Freshworks Inc.
For the period ended Mar 31, 2025. Filed Apr 29, 2025.
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Mar 31, 2025 · Filed Apr 29, 2025
What changed in Management’s Discussion and Analysis?
Read the current filingPrevious report: 10-Q
Period ended 2024-09-30; filed 2024-11-06.
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of OperationsCurrent report: 10-Q
Period ended 2025-03-31; filed 2025-04-29.
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of OperationsThe baseline is this issuer’s latest earlier reporting period of the same form that was filed before the current report. A previous 10-Q is a different quarter, not a year-over-year comparison. Amendments are excluded.
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59 unchanged; 34 reworded; 12 added; 28 removed; 3 previous and 2 current paragraphs rearranged.
Tables are not compared: 18 previous and 13 current tables excluded. Dates, whitespace, punctuation and numbering changes are ignored; changes to financial figures remain significant.
A changed paragraph is not evidence that risk increased or decreased. An unchanged paragraph does not establish that risk stayed the same.
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•Restructuring charges. We exclude restructuring charges, which primarily consist of employee severance and other employee termination benefits associated with the restructuring plan initiated in November 2024, from our non-GAAP financial measures, because we do not believe these expenses have a direct correlation to the operating performance of our business.
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(1) Free cash flow includes $1.5 million of restructuring costs paid during the three months ended March 31, 2025.
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Operating Expenses
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Restructuring Charges. Restructuring charges primarily consist of employee severance and other employee termination benefits associated with the restructuring plan that we initiated in November 2024. Refer to Note 12—Restructuring Charges of our condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for additional information.
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Operating Expenses
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General and administrative expense increased by $5.2 million, or 12%, for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. This was primarily driven by increases of $2.6 million in stock-based compensation expense, primarily due to transition of our President to CEO mid 2024 and $2.0 million in personnel-related costs primarily due to annual compensation adjustments and higher variable incentive compensation.
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Restructuring charges
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Restructuring charges of $0.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, consisted of employee severance and termination benefits related to the restructuring plan that we initiated in November 2024.
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As of March 31, 2025, our principal sources of liquidity were cash and cash equivalents of $594.2 million and marketable securities of $401.1 million, which were primarily held for working capital resources.
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Our material cash requirements from known contractual obligations consists of our obligations under operating leases for office space and contractual obligations for third-party cloud infrastructure. See Note 7 — Leases and Note 8 — Commitments and Contingencies for additional discussion of our principal contractual commitments.
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In November 2024, our board of directors approved the share repurchase program, which authorized the repurchase of up to $400 million of our outstanding Class A common stock. For the three months ended March 31, 2025, we repurchased a total of 6.7 million shares of Class A common stock under this program in open market transactions for an aggregate purchase price of $111.8 million. As of March 31, 2025, $272.7 million remained available for future share repurchases.
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As of March 31, 2025, we did not have any relationships with unconsolidated organizations or financial partnerships, such as structured finance or special purpose entities that would have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements or other contractually narrow or limited purposes.
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Our mission is to make it fast and easy for businesses to delight their customers and employees.
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In June 2024, we acquired all outstanding shares of D42 Parent, Inc., (Device42), an IT asset management company for approximately $238.1 million, which primarily consisted of $225.3 million in cash, and approximately $12.9 million of common stock and stock options. Our consolidated financial statements and key business metrics as of and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 include Device42 since the acquisition date.
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General and administrative expense increased by $6.0 million, or 15%, for the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023. This was primarily driven by increases of $3.1 million in stock-based compensation expense, $2.5 million in personnel-related costs and $0.6 million in professional services fees, partially offset by decrease of $0.5 million in directors and officers' insurance.
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Comparison of the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024 and 2023
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Revenue
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Cost of revenue increased by $7.5 million, or 10%, for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023. This was primarily due to increases of $2.0 million in amortization of developed technologies and internally capitalized software, $1.9 million in third-party hosting costs, $1.4 million in software license fees and $1.0 million in professional service fees. Our gross margin increased to 84% for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 from 82% in the same period of the prior year, as we increased our revenue and realized benefits from economies of scale primarily related to our third-party hosting costs.
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The $66.7 million, or 14%, increase in our operating expenses in the nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023, was primarily driven by increases in personnel-related costs due to annual compensation adjustments, net of certain changes in employee incentives, changes in stock-based compensation expense, advertising, marketing and branding expenses and professional fees.
