Sprinklr, Inc.
For the period ended Jan 31, 2025. Filed Mar 21, 2025.
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
- Organization and Description of Business
Description of Business
Founded in 2009, Sprinklr, Inc. (“Sprinklr” or the “Company”) provides enterprise cloud software products that enable organizations to do marketing, advertising, research, care, sales and engagement across modern channels including social, messaging, chat and text through its Unified Customer Experience Management software platform.
The Company was incorporated in Delaware in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, USA with 20 operating subsidiaries globally.
- Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation
The consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”) and include the consolidated accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting periods. Significant estimates and assumptions made in the accompanying consolidated financial statements include, but are not limited to, revenue recognition, fair value assumptions for stock-based compensation, software costs eligible for capitalization and the allowance on the Company’s accounts receivable. The Company evaluates its estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis using historical experience and on assumptions that it believes are reasonable and adjusts those estimates and assumptions when facts and circumstances dictate. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates and assumptions.
Segments
The Company operates inone operating segment because the Company’s offerings operate on its single Customer Experience Management Platform, the Company’s products are deployed in a similar way, and the Company’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”), the Chief Executive Officer, evaluates the Company’s financial information and assesses the performance of the Company on a consolidated basis. For additional segment information, see Note 15, “Segment and Geographic Information.”
Foreign Currency
The functional currency of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries is generally their respective local currency. Assets and liabilities denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rates in effect at the balance sheet dates, with the resulting translation adjustments recorded to a separate component of accumulated other comprehensive loss. Income and expense accounts are translated at average exchange rates during the year. Foreign currency remeasurement and transaction gains and losses are recorded in other income (expense), net, in the consolidated statements of operations. The Company recognized net foreign currency transaction losses of $1.7 million, $3.6 million and $4.7 million in the fiscal years ended January 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively. As of January 31, 2025 and 2024, the cumulative translation adjustment within accumulated other comprehensive loss was $7.0 million and $4.2 million, respectively.
Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Restricted Cash
The Company considers all highly liquid investments purchased with a remaining maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents.
The following table reconciles cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash from the consolidated balance sheets to amounts reported in the consolidated statements of cash flows:
| January 31, | ||
|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 |
| Cash and cash equivalents | $145,270 | $164,024 |
| Restricted cash included in prepaid expenses and other current assets(1) | 1,705 | 1,494 |
| Restricted cash included in other non-current assets(2) | 6,558 | 6,911 |
| Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash | $153,533 | $172,429 |
(1)At January 31, 2025, consisted of collateral for letters of credit issued in lieu of deposits on certain leases and customer contracts. At January 31, 2024, consisted primarily of cash that is restricted and is associated with certain credit card programs, which were closed in the second quarter of fiscal year 2025.
(2)Consists primarily of collateral for letters of credit issued in lieu of deposits on certain leases and customer contracts.
Marketable Securities
The Company's marketable securities consist of U.S. Treasury securities, corporate and municipal bonds, money market funds, agency securities, commercial paper, certificates of deposit, and time deposits with maturity dates of more than three months from the date of purchase. The Company determines the appropriate classification of marketable securities at the time of purchase and reevaluates such designation at each balance sheet date. The Company classifies and accounts for its marketable securities as available-for-sale securities as the Company may sell these securities at any time for use in the current operation or for other purposes, even prior to maturity. As a result, the Company classifies marketable securities as current assets in the consolidated balance sheets.
All marketable securities are recorded at their estimated fair values. Premiums and discounts are amortized or accreted over the life of the related available-for-sale security as an adjustment to yield. Interest income is recognized when earned. Unrealized gains and losses on these marketable securities are reported as a separate component of accumulated other comprehensive loss on the consolidated balance sheets until realized. Realized gains and losses are determined based on the specific identification method and are reported in other income, net in the consolidated statements of operations.
Available-for-sale debt securities are considered impaired if the fair value of the investment is less than amortized cost. If it is more likely than not that the Company will have to sell the security before recovery of its amortized cost basis, the security is written down to its fair value and the difference is recognized in operating loss. If the Company deems it is not likely to sell such security before recovery of its amortized cost basis, the Company bifurcates the impairment into credit-related and non-credit-related components. In evaluating whether a credit-related loss exists, the Company considers a variety of factors including: (i) the extent to which the fair value is less than the amortized cost basis, (ii) adverse conditions specifically related to the issuer of a security, an industry or geographic area, (iii) the failure of the issuer of the security to make scheduled interest or principal payments and (iv) any changes to the rating of the security by a rating agency. Any portion of the loss attributable to credit-related components is recorded within the provision for credit losses in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations while any non-credit related components are reflected within accumulated other comprehensive loss on the consolidated balance sheets, net of applicable taxes. As of January 31, 2025 and 2024, there have been no securities with an unrealized loss position that the Company would have to sell before recovery of its amortized cost basis, and therefore the Company has not bifurcated the impairment.
Fair Values Measurement
The Company considers the carrying amounts of financial instruments, including cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued expenses to approximate their fair values because of their relatively short maturities.
The Company measures certain financial assets at fair value based upon the exit price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants, as determined by either the principal market or the most advantageous market. Inputs used in the valuation techniques to derive fair values are classified based on a three-level hierarchy, as follows:
Level 1 — Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
Level 2 — Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quoted prices in markets with insufficient volume or infrequent transactions (less active markets); or model-derived valuations in which all significant inputs are observable or can be derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.
Level 3 — Unobservable inputs to the valuation methodology that are significant to the measurement of fair value of assets or liabilities.
The Company evaluates these inputs and recognizes transfers between levels, if any, at the balance sheet date. The Company has not elected the fair value measurement option for assets not required to be measured at fair value on a recurring basis.
Accounts Receivable and Allowance
Accounts receivable are recorded at invoiced amounts, net of allowance, if applicable, and are unsecured and do not bear interest.
The allowance account is based on the probability of future collection under the current expect credited loss (“CECL”) impairment model under ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326), Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Assets, which was adopted by the Company on January 31, 2023, with an effective date of February 1, 2022, as discussed below within Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements. Under the CECL impairment model, the Company’s allowance consists of general and specific reserves. The Company determines its allowance for the general reserve by applying a loss-rate method based on an aging schedule using the Company’s historical loss rate. The specific reserves are determined by considering customers’ specific credit risk, macroeconomic trends and any other factors that could impact the collectability of receivables. The adequacy of the allowance is evaluated on a regular basis. Account balances are written off after all means of collection are exhausted and the balance is deemed uncollectible. Subsequent recoveries are credited to the allowance. Changes in the allowance are recorded in sales and marketing expense in the period incurred.
Changes in the allowance account for the periods presented were as follows:
| Year Ended January 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
| Allowance, beginning of period | $5,267 | $3,156 | $2,727 |
| Write-offs of uncollectible accounts, net | (8,837) | (3,109) | (2,590) |
| Provision for expected credit losses | 11,629 | 5,220 | 3,780 |
| Adjustment to retained earnings for CECL adoption | — | — | (761) |
| Allowance, end of period | $8,059 | $5,267 | $3,156 |
Property and Equipment
Property and equipment, including leasehold improvements, are stated at cost, less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Depreciation of property and equipment is computed using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the asset, which is generallytwo tothree years. Amortization of leasehold improvements is computed using a straight-line method over the shorter of the lease term or the estimated useful life of the improvement. Depreciation and amortization begins when the asset is ready for its intended use. The cost of maintenance and repairs that do not improve or extend the lives of the respective assets is expensed as incurred.
The Company capitalizes qualifying internally-developed software costs incurred in connection with the Company’s internal-use software platform. These capitalized costs are related to the cloud-based software platform that the Company hosts, which is accessed by its clients on a subscription basis. Costs are capitalized during the application development stage, provided that management with the relevant authority authorizes and commits to the funding of the software project, it is probable the project will be completed, the software will be used to perform the functions intended and certain functional and quality standards have been met. Capitalized internal-use software costs are amortized on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful life, which is generally three years. Costs incurred for specific upgrades and enhancements when it is probable the expenditures will result in additional functionality are capitalized and amortized over the estimated useful life of the enhancements. Costs related to preliminary project activities and post-implementation operations activities, including training and maintenance, are expensed as incurred.
