 million for the same period in 2024, as a result of the foregoing.

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Cash flows provided by operating activities. For the nine months ended September 30, 2024, net cash provided by operating activities was $17.3 million, primarily the result of the net income of $6.1 million, adjusted for certain non-cash items (consisting of share-based compensation expense, depreciation and amortization, write-off of long-lived assets, provision for bad debts, noncash lease expenses, and deferred income tax expense (benefit)) totaling $14.4 million, and the cash used as a result of changes in assets and liabilities of $3.3 million, primarily the result of the increase in accounts receivable, prepaid expenses and other current assets, and other noncurrent assets, and the decrease in accrued expenses and other current liabilities, and operating lease liabilities, which was partially offset by the increase in accounts payable. For the nine months ended September 30, 2023, net cash provided by operating activities was $10.9 million, primarily the result of the net income of $14.6 million, adjusted for certain non-cash items, as mentioned above, totaling $(1.3) million, and the cash used as a result of changes in assets and liabilities of $5.0 million, primarily the result of the increase in accounts receivable, and prepaid expenses and other current assets, and the decrease in accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities, and operating lease liabilities.

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Cash flows provided by operating activities

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Cash flows used in investing activities. For the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, net cash used in investing activities was $7.3 million and $7.0 million, respectively, primarily as a result of capitalized costs included in intangible assets.

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For the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, net cash used in investing activities was $2.5 million and $2.4 million, respectively, primarily as a result of capitalized costs included in intangible assets.

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As of September 30, 2024, we had material commitments under certain data licensing agreements of $15.2 million. We anticipate funding our operations using available cash and cash flow generated from operations within the next twelve months.

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As of March 31, 2025, we had material commitments under certain data licensing agreements totaling $11.5 million.

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As of September 30, 2024, we had cash and cash equivalents of approximately $35.7 million. Based on projections of growth in revenue and operating results in the next twelve months, and the available cash and cash equivalents held by us, we believe that we will have sufficient cash resources to finance our operations and expected capital expenditures for the next twelve months.

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Based on our projected growth in revenue and operating results over the next twelve months, and the available cash on hand, we believe that our existing resources will be sufficient to fund operations and expected capital expenditures for at least the next twelve months.