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Research and Development
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Research and development expense increased by $21.6 million, or 21%, for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023. This was primarily driven by increases of $12.1 million in personnel-related costs, $3.8 million in stock-based compensation expense, $1.5 million lower capitalization for internally developed software, $0.9 million in professional services fees, $0.8 million in software license fees, $0.7 million in web hosting costs, $0.7 million in travel expenses and $0.6 million in rent expenses.
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Sales and Marketing
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Sales and marketing expense increased by $34.7 million, or 13%, for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023. This was primarily driven by increases of $15.7 million in personnel-related costs, $6.5 million in advertisement, marketing and branding costs, $3.1 million in reseller commissions, $3.0 million in travel expenses, $2.8 million in amortization of acquired intangible assets, $2.0 million in professional services fees, $0.9 million in subscription costs and $0.6 million in rent expenses, partially offset by $0.8 million in stock-based compensation expense.
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General and Administrative
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General and administrative expense increased by $10.4 million, or 8%, for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023. This was primarily driven by increases of $4.9 million in personnel-related costs, $3.3 million in stock-based compensation expense, $2.9 million in professional services fees, comprised primarily of legal, accounting and consulting fees and $0.5 million in software license fees, partially offset by decreases of $1.6 million in directors and officers' insurance and $1.0 million in tax-related costs.
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Other income (expense), net changed by $1.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023, primarily due to a favorable impact from changes in foreign exchange in British Pound against the U.S. dollar.
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We are subject to federal and state income taxes in the United States and taxes in foreign jurisdictions. The benefit from income taxes was $1.4 million and the income tax expense was $10.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The net increase in tax benefit of $12.3 million was primarily related to a tax benefit of $14.3 million from the Device42 acquisition in the current year, partially offset by higher tax expenses due to higher foreign profits before tax.
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The increase in tax benefit of $14.3 million in this period is primarily due to the net deferred tax liability generated from the acquisition of Device42, which provided sufficient taxable income to release valuation allowance.
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As of September 30, 2024, we had cash and cash equivalents of $391.1 million and marketable securities of $663.9 million. Our marketable securities consist primarily of U.S. treasury securities, U.S. government agency securities, corporate debt securities, and certificates of deposit.
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Our other material cash requirements are related to the settlement of future contractual obligations associated with operating leases and other service subscription agreements (as described in Contractual Obligations and Commitments below).
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Remaining Performance Obligations on Customer Contracts
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We generally enter into subscription and software license agreements with our customers on monthly, annual, or multi-year terms and invoice customers in advance in either monthly or annual installments. A small portion of our annual contracts may have billing terms that are different from their subscription terms and most of our multi-year contracts are invoiced annually. As of September 30, 2024, remaining performance obligations totaled $488.9 million, which comprised $299.4 million of deferred revenue and $189.5 million of unbilled amounts.
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We expect that the value of the remaining performance obligations will change from one period to another for several reasons, including new contracts, timing of renewals, cancellations, contract modifications and foreign currency fluctuations. We believe that fluctuations in remaining performance obligations are not necessarily a reliable indicator of future revenue and we do not utilize it as a key management metric internally.
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Contractual Obligations and Commitments
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Our principal commitments consist of operating lease obligations for office space and contractual obligations under third-party cloud infrastructure agreements and service subscription agreements.
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As of September 30, 2024, our estimated future contractual obligations totaled $323.4 million, of which $31.2 million and $292.2 million were operating lease commitments and other contractual obligations, respectively. See Note 8—Leases and Note 9—Commitments and Contingencies in the condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for more information.
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Indemnification Agreements
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In the ordinary course of business, we enter into agreements of varying scope and terms pursuant to which we agree to indemnify customers, vendors, lessors, business partners, and other parties with respect to certain matters, including, but not limited to, losses arising out of the breach of such agreements, services to be provided by us, or from data breaches or intellectual property infringement claims made by third parties. In addition, we have entered into indemnification agreements with our directors and certain officers and employees that will require us, among other things, to indemnify them against certain liabilities that may arise by reason of their status or service as directors, officers, or employees. No demands have been made upon us to provide indemnification under such agreements and there are no claims that we are aware of that could have a material effect on our condensed consolidated balance sheets, condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss, or condensed consolidated statements of cash flows.
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Software license revenue are generally sold as bundled arrangements that include the rights to a software license and maintenance. For these contracts, the transaction price is allocated to the separate performance obligations on the basis of relative standalone selling price. Software license revenue consists of term licenses and is recognized upfront, upon making the software available to the customer. The associated software maintenance revenue is generally recognized ratably over the contract term as support and updates are provided to the customers over the term of the arrangement.