Business Combinations
When the Company acquires businesses, it allocates the purchase price to tangible assets, liabilities and identifiable intangible assets acquired with any residual purchase price recorded as goodwill. The allocation of the purchase price requires management to make significant estimates in determining the fair values of assets acquired and liabilities assumed, particularly with respect to intangible assets at the acquisition date, deferred revenue and contingent consideration, where applicable. These estimates can include, but are not limited to, historical experience and information obtained from the management of the acquired companies, the cash flows that an asset is expected to generate in the future, the weighted-average cost of capital and the cost savings expected to be derived from acquiring an asset. These estimates are inherently uncertain and unpredictable and unanticipated events and circumstances may occur, which could affect the accuracy or validity of such estimates.
Goodwill
Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price over the fair value of the net assets acquired in connection with business combinations accounted for using the purchase method of accounting. Goodwill is not amortized, but rather is tested for impairment annually and more frequently upon the occurrence of certain events. The Company performs its annual impairment test of goodwill in the fourth quarter of each fiscal year, using November 1 carrying values, or whenever events or circumstances indicate that goodwill may not be recoverable. Triggering events that may indicate impairment include, but are not limited to, a significant adverse change in customer demand or business climate or a significant decrease in expected cash flows.
In performing its impairment test, the Company first assesses qualitative factors to determine whether it is more-likely-than-not that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than its carrying value. In performing the qualitative assessment, the Company reviews factors such as financial performance, macroeconomic conditions, industry and market considerations. If the Company elects this option and believes, as a result of the qualitative assessment, that it is more-likely-than-not that the carrying value of the reporting unit exceeds the fair value, the quantitative impairment test is required; otherwise, no further testing is required.
Alternatively, the Company may elect to bypass the qualitative assessment and perform the quantitative impairment test instead, or if the Company reasonably determines that it is more-likely-than-not that the fair value is less than the carrying value, the Company performs its annual, or interim, goodwill impairment test by comparing the fair value of the reporting unit with the carrying amount. The Company will recognize an impairment for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the reporting unit's fair value.
The Company didnot record any goodwill impairment charges in the years ended January 31, 2025, 2024 or 2023.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
The Company continually monitors events and changes in circumstances that could indicate that the carrying amounts of its long-lived assets, including property, equipment, capitalized internal-use software and other assets, including identifiable definite-lived intangible assets, may not be recoverable. When such events or changes in circumstances occur, the Company assesses the recoverability of long-lived assets by determining whether the carrying value of such assets will be recovered through their undiscounted expected future cash flow. If the future undiscounted cash flow is less than the carrying amount of these assets, the Company recognizes an impairment loss based on the excess of the carrying amount over the fair value of the assets. If the useful life is shorter than originally estimated, the Company amortizes the remaining carrying value over the new shorter life.
Leases
Under Accounting Standard Update (“ASU”) 2016-02, Leases (“Topic 842”), the Company determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception, and leases are classified at commencement as either operating or finance leases. As of January 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company did not have any finance leases.
Right-of-use (“ROU”) assets and lease liabilities are recognized at commencement based on the present value of the minimum lease payments over the lease term. The Company utilizes certain practical expedients and policy elections available under Topic 842, including (i) leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recognized on the balance sheet, (ii) lease components are not separated from non-lease components for all asset classes, and (iii) non-lease components that are not fixed are expensed as incurred as variable lease costs. The Company uses the incremental borrowing rate based on information available at the commencement date in determining the present value of future lease payments. The rate is an estimate of the collateralized borrowing rate the Company would incur on future lease payments over a similar term.
The Company leases facilities under non-cancelable operating lease agreements. Certain of the operating lease agreements contain rent concessions and rent escalations that are included in the present value calculation of minimum lease payments. The lease term begins on the date the Company has the right to use the leased property. Lease terms may include options to extend or terminate the lease, and these options are included in the ROU asset and lease liability when it is reasonably certain that the option will be exercised. The Company's lease agreements do not contain residual value guarantees or covenants.
Concentration of Risk and Significant Customers
The Company has no significant off-balance sheet risks related to foreign currency exchange contracts, option contracts or other foreign currency hedging arrangements. The Company’s financial instruments that are potentially subject to credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents and accounts receivable. Although the Company deposits its cash with multiple financial institutions, its deposits generally exceed federally insured limits.
To manage credit risk related to accounts receivable, the Company maintains an allowance for credit losses. The allowance is determined by applying a loss-rate method based on an aging schedule using the Company’s historical loss rate. The Company also considers reasonable and supportable current and forecasted information in determining its estimated loss rates, such as external forecasts, macroeconomic trends, or other factors, including customers’ credit risk and historical loss experience. The Company’s accounts receivable are derived from invoiced customers located primarily in North America and Europe.
No single customer accounted for more than 10% of total revenue during the years ended January 31, 2025, 2024 or 2023. In addition, no single customer accounted for more than 10% of total accounts receivable as of January 31, 2025 or 2024.
In addition, the Company relies upon third-party hosted infrastructure partners globally to serve customers and operate certain aspects of its services, such as environments for development testing, training, sales demonstrations, and production usage. Given this, any disruption of or interference at the Company’s hosted infrastructure partners would impact the Company’s operations and could adversely impact its business.
Revenue Recognition
The Company accounts for revenue in accordance with ASU No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASC 606”). For further discussion of the Company’s accounting policies related to revenue see Note 3, Revenue Recognition.
Costs of Revenue
Costs of subscription revenue and professional services revenue is expensed as incurred.
Costs of subscription revenue consists primarily of expenses related to hosting the Company’s software platform, including data center operations costs and personnel and related expenses directly associated with delivering the Company’s cloud infrastructure, the costs associated with purchasing third-party data that is utilized in providing elements of the platform and costs to provide platform support to the Company’s customers, including personnel and related expenses. These costs include salaries, benefits, bonuses and stock-based compensation, as well as allocated overhead.
Costs of professional services consists primarily of personnel and related expenses directly associated with the Company’s professional services organization. These costs include salaries, benefits, bonuses and stock-based compensation, as well as allocated overhead, together with the costs of subcontracted third-party professional services vendors.
Overhead associated with facilities and depreciation is allocated to cost of revenue based on relative headcount in those departments.
Research and Development
Research and development expenses consist primarily of costs relating to the maintenance, continued development and enhancement of the Company’s cloud-based software platform and include personnel-related expenses and stock-based compensation for our research and development organization, professional fees, travel expenses and allocated overhead expenses, including facilities costs. Research and development expenses are expensed as incurred, except for internal-use software development costs that qualify for capitalization.
Advertising Costs
Advertising costs include costs incurred to promote the Company’s subscription and professional services. These costs are expensed as incurred and were $4.7 million, $4.1 million and $2.9 million in the years ended January 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Warranties
The Company’s cloud-based software platform is generally warranted to perform materially in accordance with the Company’s online documentation and the terms of the agreement with a customer, under normal use and circumstances. Additionally, the Company’s contracts generally include provisions for indemnifying customers against liabilities if use of its software platform infringe a third party’s intellectual property rights, and the Company may also incur liabilities if it breaches the security, privacy and/or confidentiality obligations in its contracts. To date, the Company has not incurred any material costs, and it has not accrued any liabilities in the accompanying consolidated financial statements as of January 31, 2025 or 2024 as a result of these obligations.
Stock-Based Compensation
The Company accounts for stock-based compensation as an expense in the statements of operations based on the awards’ grant date fair values.
Options
The Company estimates the fair value of service-based options granted using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. Stock options that included performance and market conditions are valued using the Monte-Carlo simulation model.
Prior to becoming a public company, the Company’s board of directors determined the fair value of its common stock using a number of objective and subjective factors, as discussed in Note 11, Stock-based Compensation, with input from management and valuations performed by an independent third-party valuation specialist. Subsequent to the Initial Public Offering (“IPO”), the Company determines the fair value using the closing price, on the date of grant, of its Class A common stock, which is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”).
The fair value of stock-based payments is recognized as compensation expense, net of expected forfeitures, over the requisite service period, which is generally the vesting period. The fair value of stock-based payments for options that include performance and market conditions is recognized as compensation expense over the requisite service period as achievement of the performance objective becomes probable.
Restricted Stock Units
Prior to the IPO, the Company estimated fair value of its restricted stock units (“RSUs”) based on the fair value of the underlying common stock, which was estimated similarly to its options as discussed above. Subsequent to the IPO, the Company determines the fair value using the closing price, on the date of grant, of its Class A common stock, which is publicly traded on the NYSE. Stock-based compensation for RSUs is recognized over the requisite service period, which is generally the vesting period, net of expected forfeitures.
Performance-Based Stock Units
The Company issued certain performance-based stock units (“PSUs”) that vest upon the satisfaction of time-based service, performance-based and market conditions. For the units that vest upon the achievement of certain performance and market conditions, the Company estimated the grant date fair value using a Monte Carlo simulation. Refer to Note 11, Stock-Based Compensation, for further detail on stock-based compensation recognition for the PSUs.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
The fair value of the share purchase rights under the Company’s 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”) is measured based on the grant date fair value using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. Refer to Note 11, Stock-Based Compensation, for further detail on assumptions used in determining the grant date fair value and stock-based compensation recognition for the Company’s ESPP grants.
Income Taxes
The provision for income taxes is computed using the asset and liability method, under which deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the expected future tax consequences of temporary differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities, and for operating losses and tax credit carryforwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using the currently enacted tax rates that apply to taxable income in effect for the years in which those tax assets are expected to be realized or settled.
Management makes estimates, assumptions and judgements to determine the Company’s provision for or benefit from income taxes, deferred tax assets and liabilities and any valuation allowances recorded against the Company’s deferred tax assets. The Company also assesses the likelihood that its deferred tax assets will be recovered from future taxable income and, to the extent that the Company believes that recovery is not more likely than not, the Company will establish a valuation allowance.
Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
In February 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), and additional changes, modifications, clarifications or interpretations related to this guidance thereafter (“ASU 2016-02”). ASU 2016-02 requires a reporting entity to recognize ROU assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet for operating leases to increase transparency and comparability. The Company adopted this standard on February 1, 2022 and elected the package of transition practical expedients which allowed the Company to carry forward prior conclusions related to: (i) whether any expired or existing contracts are or contain leases, (ii) the classification for any expired or existing leases and (iii) initial direct costs for existing leases. Additionally, the Company elected the practical expedient of not separating lease components from non-lease components for all asset classes. The Company also made an accounting policy election to not record ROU assets or lease liabilities for leases with an initial term of 12 months or less and will recognize payments for such leases in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, with subsequent amendments, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments (“ASU 2016-03”). The Company adopted ASU 2016-03 on January 31, 2023, with an effective date of February 1, 2022, which amended the impairment model by requiring entities to use a forward-looking approach based on expected losses rather than incurred losses to estimate credit losses on certain types of financial instruments, including trade receivables. The Company utilized the modified-retrospective approach at adoption, under which prior period comparable financial information was not adjusted. The adoption did not have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
In November 2023, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2023-07, Segment Reporting - Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures (“ASU 2023-07”), requiring an enhanced disclosure of significant segment expenses on an annual and interim basis. The Company adopted ASU 2023-07 for the annual period ending January 31, 2025 which resulted in additional segment disclosures related to the measure of profitability and assets used by the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) to evaluate the business and allocate resources as well as other items included in the measure of profitability that are provided to the CODM.
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements Pending Adoption
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes - Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (“ASU 2023-09”), requiring enhancements and further transparency to certain income tax disclosures, most notably the tax rate reconciliation and income taxes paid. ASU 2023-09 is effective for the Company’s annual periods beginning fiscal year 2026, on a prospective basis and retrospective application is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact ASU 2023-09 will have on its disclosures within its consolidated financial statements.
In November 2024 and January 2025 the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures: Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses (“ASU 2024-03”) and ASU 2025-01, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures: Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses (“ASU 2025-01), respectively. These ASUs require new financial statement disclosures disaggregating prescribed expense categories within relevant income statement expense captions. ASU 2024-03 and ASU 2025-01 will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. We are currently evaluating the impact of these standards on our disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.
- Revenue Recognition
The Company derives its revenues primarily from (i) subscription revenue, which consists of subscription fees from customers accessing the Company’s cloud-based software platform and applications, as well as related customer support services; and (ii) professional services revenue, which consists of fees associated with providing services that educate and assist the Company’s customers with the configuration and optimization of the Company’s software platform and applications. Professional services revenue also includes managed services fees where the Company’s consultants work as part of its customers’ teams to help leverage the subscription service to execute on their customer experience management goals.
The Company recognizes revenue upon transfer of control of promised products and services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration the Company expects to receive in exchange for those products or services.
The Company determines revenue recognition through the following steps:
Identification of the contract, or contracts, with a customer
Identification of the performance obligations in the contract
Determination of the transaction price
Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract
Recognition of revenue when, or as, the performance obligation is satisfied
Subscription revenue is recognized ratably over the contract term beginning on the commencement date of each contract, which is the date the Company’s service is made available to customers. Subscription revenue includes customer support services, which together with the accessing of the Company’s cloud-based software platform, generally constitute a single performance obligation comprised of a series of distinct services that are substantially the same and have the same pattern of revenue recognition.
Amounts that have been invoiced because they have the unconditional right to consideration are recorded in accounts receivable and in deferred revenue or revenue, depending on whether the revenue recognition criteria have been met, with the majority being invoiced annually in advance of performance obligations. When determining the transaction price of a contract, an adjustment is made if payment from the customer occurs either significantly before or significantly after performance, resulting in a significant financing component. Applying the practical expedient in the FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, the Company does not assess whether a significant financing component exists if the period between when the Company performs its obligations under the contract and when the customer pays is one year or less.
Professional services revenues are recognized as the services are rendered for time and materials contracts or on a proportional performance basis for fixed price contracts. The majority of the Company’s professional services arrangements are fixed price contracts.
The Company enters into arrangements where it provides managed services associated with assisting its customers in publishing advertisements on social media channels. As part of those arrangements, the Company is occasionally required to purchase advertising space from social media channels on behalf of its customers and invoice those costs back to its customer. Revenue from such arrangements is recognized on a net basis, as the Company has determined that it is acting as an agent in these transactions.
Certain of the Company’s arrangements may include certain service level agreements with its customers committing to certain levels of platform uptime and performance and permitting those customers to receive credits in the event that the Company fails to meet those levels. To date, the Company has not incurred or experienced any significant failures to meet defined levels of availability and performance of those agreements and, as a result, the Company has not accrued any liabilities related to such obligations in the accompanying consolidated financial statements as of January 31, 2025 or 2024.
For contracts that are modified for changes in contract specification and requirements, the Company analyzes the modification to determine the accounting treatment of the contract modification as a separate contract, prospectively or through a cumulative catch-up adjustment.
Taxes assessed by a governmental authority that are both imposed on and concurrent with a specific revenue-producing transaction, that are collected by the Company from a customer, are excluded from revenue.
Contracts with Multiple Performance Obligations
The Company executes arrangements that include multiple performance obligations (consisting of subscription and professional services). Additionally, the Company is often party to multiple concurrent contracts or contracts pursuant to which a client may purchase a combination of services. These situations require judgment to determine whether the multiple promises are separate performance obligations. Once the Company has determined the performance obligations, the Company determines the transaction price. The Company allocates the transaction price to each performance obligation on a relative standalone selling price (“SSP”) basis. The SSP is the price at which the Company would sell promised subscription or professional services separately to a customer. The determination of SSP for each distinct performance obligation requires judgement. In the determination of the SSP, the Company may use information that includes contractually stated prices, size of the arrangement, list prices and other observable inputs.
Costs to Obtain Customer Contracts
Costs to obtain customer contracts, including commissions earned, that are considered incremental and recoverable are capitalized and amortized on a straight-line basis over the anticipated period of benefit. The Company determined the period of benefit by taking into consideration the length of its customer contracts, customer relationship period, technology lifecycle, and other factors. The Company currently estimates the period of benefit for which costs are amortized over to befive years. Sales commissions paid for renewals are not commensurate with commissions paid on the initial contract given the substantive difference in commission rates in proportion to their respective contract values. Amortization expense is recorded in sales and marketing expense within the Company’s consolidated statement of operations.
Capitalized costs to obtain customer contracts as of January 31, 2025 were $141.6 million, of which $39.4 million is included in prepaid expenses and other current assets and $102.2 million within other non-current assets.