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We provide people-first, AI service software that organizations use to deliver exceptional customer and employee experiences. We provide our solutions in two product families: Customer Experience (CX) and Employee Experience (EX). CX products include Freshdesk, Freshchat, Freshsales, and Freshmarketer. EX products include Freshservice, Freshservice for Business Teams and Device42. Our latest generative AI solutions, Freddy AI Agent and Freddy AI Copilot, further enhance the customer and employee experience.
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We provide people-first, AI service software that organizations use to deliver exceptional customer and employee experiences. We provide our solutions in two product families: Customer Experience (CX) and Employee Experience (EX). CX products include Freshdesk, Freshdesk Omni, Freshchat, Freshsales, and Freshmarketer. EX products include Freshservice, Freshservice for Business Teams and Device42. Our latest generative AI solutions, Freddy AI Agent and Freddy AI Copilot, further enhance the customer and employee experience. Freddy AI Agent offers always-on, autonomous, personalized resolutions to customer and employee queries. Freddy AI Copilot provides always-on contextual assistance for customer support, employee support, marketing and sales use cases to boost productivity.
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We generate revenue primarily from the sale of subscriptions for accessing our cloud-based software products over the contract term. We generally enter into subscription agreements with our customers on monthly, annual, or multi-year terms and invoice customers in advance in either monthly or annual installments. We also sell professional services that include product configuration, data migration, systems integration, and training. With the acquisition of Device42 in the quarter ended June 30, 2024, we also sell software licenses with associated maintenance.
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We generate revenue primarily from the sale of subscriptions for accessing our cloud-based software products over the contract term. We generally enter into subscription agreements with our customers on monthly, annual, or multi-year terms and invoice customers in advance in either monthly or annual installments. We also sell professional services that include product configuration, data migration, systems integration, and training. With the acquisition of D42 Parent, Inc. in 2024, we also sell software licenses with associated maintenance.
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Our customer base and operations have scaled over time. Our total revenue was $186.6 million and $153.6 million in the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively, representing year-over-year growth of 22%; and $525.8 million and $436.3 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively, representing year-over-year growth of 21%. We incurred operating losses of $38.9 million and $38.7 million for three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively; and $114.8 million and $130.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
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Our customer base and operations have scaled over time. Our total revenue was $196.3 million and $165.1 million in the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, representing year-over-year growth of 19%. We incurred operating losses of $10.4 million and $32.2 million for three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
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Current macroeconomic uncertainties, including inflationary pressures, significant volatility in global markets, and geopolitical developments have impacted and may continue to impact business spending and the overall economy, and in turn our business. These macroeconomic events could adversely affect demand for our products and services. For example, during the recent quarters, our net dollar retention rate was adversely impacted by lower expansion within existing customers driven by macroeconomic pressures and we expect these pressures to persist for the foreseeable future. Additionally, foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations negatively impacted our revenue growth historically and volatility in the foreign currency market may still exist. For each of the quarters ended September 30, 2024, June 30, 2024 and September 30, 2023, we had approximately 27% of revenue exposure related to the euro and British Pound. If adverse conditions arise, they could have a material adverse impact on our results and our ability to accurately predict our future results and earnings.
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Current macroeconomic uncertainties, including inflationary pressures, significant volatility in global markets, tariffs, the threat of new or increased tariffs, escalating trade tensions, and geopolitical developments have impacted and may continue to impact business spending and the overall economy, and in turn our business. These macroeconomic events could adversely affect demand for our products and services. For example, during the recent quarters, our net dollar retention rate was adversely impacted by lower expansion within existing customers driven by macroeconomic pressures and we expect these pressures to persist for the foreseeable future. Additionally, foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations negatively impacted our revenue growth historically and volatility in the foreign currency market still exist. For each of the quarters ended March 31, 2025, December 31, 2024 and March 31, 2024, we had approximately 27%, 27% and 28%, respectively, of revenue exposure related to the euro and British Pound. If adverse conditions arise, they could have a material adverse impact on our results and our ability to accurately predict our future results and earnings.
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Given our business model is primarily subscription-based, the effects of the macroeconomic conditions may not be fully reflected in our revenue until future periods. The ultimate impact on our business and operations remains highly uncertain, and it is not possible for us to predict the duration and extent to which this will affect our business, productivity of our employees, future results of operations, and financial condition.
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Given our business model is primarily subscription-based, the effects of the macroeconomic conditions may not be fully reflected in our revenue until future periods. The ultimate impact on our business and operations remains highly uncertain, and it is not possible for us to predict the duration and extent to which this will affect our business, future results of operations, and financial condition.