Capitalized costs to obtain customer contracts as of January 31, 2024 were $135.8 million, of which $42.5 million is included in prepaid expenses and other current assets and $93.4 million within other non-current assets.
During the years ended January 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, the Company amortized $47.7 million, $48.3 million and $44.7 million, respectively, of costs to obtain customer contracts, included in sales and marketing expense.
Deferred Revenue
The Company invoices customers for subscriptions to its products in varying billing cycles, with the majority being invoiced annually in advance of performance obligations, and accounts receivable are recorded when the right to consideration becomes unconditional.
Deferred revenue consists primarily of customer billings made in advance of performance obligations being satisfied and revenue being recognized.
The term between invoicing and when payment is due is not significant, and the Company generally does not provide financing arrangements to customers. Deferred revenue associated with performance obligations that are anticipated to be satisfied, and thus to be recognized as revenue, during the succeeding 12-month period is recorded as current deferred revenue and the remaining portion is recorded as deferred revenue, non-current.
The Company recognized revenue of $364.6 million, $322.1 million and $276.4 million during the years ended January 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively, that was included in the deferred revenue balances at the beginning of the respective periods.
The Company receives payments from customers based on billing schedules as established in its contracts. Contract assets represent amounts for which the Company has recognized revenue in excess of billings pursuant to the revenue recognition guidance. As of January 31, 2025 and 2024, contract assets were $1.9 million and $4.3 million, respectively, and were included in prepaid expenses and other current assets.
Remaining Performance Obligation
Remaining Performance Obligation (“RPO”) represents contracted revenues that had not yet been recognized and includes deferred revenues and amounts that will be invoiced and recognized in future periods. As of January 31, 2025, the Company’s RPO was $987.7 million, approximately $612.5 million of which the Company expects to recognize as revenue over the next 12 months and the remaining balance will be recognized thereafter. As of January 31, 2024, the Company’s remaining RPO was approximately $966.6 million, approximately $587.0 million of which the Company expected to recognize as revenue over the next 12 months.
Disaggregation of Revenues
The Company disaggregates its revenue from contracts with customers by geographic region, as it believes that it best depicts how the nature, amount, timing, and uncertainty of its revenues and cash flows are affected by economic factors. Refer to Note 15, Geographic Information, for revenue by geographic location.
- Marketable Securities
The following is a summary of available-for-sale marketable securities, excluding those securities classified within cash and cash equivalents on the consolidated balance sheets:
| January 31, 2025 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | Amortized Cost | Unrealized Gain | Unrealized Losses | Fair Value |
| Corporate bonds | $106,632 | $48 | $(26) | $106,654 |
| Municipal bonds | 12,752 | — | (7) | 12,745 |
| U.S. government and agency securities | 120,032 | 28 | (52) | 120,008 |
| Certificates of deposit | 34,584 | 27 | — | 34,611 |
| Commercial paper | 64,180 | 16 | (25) | 64,171 |
| Marketable securities | $338,180 | $119 | $(110) | $338,189 |
| January 31, 2024 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | Amortized Cost | Unrealized Gain | Unrealized Losses | Fair Value |
| Corporate bonds | $98,642 | $71 | $(10) | $98,703 |
| Municipal bonds | 982 | 3 | — | 985 |
| U.S. government and agency securities | 185,464 | 140 | (33) | 185,571 |
| Certificates of deposit | 46,496 | 48 | (1) | 46,543 |
| Commercial paper | 166,595 | 155 | (21) | 166,729 |
| Marketable securities | $498,179 | $417 | $(65) | $498,531 |
As of January 31, 2025 and 2024, the maturities of available-for-sale marketable securities did not exceed 12 months. Interest income from cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities was $26.0 million, $30.2 million, and $8.5 million for the years ended January 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023 respectively.
There were 40 and 64 debt securities in an unrealized loss position as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The estimated fair value of these debt securities, for which an allowance for credit losses has not been recorded, was $140.0 million and $178.7 million as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. There were no expected credit losses recorded against the Company’s investment securities as of January 31, 2025 and 2024.
Unrealized losses on the Company’s debt securities are not considered to be credit-related based upon an analysis that considered the extent to which the fair value is less than the amortized basis of a security, adverse conditions specifically related to the security, changes to credit rating of the instrument subsequent to Company purchase, and the strength of the underlying collateral, if any.
Refer to Note 5, Fair Value Measurements, for addition information about the fair value of the Company’s short-term marketable securities.
- Fair Value Measurements
The following tables present information about the Company’s financial assets that have been measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, and indicate the fair value hierarchy of the valuation inputs utilized to determine such fair value:
| January 31, 2025 | January 31, 2024 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Total | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Total |
| Financial Assets: | ||||||||
| Cash Equivalents: | ||||||||
| Money market funds | $57,158 | $— | $— | $57,158 | $52,647 | $— | $— | $52,647 |
| Marketable Securities: | ||||||||
| Corporate bonds | — | 106,654 | — | 106,654 | — | 98,703 | — | 98,703 |
| Municipal bonds | — | 12,745 | — | 12,745 | — | 985 | — | 985 |
| U.S. government and agency securities | — | 120,008 | — | 120,008 | — | 185,571 | — | 185,571 |
| Certificates of deposit | — | 34,611 | — | 34,611 | — | 46,543 | — | 46,543 |
| Commercial paper | — | 64,171 | — | 64,171 | — | 166,729 | — | 166,729 |
| Total financial assets | $57,158 | $338,189 | $— | $395,347 | $52,647 | $498,531 | $— | $551,178 |
The Company classifies its highly liquid money market funds within Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy because they are valued based on quoted market prices in active markets. The Company classifies its commercial paper, corporate and municipal debt securities, U.S. government and agency securities and certificates of deposit within Level 2 because they are valued using inputs other than quoted prices that are directly or indirectly observable in the market, including readily available pricing sources for the identical underlying security, which may not be actively traded.
The Company’s primary objective when investing excess cash is preservation of capital, hence the Company’s marketable securities consist primarily of U.S. government and agency securities, high credit quality corporate debt securities and commercial paper. The Company has classified and accounted for its marketable securities as available-for-sale securities, as it may sell these securities at any time for use in the Company’s current operations or for other purposes, even prior to maturity. As of January 31, 2025 and 2024, for fixed income securities that were in unrealized loss positions, the Company has determined that (i) it does not have the intent to sell any of these investments and (ii) it is not more likely than not that it will be required to sell any of these investments before recovery of the entire amortized cost basis. In addition, as of January 31, 2025, the Company anticipates that it will recover the entire amortized cost basis of such fixed income securities before maturity.
The Company regularly reviews the changes to the rating of its debt securities by rating agencies and reasonably monitors the surrounding economic conditions to assess the risk of expected credit losses. As discussed in Note 4, Marketable Securities, as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, there wereno securities that were in an unrealized loss position for more than 12 months. The Company hasnot recorded any impairments in the periods presented.
- Balance Sheet Components
Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets
Prepaid expenses and other current assets consisted of the following:
| January 31, | ||
|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 |
| Prepaid hosting and data costs | $20,761 | $1,673 |
| Prepaid software costs | 10,251 | 4,854 |
| Prepaid marketing | 2,869 | 1,208 |
| Capitalized commissions costs, current portion | 39,353 | 42,486 |
| Contract assets | 1,860 | 4,326 |
| Security deposits, short-term | 1,519 | 1,923 |
| Taxes recoverable | 2,467 | 3,561 |
| Restricted cash | 1,705 | 1,494 |
| Employee advances | 3,345 | 2,614 |
| Other | 852 | 6,551 |
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | $84,982 | $70,690 |
Property and Equipment, Net
Property and equipment, net consisted of the following:
| January 31, | ||
|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 |
| Computer equipment | $18,734 | $17,646 |
| Office furniture and other | 6,438 | 4,879 |
| Leasehold improvements | 10,256 | 10,370 |
| Less accumulated depreciation and amortization | (24,788) | (20,866) |
| Total fixed assets, net | 10,640 | 12,029 |
| Capitalized internal-use software | 63,695 | 50,212 |
| Less accumulated amortization | (42,744) | (30,065) |
| Total capitalized internal-use software | 20,951 | 20,147 |
| Property and equipment, net | $31,591 | $32,176 |
Depreciation and amortization expense consisted of the following:
| Year Ended January 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
| Depreciation and amortization expense | $6,000 | $5,961 | $6,148 |
| Amortization expense for capitalized internal-use software | $12,679 | $9,505 | $5,903 |
The Company capitalized internal-use software costs, including stock-based compensation, of $15.2 million, $14.2 million and $12.9 million, for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.
Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following:
| January 31, | ||
|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 |
| Bonuses | $20,463 | $23,314 |
| Commissions | 15,549 | 18,502 |
| Employee liabilities (1) | 15,994 | 19,019 |
| Purchased media costs (2) | 1,456 | 1,683 |
| Accrued sales and use tax liability | 6,505 | 8,522 |
| Accrued income taxes | 10,309 | 4,529 |
| Accrued deferred contract credits | 896 | 2,204 |
| Vendor and travel costs payable | 1,334 | 4,160 |
| Professional services | 1,030 | 1,142 |
| Withholding taxes payable | 910 | 944 |
| Other | 4,839 | 9,168 |
| Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities | $79,285 | $93,187 |
(1)Includes $1.0 million and $1.4 million of accrued employee contributions under the Company’s 2021 ESPP at January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Refer to Note 11, Stock-Based Compensation, for further discussion of the Company’s ESPP.
(2)Purchased media costs consist of amounts owed to the Company’s vendors for the purchase of advertising space on behalf of its customers.
- Goodwill
The changes in the carrying amount of goodwill for the periods presented were as follows:
| January 31, | ||
|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 |
| Balance at beginning of period | $50,027 | $50,030 |
| Effect of exchange rates | (70) | (3) |
| Balance at end of period | $49,957 | $50,027 |
On an annual basis, the Company performs a goodwill impairment analysis. As discussed in Note 2, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, there was no impairment in the periods presented.
- Leases
The Company adopted ASC 842 as of February 1, 2022. The Company has leases for corporate offices under non-cancelable operating leases with various expiration dates. The Company did not have any finance leases during the years ended January 31, 2025 and 2024.
On August 2, 2023, the Company entered into a 10-year operating lease agreement for a new corporate headquarters located in New York, NY. The Company has the option to extend the term for 60 months, which is not included in our right-of-use asset and lease liabilities, as the lease renewal is not reasonably certain to be exercised. The lease commenced on April 29, 2024, and payments began in December 2024.
The components of lease expense were as follows:
| Year Ended January 31, | ||
|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 |
| Operating lease cost | $12,396 | $11,086 |
| Variable lease cost | 1,307 | 1,270 |
| Short-term lease cost | 493 | 714 |
| Total lease cost | $14,196 | $13,070 |
The weighted-average remaining lease term and discount rate were as follows:
| January 31, | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| Weighted-average remaining lease term (in years) | 7.16 | 6.20 |
| Weighted-average discount rate | 8.70% | 10.11% |
The maturities of lease liabilities under non-cancelable operating leases, net of lease incentives were as follows:
| (in thousands) | |
|---|---|
| Fiscal year ended January 31, | |
| 2026 | $11,365 |
| 2027 | 10,436 |
| 2028 | 8,470 |
| 2029 | 7,126 |
| 2030 | 6,047 |
| Thereafter | 22,791 |
| Total minimum lease payments | 66,235 |
| Less: imputed interest | (17,530) |
| Total | $48,705 |
- Commitments and Contingencies
Contractual Obligations and Commitments
The Company has non-cancelable minimum guaranteed purchase commitments for various data, hosting and software services as of January 31, 2025 as follows:
| (in thousands) | |
|---|---|
| Fiscal year ended January 31, | |
| 2026 | $107,070 |
| 2027 | 120,970 |
| 2028 | 47,532 |
| 2029 | 32,750 |
| 2030 | $16,500 |
| Total | $324,822 |
Cash Collateral Agreements
In April 2023, the Company entered into cash collateral agreements with Silicon Valley Bank, a division of First Citizens Bank, in lieu of a letter of credit facility, which are associated with certain leases. Approximately $1.3 million is outstanding on these cash collateral agreements as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, which the Company has therefore classified within restricted cash. As of January 31, 2025, $0.7 million of this restricted cash is recorded within prepaid expenses and other current assets and $0.6 million is recorded within other non-current assets on the consolidated balance sheets. As of January 31, 2024, all of the restricted cash was recorded within other non-current assets on the consolidated balance sheets, due to its long-term nature.
Starting in 2023, the Company has entered into cash collateral agreements with J.P. Morgan Bank in lieu of a letter of credit facility, through which approximately $6.9 million and $5.4 million is outstanding as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. As of January 31, 2025, $1.0 million of this restricted cash is recorded within prepaid expenses and other current assets and $5.9 million is recorded within other non-current assets on the consolidated balance sheets. As of January 31, 2024, all of the restricted cash was recorded within other non-current assets on the consolidated balance sheets, due to its long-term nature.
Legal Matters
From time to time, the Company, various subsidiaries, and certain current and former officers may be named as defendants in various lawsuits, claims, investigations and proceedings arising from the normal course of business. The Company also may become involved with contract issues and disputes with customers. With respect to litigation in general, based on the Company’s experience, management believes that the amount of damages claimed in a case are not a meaningful indicator of the potential liability. Claims, suits, investigations and proceedings are inherently uncertain and it is not possible to predict the ultimate outcome of cases.
The Company makes a provision for a liability relating to legal matters when it is both probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. These provisions are reviewed at least quarterly and adjusted to reflect the impacts of negotiations, estimated settlements, legal rulings, advice of legal counsel and other information and events pertaining to a particular matter. In management’s opinion, resolution of all current matters is not expected to have a material adverse impact on the Company’s consolidated results of operations, cash flows or financial position. However, if an unfavorable ruling were to occur in any specific period, there exists the possibility of a material adverse impact on the results of operations for that period. At January 31, 2025, the Company had no provision for liability under existing litigation.
On August 13, 2024, a putative securities class action (the “Securities Action”) was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, captioned Boshart v. Sprinklr, Inc., et al., Case No. 1:24-cv-06132, naming the Company and certain of its officers as defendants. On November 22, 2024, the Court appointed a lead plaintiff for the putative class and changed the case title to In re Sprinklr, Inc. Securities Litigation. On January 24, 2025, the lead plaintiff filed an amended complaint asserting claims under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, on behalf of a putative class comprised of those who purchased or otherwise acquired the Company’s securities between March 29, 2023 and June 5, 2024 (the “Class Period”). The amended complaint alleges that the defendants misled investors during the putative Class Period, including by failing to disclose risks associated with Sprinklr Service, one of its product suites, and that the Company was focusing resources on Sprinklr Service rather than other product suites, and primarily seeks compensatory damages for all affected members of the putative class. On March 17, 2025, the defendants moved to dismiss the amended complaint. Briefing on the motion to dismiss is scheduled to be completed by June 2, 2025. The Company intends to vigorously defend against this lawsuit. Given the nature of the case, including that the proceedings are in their early stages, the Company is unable to predict the ultimate outcome of the case or estimate the range of potential loss, if any.
On March 18, 2025, a stockholder derivative action was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, captioned Coffey v. Thomas, et al., Case No. 1:25-cv-022422-UA. The complaint names the Company as a nominal defendant and purports to bring claims on behalf of the Company against certain of our current and former directors and officers for alleged violations of the federal securities laws and breaches of their fiduciary duties, among other claims, in relation to substantially the same factual allegations as those made in the Securities Action. The complaint primarily seeks to recover for the Company compensatory damages, restitution, and equitable relief in the form of certain corporate governance reforms
Other Contractual Commitments
The Company also has agreements in place related to its operating leases that impact its cash requirements. See Note 8, Leases for additional information.
- Stockholders’ Equity
Common Stock and Undesignated Preferred Stock
The Company has authorized 2,000,000,000 shares of Class A common stock with a par value of $0.00003 per share and 310,000,000 shares of Class B common stock with a par value of $0.00003 per share. The rights of the holders of Class A common stock and Class B common stock are identical, except with respect to voting and conversion rights. Each share of Class A common stock is entitled toone vote per share. Each share of Class B common stock is entitled toten votes per share and is convertible intoone share of Class A common stock. The holders of Class A common stock and Class B common stock are entitled to share equally, identically and ratably, on a per share basis, with respect to any dividend or distribution of cash or property paid or distributed by the Company, unless different treatment of the shares of the affected class is approved by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of such affected class, voting separately as a class.