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We define ARR as the sum total of subscription, software license, and maintenance revenue we would contractually expect to recognize over the next 12 months from all customers at a point in time, assuming no increases, reductions, or cancellations in their subscriptions, and assuming that revenues are recognized ratably over the term of the contract. For monthly subscriptions, we take the recurring revenue run-rate of such subscriptions for the last month of the period and multiply it by 12 to get to ARR. While monthly subscribers as a group have historically maintained or increased their subscriptions over time, there is no guarantee that any particular customer on a monthly subscription will renew its subscription in any given month, and therefore the calculation of ARR for these monthly subscriptions may not accurately reflect revenue to be received over a 12-month period from such customers, and net dollar retention rate may reflect a higher rate than the actual rate if customers on monthly subscriptions choose not to renew during the course of the 12 months. Monthly subscriptions represented 15% and 18% of ARR as of September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The net dollar retention rate for customers on monthly contracts has generally been lower than our overall net dollar retention rate. In addition, as part of our regular review of customer data that includes reviewing customers purchasing our products via resellers so we can properly attribute them as end customers, we may make adjustments that could impact the calculation of net dollar retention rate.
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We define ARR as the sum total of subscription, software license, and maintenance revenue we would contractually expect to recognize over the next 12 months from all customers at a point in time, assuming no increases, reductions, or cancellations in their subscriptions, and assuming that revenues are recognized ratably over the term of the contract. For monthly subscriptions, we take the recurring revenue run-rate of such subscriptions for the last month of the period and multiply it by 12 to get to ARR. While monthly subscribers as a group have historically maintained or increased their subscriptions over time, there is no guarantee that any particular customer on a monthly subscription will renew its subscription in any given month, and therefore the calculation of ARR for these monthly subscriptions may not accurately reflect revenue to be received over a 12-month period from such customers, and net dollar retention rate may reflect a higher rate than the actual rate if customers on monthly subscriptions choose not to renew during the course of the 12 months. Monthly subscriptions represented 14% and 16% of ARR as of March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The net dollar retention rate for customers on monthly contracts has generally been lower than our overall net dollar retention rate. In addition, as part of our regular review of customer data that includes reviewing customers purchasing our products via resellers so we can properly attribute them as end customers, we may make adjustments that could impact the calculation of net dollar retention rate.
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Our net dollar retention rate was 107% as of September 30, 2024, which was a decrease from 108% as of September 30, 2023 primarily due to lower expansion within existing customers driven by macroeconomic pressures, offset by a favorable foreign currency impact, the addition of Device42 and a slight improvement in our overall churn rate. We expect our net dollar retention rate could fluctuate in future periods due to a number of factors, including, but not limited to, difficult macroeconomic conditions, our expected growth, the level of penetration within our customer base, our ability to upsell and cross-sell products to existing customers, and our ability to retain our customers.
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Our net dollar retention rate was 105% as of March 31, 2025, which was a decrease from 106% as of March 31, 2024 primarily due to lower expansion within existing customers driven by macroeconomic pressures, offset by the addition of Device42 and a slight improvement in our overall churn rate. We expect our net dollar retention rate could fluctuate in future periods due to a number of factors, including, but not limited to, difficult macroeconomic conditions, our expected growth, the level of penetration within our customer base, our ability to upsell and cross-sell products to existing customers, and our ability to retain our customers.
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We define non-GAAP income from operations as GAAP loss from operations, excluding stock-based compensation expense, employer payroll taxes on employee stock transactions, and amortization of acquired intangibles.
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We define non-GAAP income from operations as GAAP loss from operations, excluding stock-based compensation expense, employer payroll taxes on employee stock transactions, amortization of acquired intangibles, and restructuring charges.
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We define non-GAAP net income as GAAP net loss, excluding stock-based compensation expense, employer payroll taxes on employee stock transactions, and amortization of acquired intangibles, net of their related tax effects.
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We define non-GAAP net income as GAAP net loss, excluding stock-based compensation expense, employer payroll taxes on employee stock transactions, restructuring charges, and amortization of acquired intangibles, and income tax adjustments.
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Substantially all of our revenue is derived from subscriptions, which is comprised of fees paid by customers for accessing our cloud-based software products during the term of the subscription. Subscription revenue is recognized ratably over the contract term beginning on the commencement date of each subscription, which is the date that the cloud-based software is made available to customers. The Company also sells software licenses with associated maintenance and professional services based on product offerings introduced upon the acquisition of Device42 in the quarter ended June 30, 2024. Software license revenue is recognized upon making the software available to the customer and maintenance revenue is recognized as support and updates are provided, which is generally ratably over the contract term.
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Substantially all of our revenue is derived from subscriptions, which is comprised of fees paid by customers for accessing our cloud-based software products during the term of the subscription. Subscription revenue is recognized ratably over the contract term beginning on the commencement date of each subscription, which is the date that the cloud-based software is made available to customers. We also sell software licenses with associated maintenance and professional services based on product offerings introduced upon the acquisition of D42 Parent, Inc. in June 2024. Software license revenue is recognized upon making the software available to the customer and maintenance revenue is recognized as support and updates are provided, which is generally ratably over the contract term.
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Sales and Marketing. Sales and marketing expense consists primarily of personnel-related costs, including salaries, related benefits, and stock-based compensation expense for our sales personnel and certain executives, sales commissions for our sales force and reseller commissions for our channel sales partners, as well as costs associated with marketing activities, travel and entertainment costs, software license fees, and rental of office premises. Sales commissions that are considered incremental costs incurred to obtain contracts with customers are deferred and amortized over the expected benefit period of three years. Marketing activities include online lead generation, advertising, and promotional events.
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Sales and Marketing. Sales and marketing expense consists primarily of personnel-related costs, including salaries, related benefits, and stock-based compensation expense for our sales personnel and certain executives, sales commissions for our sales force and reseller commissions for our channel sales partners, as well as costs associated with marketing activities, travel and entertainment costs, software license fees, and rental of office premises. Sales commissions that are considered incremental costs incurred to obtain contracts with customers are deferred and amortized over the benefit period of three years. Marketing activities include online lead generation, advertising, and promotional events.
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General and Administrative. General and administrative expense consists primarily of personnel-related costs, including salaries, related benefits, and stock-based compensation expense for certain executives and other general and administrative personnel, third-party professional services fees, including consulting, legal, audit, and accounting services, travel and entertainment costs, accounting, legal, human resources, and recruiting personnel, costs of director and officer insurance, costs associated with acquisitions of businesses, software license fees, and rental of office premises.
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General and Administrative. General and administrative expense consists primarily of personnel-related costs, including salaries, related benefits, and stock-based compensation expense for certain executives and other general and administrative personnel, third-party professional services fees, costs of director and officer insurance, and costs associated with acquisitions of businesses, software license fees, and rental of office premises.
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As a publicly traded company, we expect to increase personnel-related and professional service expenses associated with ongoing compliance and reporting obligations and costs to broaden our IT related infrastructure. Our general and administrative expenses are expected to continue to increase in dollar amount for the foreseeable future, however, we expect it to decline as a percentage of revenue over the longer term. This percentage may fluctuate from period to period depending upon the timing and amount of our general and administrative expenses.
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We expect to increase personnel-related and professional service expenses associated with ongoing compliance and reporting obligations and costs to broaden our IT related infrastructure. Our general and administrative expenses are expected to continue to increase in dollar amount for the foreseeable future, however, we expect it to decline as a percentage of revenue over the longer term. This percentage may fluctuate from period to period depending upon the timing and amount of our general and administrative expenses.
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The following table sets forth our consolidated statements of operations data for the periods presented (in thousands):
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The following table sets forth our condensed consolidated statements of operations data for the periods presented (in thousands):
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(1) Stock-based compensation expense recorded to research and development in the consolidated statements of operations excludes amounts that were capitalized for internal-use software.
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(1) Stock-based compensation expense recorded to research and development in the condensed consolidated statements of operations excludes amounts that were capitalized for internal-use software.
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(2) General and administrative expense includes stock-based compensation associated with RSUs and PRSUs granted to our Executive Chairman of $12.1 million and $14.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively, and $38.3 million and $41.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
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(2) General and administrative expense includes stock-based compensation associated with RSUs and PRSUs granted to our Executive Chairman of $11.3 million and $13.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
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Revenue increased by $33.0 million, or 22%, for the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023. Of the total increasein revenue, approximately $9.7 million was attributable to revenue from existing customers as of September 30, 2023, net of contraction and churn, and approximately $23.3 million was attributable to revenue from new customers acquired during the twelve months ended September 30, 2024, net of contraction and churn, as well as all revenue from Device42 during the quarter. Our net dollar retention rate of 107% as of September 30, 2024 reflects the expansion within existing customers and the sale of additional products to these customers. Our net dollar retention rate decreased from 108% as of September 30, 2023 primarily due to lower expansion within existing customers driven by macroeconomic pressures, offset by a favorable foreign currency impact, the addition of Device42 and a slight improvement in our overall churn rate. The majority of our revenue continues to be generated from subscription services.