Common Stock Warrants
In fiscal year 2021, the Company issued warrants allowing the holders to purchase up to 2.5 million shares of common stock for $10.00 per share. The warrants expire on October 7, 2025. As of January 31, 2025 and 2024, there were warrants to purchase up to 2.5 million shares of common stock outstanding.
Share Repurchase Program
On January 4, 2024, the Company announced that its board of directors authorized and approved a share repurchase plan, (the “2024 Share Repurchase Program”), which authorized the Company to periodically repurchase up to $100 million of its Class A common stock through December 31, 2024. On both March 26, 2024 and June 3, 2024, the Company’s board of directors approved an additional $100 million of repurchases under the 2024 Share Repurchase Program, bringing the total amount authorized for purchase under the 2024 Share Repurchase Program to $300 million.
During the year ended January 31, 2024, the Company repurchased 2,400,338 shares of its Class A common stock for an aggregate cost of $29.6 million, including commissions. Additionally, the Company repurchased 25,460,052 shares of its Class A common stock for an aggregate cost of $271.0 million, including commissions, during year ended January 31, 2025. All of the Company’s repurchases are subject to an excise tax enacted by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “IRA”). The Company recorded excise taxes of $1.9 million during the year ended January 31, 2025 as part of the cost basis of shares acquired in its consolidated statement of stockholders’ equity. All of the shares repurchased have been returned to the Company’s authorized but unissued share reserve. During the second quarter of fiscal year 2025, the Company completed the full purchase authorization of $300 million under the 2024 Share Repurchase Program.
- Stock-Based Compensation
Equity Incentive Plans
The Sprinklr, Inc. 2011 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2011 Plan”) provided certain equity grants to the Company’s employees, directors, consultants and service providers. The 2011 Plan was terminated as to future awards in June 2021 upon the adoption of the Sprinklr, Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2021 Plan”), although it continues to govern the terms of any equity grants that remain outstanding under the 2011 Plan.
The Company’s board of directors adopted the 2021 Plan in May 2021, which was subsequently approved by its stockholders and became effective on June 22, 2021. Initially, the maximum number of shares of the Company’s Class A common stock that may be issued under the 2021 Plan was 80,401,680 shares, which included (i)25,480,000 new shares of Class A common stock and (ii) shares subject to outstanding awards granted under the 2011 Plan that expire or otherwise terminate or that are not issued or are otherwise reacquired by the Company under certain circumstances. The 2021 Plan provides that the number of shares reserved and available for issuance under the 2021 Plan will automatically increase each January 1, beginning on January 1, 2022 and ending on (and including) January 1, 2031, by an amount equal to 5% of the number of our Class A and Class B common stock outstanding on the immediately preceding December 31 or such lesser number of shares as determined by the Company’s board of directors. As of January 31, 2025, there were 38,827,197 shares available for grant under the 2021 Plan.
The 2021 Plan provides for the grant of incentive stock options, non-statutory stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock awards, RSUs, PSUs, and other forms of awards to employees, directors and consultants, including employees and consultants of the Company's affiliates, as permitted by law. Stock options and RSUs generally vest over a service period offour years and stock options have a contractual term of 10 years.
Performance-Based Stock Units
In January 2021, the Company granted 3,100,000 PSUs to certain executives that vest over afive-year period if certain performance and market conditions are met (“2021 PSUs”). The performance condition was met on June 22, 2021, the effective date of the Company’s registration statement, filed in connection with its IPO. The market conditions of the 2021 PSUs will be achieved on the date, following the IPO, on which the volume weighted-average trading price of the Company’s Class A common stock has, for 45 consecutive trading days, equaled or exceeded predetermined threshold prices ranging between $30 and $100. If the first threshold of $30 is not met, then no shares will vest. Each 2021 PSU is equal to and paid inone share of Class B common stock. The number of shares actually issued will range from zero to 3,100,000 shares in the aggregate. If the market conditions are not met on or prior to thefive year anniversary of the grant date, the associated awards will not vest and be subsequently cancelled.
Upon effectiveness of the Company’s registration statement on June 22, 2021, the Company recognized cumulative stock-based compensation for the 2021 PSUs based on the proportion of the requisite service period already completed since the date of grant. The remaining stock-based compensation is recognized over the subsequent remaining requisite service period.
As of January 31, 2025, the Company had 780,000 2021 PSUs outstanding, as certain awards have been cancelled due to grantee departures. The market conditions have not yet been met as of January 31, 2025. If the market conditions are not met on or prior to January 28, 2026, the associated awards will not vest and will be subsequently cancelled.
In November 2024, the Company granted 2,137,500 PSUs to its new CEO that vest after athree-year period if certain market and performance conditions are met (“2024 PSUs”). Seventy-five percent of the 2024 PSUs are associated with a market condition relating to total shareholder return (“Market Condition 2024 PSUs”) and twenty-five percent of the 2024 PSUs are associated with a performance condition relating to the achievement of an internal metric calculated based on revenue and non-GAAP operating income growth over athree-year period (“Performance Condition 2024 PSUs”). The number of shares to be issued will range from zero to 4,275,000 shares in the aggregate as each of the Market Condition 2024 PSUs and Performance Condition 2024 PSUs will vest between zero and 200% depending on the achievement level of the market and performance conditions, respectively. If the market or performance conditions are not met on November 5, 2027, the associated awards will not vest and will be subsequently cancelled.
To determine the fair value of the Market Condition 2024 PSUs, the Company utilized a Monte Carlo simulation, a computational algorithm which allowed the Company to model the impact of one or more, often uncertain, variables on the value of complex securities and evaluate many possible outcomes to forecast the stock price of the Company. The Company applied an annual equity volatility of 53.7%, a risk-free rate of 4.13%, fair value of common stock of $8.21, an expected dividend yield ofzero and an expected term ofthree years to arrive at a valuation of $11.82 on the grant date. To determine the fair value of the Performance Condition 2024 PSUs, the stock price of $8.21 per share was utilized, as the observable market price on grant date is the best measure of fair value. As of January 31, 2025, it was deemed probable that 100% of the Performance Condition 2024 PSUs will vest. As of January 31, 2025, the Company had 2,137,500 2024 PSUs outstanding.
Former Chief Executive Officer Stock Option Agreement
In March 2019, the Company granted options to purchase 9,274,528 shares of common stock to its then Chief Executive Officer. The grant was split into four tranches, each covering 2,318,632 shares of common stock. Tranche 1 was service-based and vested over three years, with the full amount of the related stock-based compensation recognized by March 2022. Tranches 2, 3 and 4 are performance-based, with tranche 2 vesting upon the date of effectiveness of the Company’s registration statement and tranches 3 and 4 vesting if the Company’s share price equals or exceeds certain values at or after the date of the effectiveness the Company’s registration statement.
For the 6,955,896 options that were subject to the performance condition satisfied upon the effectiveness of the Company’s registration statement, stock-based compensation expense remained unrecognized until the effective date of June 22, 2021. On this date, the 2,318,632 options under tranche 2 vested and the Company recognized cumulative stock-based compensation expense using the accelerated attribution method for the portion of the options for which the service-based vesting condition was fully or partially satisfied. On August 4, 2021, market conditions related to tranche 3 were satisfied, vesting 2,318,632 options. As market conditions associated with tranche 4 were not met by May 1, 2023, the 2,318,632 options associated with this tranche were subsequently cancelled. As of January 31, 2025,6,955,896 options remain outstanding under this award.
Summary of Stock Option Activity
A summary of the Company’s stock option activity for the year ended January 31, 2025 is as follows:
| Number of Stock Options | Weighted Average Exercise Price | Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life | Aggregate Intrinsic Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) · (in years) · (in thousands) | ||||
| Outstanding as of January 31, 2024 | 23,267 | $6.66 | 5.9 | $136,602 |
| Exercised | (3,545) | 5.57 | ||
| Forfeited | (1,150) | 11.09 | ||
| Expired | — | 0.59 | ||
| Outstanding as of January 31, 2025 | 18,572 | $6.60 | 4.7 | $56,997 |
| Exercisable as of January 31, 2025 | 17,424 | $6.25 | 4.5 | $56,800 |
| Vested and expected to vest as of January 31, 2025 | 18,540 | $6.59 | 4.7 | $56,964 |
| Year Ended January 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
| Intrinsic value of options exercised | $19,423 | $58,565 | $32,391 |
| Estimated grant date fair value of options vested in the period | $12,601 | $12,954 | $32,085 |
There wereno options granted during the years ended January 31, 2025 and January 31, 2023. The weighted-average grant date fair value of options granted in the year ended January 31, 2024 was $7.56.
Determining Fair Value of Stock Options
The fair value of each option grant with service and performance conditions is estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option valuation model. The following assumptions were used to estimate the fair value of options granted to employees:
| Year Ended January 31, | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2025 · 2024 · 2023 | ||
| Expected term (in years) | (a) | 6.1(a) |
| Risk-free interest rate | (a) | 3.5%(a) |
| Expected volatility | (a) | 60.1%(a) |
| Expected dividend rate | (a) | 0%(a) |
| Fair value of common stock | (a) | $12.85(a) |
(a)In fiscal years ended January 31, 2025 and January 31, 2023, no stock options were granted.
The assumptions were based on the following for each of the periods presented:
Expected term—The expected term represents the period that the Company’s stock-based awards are expected to be outstanding. As all of the Company’s option grants are considered to be “plain vanilla,” the Company determined the expected term using the simplified method. The simplified method calculates the expected term as the average of the time-to-vesting and contractual terms of the stock-based award.
Risk-free interest rate—The risk-free interest rate is based on U.S. Treasury zero coupon issues with remaining terms similar to the expected term on the options.
Expected volatility—Because the Company had limited trading history by which to determine the volatility of its own common stock price, the expected volatility being used is derived from the historical stock volatilities of a representative industry peer group of comparable publicly listed companies over a period approximately equal to the expected term of the options.
Expected dividend rate—The Company has never declared or paid any cash dividends and does not anticipate paying cash dividends in the foreseeable future, and, therefore, used an expected dividend yield ofzero in the valuation model.
Fair value of common stock – Prior to the IPO, the fair value of common stock underlying the stock options had historically been determined by the Company's board of directors, with input from the Company’s management and its valuations from an independent third-party valuation specialist. The Company’s board of directors previously determined the fair value of the common stock at the time of grant of the options by also considering a number of objective and subjective factors, including valuations of comparable companies, sales of common stock to unrelated third parties, operating and financial performance, the lack of liquidity of the Company’s capital stock, and general and industry-specific economic outlook. Subsequent to the IPO, the Company determines the fair value using the closing price, on the date of grant, of the Company’s Class A common stock, which is publicly traded on the NYSE.
Forfeiture rate—The Company estimates forfeitures at the time of grant and revises those estimates in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates. For executive employees, the forfeiture rate is zero and for non-executive employees the estimated forfeiture rate assumes that the likelihood that an award will be forfeited decreases through the passage of time.
Restricted Stock Units
A summary of the Company’s RSU activity for the year ended January 31, 2025 is as follows:
| (in thousands except per share data) | Number of Restricted Stock Units | Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| Outstanding as of January 31, 2024 | 9,259 | $12.61 |
| Granted | 13,832 | 9.86 |
| Released | (3,317) | 12.75 |
| Cancelled/forfeited | (5,024) | 11.23 |
| Outstanding as of January 31, 2025 | 14,750 | $10.46 |
In January 2021, the Company granted 300,000 RSUs with a performance condition. These RSUs vest over afive-year period, with 20% met afterone year and then equal quarterly installments over the succeeding four years if a certain performance condition is met. The performance condition was met upon the effective date of the Company’s registration statement, filed in connection with its IPO, June 22, 2021. Stock-based compensation related to these RSUs remained unrecognized prior to effectiveness of the Company’s registration statement as the performance condition was not yet deemed probable. On June 22, 2021, the Company recognized cumulative stock-based compensation based on the proportion of the requisite service period already completed since the date of grant. The remaining stock-based compensation is being recognized over the subsequent remaining requisite service period.
In November 2024, the Company granted its new CEO 2,137,500 RSUs.1,425,000 of these RSUs vest over three years, with one-third of the total shares vesting after aone year cliff and the remainder vesting quarterly thereafter. The remaining 712,500 RSUs vest over four years, with one-fourth of the total shares vesting after aone year cliff and the remainder vesting quarterly thereafter.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
In June 2021, the Company’s ESPP became effective. The ESPP initially reservedup to 5,100,000 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock to certain eligible employees or, as designated by the board of directors. The number of shares reserved for issuance under the ESPP automatically increases each January 1, beginning on January 1, 2022 and ending on (and including) January 1, 2031, by an amount equal to the lesser of (i)1% of the outstanding number of shares of Class A and Class B common stock on the immediately preceding December 31 and (ii)15,300,000, or such lesser number of shares as determined by the Company’s board of directors. The ESPP is intended to qualify as an ‘employee stock purchase plan’ under Section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code and also contains the necessary rights to permit participation by eligible employees who are foreign nationals or employed outside of the United States while complying with applicable foreign laws. The Company had 6,727,997 shares reserved for future issuance as of January 31, 2025.
Under the ESPP, employees may purchase common stock through payroll deductions at a price equal to 85% of the lower of the fair market value of the Class A common stock on (i) the first trading day of each offering period and (ii) the last trading day of each related offering period. The ESPP provides for consecutive offering periods that will typically have a duration of approximately 12 months in length and is comprised oftwo purchase periods of approximatelysix months in length. The offering periods are scheduled to start on the first trading day on or after June 15 and December 15 of each year, subject to a reset provision. The first offering period commenced on June 23, 2021.
If the fair market value of the Company’s stock on the offering date is higher than the fair market value of the Company’s stock on the last day of any applicable purchase period, participants will be withdrawn from the ongoing offering period and automatically be enrolled in the subsequent offering period, resulting in modification accounting. Total incremental expense as a result of modifications was $1.7 million, $0.2 million and $2.4 million for fiscal years 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively, which will be recognized over the new offering periods.
ESPP employee payroll contributions accrued as of January 31, 2025 and 2024 totaled $1.0 million and $1.4 million, respectively, and are included within accrued expenses and other current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet. Employee payroll contributions ultimately used to purchase shares will be reclassified to stockholders’ equity on the purchase date. The Company recorded stock-based compensation of $3.0 million, $3.7 million and $8.6 million during the years ended January 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively, in connection with the ESPP.
The fair value of share purchase rights granted under the ESPP was estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:
| Year Ended January 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | |
| Expected term (in years) | 0.5 - 1.0 | 0.5 - 1.0 | 0.5 - 1.0 |
| Risk-free interest rate | 4.2% - 5.3% | 4.9% - 5.3% | 2.2% - 4.6% |
| Expected volatility | 39.5% - 54.3% | 49.4% - 67.4% | 66.2% - 81.9% |
| Expected dividend rate | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Fair value of common stock | $8.82 - $9.42 | $11.48 - $14.58 | $8.84 - $9.84 |
Stock-Based Compensation Expense
Stock-based compensation expense included in operating results was allocated as follows:
| Year Ended January 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
| Cost of subscription | $1,323 | $1,130 | $1,528 |
| Cost of professional | 1,387 | 1,450 | 2,249 |
| Research and development | 11,404 | 11,566 | 10,678 |
| Sales and marketing | 21,331 | 24,477 | 26,651 |
| General and administrative | 24,072 | 17,134 | 14,411 |
| Stock-based compensation, net of amounts capitalized | 59,517 | 55,757 | 55,517 |
| Capitalized stock-based compensation | 2,538 | 2,473 | 2,540 |
| Total stock-based compensation | $62,055 | $58,230 | $58,057 |
| Year Ended January 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
| Equity classified awards (1) | $61,055 | $57,230 | $57,057 |
| Other awards (2) | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| Total stock-based compensation | $62,055 | $58,230 | $58,057 |
| Year Ended January 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
| Stock options | $9,745 | $15,125 | $23,454 |
| Performance-based stock units (3) | 1,617 | (296) | (55) |
| Restricted stock units | 46,683 | 38,684 | 24,963 |
| Employee stock purchase plan | 3,010 | 3,717 | 8,695 |
| Total stock-based compensation | $61,055 | $57,230 | $57,057 |
(1)Expense associated with equity-classified awards includes $3.0 million, $3.7 million and $8.6 million of ESPP expense recognized during the years ended January 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
(2)Non-employee grant recorded over five years, representing the same period and in the same manner as if the grantor had paid cash for the services instead of paying with or using the share-based payment award.