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Revenue increased by $31.1 million, or 19%, for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. Of the total increase in revenue, approximately $8.4 million was attributable to revenue from existing customers as of March 31, 2024, net of contraction and churn, and approximately $22.7 million was attributable to revenue from new customers acquired during the twelve months ended March 31, 2025, net of contraction and churn, as well as all revenue from Device42 during the quarter. Our net dollar retention rate of 105% as of March 31, 2025 reflects the expansion within existing customers and the sale of additional products to these customers. Our net dollar retention rate decreased from 106% as of March 31, 2024 primarily due to lower expansion within existing customers driven by macroeconomic pressures, offset by the addition of Device42 and a slight improvement in our overall churn rate. The majority of our revenue continues to be generated from subscription services.
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Cost of revenue increased by $3.5 million, or 13%, for the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023. This was primarily due to increases of $1.4 million in amortization of acquired developed technologies and internally capitalized software, $0.9 million in personnel-related costs, $0.8 million in third-party hosting costs and $0.5 million in professional and consulting expenses. Our gross margin increased to 84% for the three months ended September 30, 2024 from 83% in the same period of the prior year, as we increased our revenue and continue to realize benefits from economies of scale primarily related to our third-party hosting costs.
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Cost of revenue increased by $4.0 million, or 15%, for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. This was primarily due to increases of $1.2 million in amortization of acquired developed technologies, $1.1 million in personnel-related costs primarily due to annual compensation adjustments and changes in retirement benefit obligations for employees in India, $1.0 million in subscription and third-party hosting fees as we increase our capacity to serve our increasing customer base. Our gross margin increased to 85% for the three months ended March 31, 2025 from 84% in the same period of the prior year, as we increased our revenue and continue to realize benefits from economies of scale primarily related to our third-party hosting costs.
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The $29.6 million, or 18%, increase in our operating expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023, was primarily driven by increases in personnel-related costs due to annual compensation adjustments, stock-based compensation expense, amortization of developed technologies, advertisement, marketing and branding costs, and professional services fees.
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The $5.4 million or 3%, increase in our operating expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 was primarily driven by changes in personnel and related stock-based compensation costs, as well as higher amortization of developed technologies, offset by lower advertisement, marketing and branding costs.
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Research and development expense increased by $13.0 million, or 37%, for the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023, primarily driven by an increase of $7.1 million in personnel-related costs, $3.8 million in stock-based compensation expense, $0.7 million in professional services and subscription costs, and $0.5 million in web-hosting charges.
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Research and development expense increased by $5.3 million, or 15%, for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024, primarily driven by an increase of $3.8 million in personnel-related costs and $0.5 million in stock-based compensation expense. The increase in personnel-related costs was mainly driven by the acquisition of D42 Parent, Inc., annual compensation adjustments, changes in retirement benefit obligations for employees in India and higher variable incentive compensation, partially offset by higher capitalization of internally developed software costs.
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Sales and marketing expense increased by $10.6 million, or 12%, for the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023. This was primarily driven by increases of $8.5 million in personnel-related costs, $2.3 million in amortization of acquired intangible assets, $1.2 million in advertisement, marketing and branding costs, $0.6 million in reseller commissions, and $0.5 million in travel expenses, partially offset by a decrease of $3.5 million in stock-based compensation expense.
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Sales and marketing expense decreased by $5.5 million, or 6%, for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. This was primarily driven by decreases of $3.9 million in stock-based compensation expense primarily impacted by the restructuring and transition of our President to CEO mid 2024, $2.5 million in advertisement, marketing and branding costs, $1.1 million in personnel-related costs and $0.8 million in travel expenses; partially offset by an increase of $2.1 million in amortization of acquired intangible assets related to the acquisition of D42 Parent, Inc.. The decrease in personnel-related costs was primarily driven by reduced headcount following the restructuring, offset by annual compensation adjustments and changes in retirement benefit obligations for employees in India.
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Interest income increased by $7.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023, primarily due to an increase in interest rates and increased interest income earned on larger balances maintained in our marketable securities portfolios.
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Interest income decreased by $2.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024, primarily due to lower balances maintained in our marketable securities portfolios.
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Other income (expense), net changed by $2.8 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023, primarily due to a favorable impact from changes in foreign exchange rates in British Pound and euro against the U.S. dollar.
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Other income (expense), net changed by $2.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024, primarily due to changes in foreign exchange rates in British Pound, Indian Rupee, and euro against the U.S. dollar.
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We are subject to federal and state income taxes in the United States and taxes in foreign jurisdictions. For the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, we recorded a provision for income taxes of $5.0 million and $3.3 million on loss before taxes of $24.9 million and $27.7 million, respectively. The increase in provision for income taxes during the three months ended September 30, 2024, was primarily due to an increase in profit before tax in certain foreign jurisdictions.
Current wording
We are subject to federal and state income taxes in the United States and taxes in foreign jurisdictions. For the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, we recorded a provision for income taxes of $3.9 million and $4.0 million on income (loss) before taxes of $2.6 million and $(19.4) million, respectively.
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Since inception, we have funded our operations primarily with financing through the issuance of redeemable convertible preferred and common stock to investors and through our IPO in September 2021. As of September 30, 2024, we had an accumulated deficit of $3.7 billion. Our operating activities resulted in cash inflows of $119.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024. In November 2024, we committed to a restructuring plan that is expected to incur charges in the fourth quarter of 2024, consisting primarily of cash expenditures for separation-related payments, employee benefits and related costs. See Note 14—Subsequent Events.
Current wording
As of March 31, 2025, we had an accumulated deficit of $3.7 billion. Our operating activities resulted in cash inflows of $58.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025.
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We believe our existing cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, will be sufficient to meet our working capital and capital expenditure needs for at least the next 12 months. We believe we will meet longer-term expected future cash requirements and obligations through a combination of our existing cash and cash equivalents balances, cash flow from operations, and issuances of equity securities or debt offerings. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including the rate of our revenue growth, the timing and extent of spending on research and development efforts, the expansion of sales and marketing activities, the introduction of new and enhanced product offerings, and other business initiatives and the continuing market adoption of our products. We may in the future enter into arrangements to acquire or invest in complementary businesses, services, and technologies, including intellectual property rights. We may be required to seek additional equity or debt financing in connection with such activities. If we raise additional funds through the incurrence of indebtedness, such indebtedness may have rights that are senior to holders of our equity securities and could contain covenants that restrict our operational flexibility. Any additional equity or convertible debt financing may be dilutive to stockholders. In the event that additional financing is required from outside sources, we may not be able to raise such financing on terms acceptable to us or at all.
Current wording
We believe our existing sources of liquidity will be sufficient to meet our working capital and capital expenditure needs for at least the next 12 months. We believe we will meet longer-term expected future cash requirements and obligations through a combination of our existing cash available balances, cash flow from operations, and issuances of equity securities or debt offerings, as needed. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including the rate of our revenue growth, the timing and extent of spending on research and development efforts, the expansion of sales and marketing activities, the introduction of new and enhanced product offerings, and other business initiatives and the continuing market adoption of our products. We may in the future enter into arrangements to acquire or invest in complementary businesses, services, and technologies, including intellectual property rights. We may be required to seek additional equity or debt financing in connection with such activities. If we raise additional funds through the incurrence of indebtedness, such indebtedness may have rights that are senior to holders of our equity securities and could contain covenants that restrict our operational flexibility. Any additional equity or convertible debt financing may be dilutive to stockholders. In the event that additional financing is required from outside sources, we may not be able to raise such financing on terms acceptable to us or at all.
Previous wording
Net cash provided by operating activities of $119.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 reflects our net loss of $73.5 million, adjusted for non-cash items such as stock-based compensation of $166.3 million, amortization of deferred contract acquisition costs of $20.7 million, depreciation and amortization of $13.1 million, and non-cash lease expense of $6.6 million; offset by 13.8 million from changes in deferred income taxes and $13.0 million from discount amortization of marketable securities. Additionally, net cash inflows from changes in operating assets and liabilities were $12.6 million. The net cash inflows from changes in operating assets and liabilities were due to a decrease of $6.6 million in accounts receivable and increases in operating liabilities of $27.0 million in deferred revenue, $10.2 million in accrued and other liabilities and $3.1 million in accounts payable; offset by increases in operating assets of $24.7 million in deferred contract acquisition costs and $7.7 million in prepaid expenses and other assets; and a decrease of $1.8 million in operating lease liabilities.
Current wording
Net cash provided by operating activities of $58.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 reflects our net loss of $1.3 million, adjusted for non-cash items such as stock-based compensation of $51.7 million, amortization of deferred contract acquisition costs of $7.6 million, depreciation and amortization of $6.4 million, and non-cash lease expense of $2.3 million; offset by $1.9 million from discount amortization of marketable securities and 0.5 million from changes in deferred income taxes. Additionally, net cash outflows from changes in operating assets and liabilities were $6.3 million. The net cash outflows from changes in operating assets and liabilities were due to an increase of $15.3 million in prepaid expenses and other assets, an increase of $8.7 million in deferred contract acquisition costs; offset by a decrease of $10.6 million in accounts receivable and an increase of $7.0 million in deferred revenue.
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Net cash provided by operating activities of $55.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 reflects our net loss of $109.4 million, adjusted for non-cash items such as stock-based compensation of $160.1 million, amortization of deferred contract acquisition costs of $17.6 million, depreciation and amortization of $9.1 million and non-cash lease expense of $5.7 million; offset by $12.1 million from discount amortization of marketable securities and net cash outflows of $15.9 million from changes in operating assets and liabilities. The net cash outflows from changes in operating assets and liabilities were due to increases in operating assets of $19.1 million in deferred contract acquisition costs, $11.8 million in prepaid expenses and other assets, $10.0 million in accounts receivable; and a decrease in operating liabilities of $9.1 million in lease liabilities, $3.2 million in accrued and other liabilities, and $3.2 million in accounts payable; offset by an increase in operating liabilities of $40.5 million in deferred revenue.
Current wording
Net cash provided by operating activities of $40.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 reflects our net loss of $23.3 million, adjusted for non-cash items such as stock-based compensation of $52.4 million, amortization of deferred contract acquisition costs of $6.7 million, net cash inflows of $4.1 million from changes in operating assets and liabilities, depreciation and amortization of $3.0 million and non-cash lease expense of $2.0 million; offset by $4.6 million from discount amortization of marketable securities. The net cash inflows from changes in operating assets and liabilities were due to a decrease in operating assets of $12.9 million in accounts receivable; offset by increases in operating assets of $7.1 million in deferred contract acquisition costs and $6.6 million in prepaid expenses and other assets; and an increase in operating liabilities of $9.5 million in deferred revenue, offset by decreases in operating lease liabilities of $2.8 million and $2.0 million in accounts payable.
Previous wording
Net cash provided by investing activities of $146.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 consisted of $152.3 million in proceeds from maturities and sales, net of purchases of marketable securities; offset by $5.1 million in capitalized internal-use software and $1.0 million in purchases of property and equipment.
Current wording
Net cash provided by investing activities of $46.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 consisted of $50.3 million in maturities and redemptions of marketable securities, net of purchases; offset by $2.8 million in capitalized internal-use software and $1.3 million in purchases of property and equipment.
Previous wording
Net cash used in investing activities of $170.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 consisted of $213.9 million cash paid for the business combination, net of cash acquired, $4.1 million in purchases of property and equipment, $3.6 million in capitalized internal-use software, offset by $51.2 million in maturities and sales of marketable securities, net of purchases.
Current wording
Net cash used in investing activities of $37.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 consisted of $35.9 million in purchases of marketable securities, net of proceeds from maturities and sales, $1.2 million in capitalized internal-use software and $0.7 million in purchases of property and equipment.
Previous wording
Net cash used in financing activities of $46.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 consisted of $49.6 million in payment of withholding taxes on net share settlement of equity awards; offset by $3.6 million of proceeds from the issuance of common stock under our employee stock purchase plan, net of taxes withheld.
Current wording
Net cash used in financing activities of $130.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 consisted of $113.6 million cash paid to repurchase shares of our common stock and $16.7 million in payment of withholding taxes on net share settlement of equity awards.
Previous wording
Net cash used in financing activities of $47.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 consisted of $51.8 million in payment of withholding taxes on net share settlement of equity awards; offset by $4.3 million of proceeds from the issuance of common stock under our employee stock purchase plan, net of taxes withheld.
Current wording
Net cash used in financing activities of $23.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 consisted of $23.0 million in payment of withholding taxes on net share settlement of equity awards
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There have been no changes to our critical accounting policies and estimates during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 as compared to those disclosed in our "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" set forth in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 16, 2024, except for the addition of the following revenue recognition policy for the business acquired in June 2024:
Current wording
There have been no changes to our critical accounting policies and estimates during the three months ended March 31, 2025 as compared to those disclosed in our "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" set forth in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 20, 2025.
Previous wording
See Note 1—Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies to our condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for more information.
Current wording
See Note 1—Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies to our condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for more information.
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Interest and Other Income (Expense), Net
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Revenue increased by $89.5 million, or 21%, for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023. Of the total increase in revenue, approximately $46.2 million was attributable to revenue from existing customers as of September 30, 2023, net of contraction and churn, and approximately $43.3 million was attributable to revenue from new customers acquired during the twelve months ended September 30, 2024, net of contraction and churn, as well as all revenue from Device42 since the date of the acquisition. Our net dollar retention rate of 107% as of September 30, 2024 reflects the expansion within existing customers and the sale of additional products to these customers. The substantial majority of our revenue continues to be generated from subscription services.
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Provision for (Benefit from) Income Taxes