(3) The stock-based compensation for performance-based stock units during the year ended January 31, 2023 includes the impact of stock-based compensation modifications.
As of January 31, 2025, total unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested awards not yet recognized under all equity compensation plans, was as follows:
| January 31, 2025 | ||
|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | Unrecognized Expense | Weighted Average Expense Recognition Period (in years) |
| Stock options | $7,393 | 1.8 |
| Performance share units | $22,080 | 2.7 |
| Restricted stock units | $113,679 | 2.7 |
| ESPP | $1,384 | 0.9 |
- Net Income (Loss) Per Share
Basic net income (loss) per share is computed by dividing net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders (the numerator) by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding (the denominator) for the period. Diluted net income (loss) per share is calculated by giving effect to all potential dilutive common stock equivalents, which includes stock options, restricted stock units and other awards. In periods of losses, diluted loss per share is computed on the same basis as basic loss per share as the inclusion of any other potential shares outstanding would be anti-dilutive.
The Company hastwo classes of common stock: Class A common stock and Class B common stock. The rights of the holders of Class A common stock and Class B common stock are identical, except with respect to voting, conversion and transfer rights. As the liquidation and dividend rights are identical, the undistributed earnings are allocated on a proportionate basis to each class of common stock and the resulting basic and diluted net income (loss) per share attributable to common stockholders are, therefore, the same for both Class A and Class B common stock on both an individual and combined basis.
The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted net income (loss) per share:
| Year Ended January 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| (in thousands, except per share data) | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
| Net income (loss) per share – basic: | |||
| Numerator: | |||
| Net income (loss) | $121,609 | $51,403 | $(55,742) |
| Denominator: | |||
| Weighted-average shares outstanding used in computing net income (loss) per share, basic | 260,241 | 269,974 | 259,530 |
| Net income (loss) per common share, basic | $0.47 | $0.19 | $(0.21) |
| Net income (loss) per share - diluted: | |||
| Numerator: | |||
| Net income (loss) | $121,609 | $51,403 | $(55,742) |
| Denominator: | |||
| Weighted-average shares outstanding used in computing net income (loss) per share, basic | 260,241 | 269,974 | 259,530 |
| Weighted-average effect of diluted securities: | |||
| Stock options | 7,563 | 11,749 | — |
| PSUs | 244 | — | — |
| RSUs | 6,725 | 4,783 | — |
| Common stock warrants | — | 587 | — |
| Weighted-average shares outstanding used in computing net income (loss) per share, diluted | 274,773 | 287,093 | 259,530 |
| Net income (loss) per common share, diluted | $0.44 | $0.18 | $(0.21) |
Potentially dilutive securities that were not included in the diluted per share calculations because they would be anti-dilutive were as follows:
| Year Ended January 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
| Stock options | 4,870 | 2,595 | 33,049 |
| PSUs | 1,314 | 780 | 1,450 |
| RSUs | 2,872 | 415 | 9,400 |
| ESPP | 100 | 91 | 168 |
| Warrants to purchase common stock | 39 | — | 2,500 |
| Total shares excluded from net income (loss) per share | 9,195 | 3,881 | 46,567 |
- Income Taxes
The domestic and foreign component of the income (loss) before provision for income taxes was as follows:
| Year Ended January 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
| Domestic | $18,464 | $32,033 | $(70,072) |
| Foreign | 29,828 | 28,489 | 22,604 |
| Total | $48,292 | $60,522 | $(47,468) |
The (benefit) provision for income taxes consisted of the following:
| Year Ended January 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
| Current tax provision: | |||
| Federal | $— | $— | $— |
| State | 1,834 | 207 | 69 |
| Foreign | 12,875 | 11,788 | 8,039 |
| Total current tax provision | $14,709 | $11,995 | $8,108 |
| Deferred tax (benefit) expense: | |||
| Federal | $(69,072) | $94 | $92 |
| State | (17,795) | 108 | 142 |
| Foreign | (1,159) | (3,078) | (68) |
| Total deferred tax (benefit) expense | (88,026) | (2,876) | 166 |
| Total (benefit) provision for income taxes | $(73,317) | $9,119 | $8,274 |
A reconciliation of the U.S. federal statutory income tax rate to the Company’s effective tax rate was as follows:
| Year Ended January 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | |
| U.S. federal statutory rate | 21.0% | 21.0% | 21.0% |
| Effect of: | |||
| State taxes, net of U.S. federal benefit | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.2 |
| Foreign taxes in excess of the U.S. rate differential | 1.4 | 1.6 | (3.7) |
| Foreign withholding taxes | 6.3 | 6.1 | (1.8) |
| Non-deductible expenses | 4.2 | 0.3 | (11.4) |
| Non-deductible officer's compensation | 7.9 | 16.3 | (2.7) |
| Changes in valuation allowance | (199.5) | (31.3) | (15.9) |
| Excess tax benefits related to shared based compensation | (4.1) | (3.6) | 4.4 |
| Global Intangible Low Taxed Income (GILTI) inclusion | — | 0.3 | (12.7) |
| Impact of disregarded entity elections | 7.0 | — | — |
| Other | 1.4 | 2.0 | 3.1 |
| Effective tax rate | (151.8)% | 15.1% | (17.5)% |
Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities
The components of deferred tax assets and liabilities were as follows:
| January 31, | ||
|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 |
| Deferred tax assets: | ||
| Net operating loss carryforward | $90,177 | $112,671 |
| Accrued compensation | 6,911 | 1,866 |
| Accrued commissions | 4,847 | 1,406 |
| Fixed assets and intangibles | 3,486 | 882 |
| Allowance for doubtful accounts | 2,137 | 1,294 |
| Deferred revenue | 2,012 | 337 |
| Stock-based compensation | 8,800 | 4,962 |
| Lease liabilities | 11,719 | 1,731 |
| Other | 8,751 | — |
| Total deferred tax assets | 138,840 | 125,149 |
| Less valuation allowance | (705) | (86,203) |
| Deferred tax assets, net of valuation allowance | 138,135 | 38,946 |
| Deferred tax liabilities | ||
| Fixed assets and intangibles | — | (876) |
| Capitalized commission costs | (34,834) | (33,379) |
| Lease right-of-use | (10,638) | (1,525) |
| Other | (2,329) | (332) |
| Total deferred tax liabilities | (47,801) | (36,112) |
| Net deferred tax assets(1) | $90,334 | $2,834 |
(1)Deferred tax assets of $90.4 million and $4.3 million are recorded within other non-current assets on the consolidated balance sheets as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
At January 31, 2025, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the Company had net operating loss (“NOL”) carryforwards of approximately $335.7 million, which expire in fiscal 2034 through fiscal 2038. The U.S. federal net operating losses generated after fiscal 2019 do not expire and may be carried forward indefinitely. For U.S. states income tax purposes, the Company had net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $258.9 million, which expire in various years beginning from fiscal 2026 through fiscal 2042. As of January 31, 2025, based on the relevant weight of positive and negative evidence, including the amount of our taxable income in recent years which is objective and verifiable, and consideration of our expected future taxable earnings, we have now recognized deferred tax assets without an offsetting valuation allowance for these federal and state NOLs. For foreign income tax purposes, the Company had net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $6.9 million, which expire beginning fiscal 2026.
Utilization of the Company’s net operating loss carryforwards may be subject to an annual limitation as a result of an ownership change, as defined under the provisions of Section 382 of the Code and similar state provisions. Such an annual limitation could result in the expiration of the net operating loss carryforwards before utilization. Analysis has been conducted to determine whether an ownership change had occurred since inception. This analysis has indicated that although ownership changes have occurred in a prior year, the net operating losses would not expire before utilization as a result of the ownership change. In the event that the Company has subsequent changes in ownership, net operating losses and research and development credit carryovers could be limited and may expire unutilized as a result of the subsequent ownership change. Utilization of the Company’s foreign NOL carryforwards in the future will be dependent upon the local tax law and regulation.
The Company had a valuation allowance of $0.7 million and $86.2 million as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. We monitor the realizability of our deferred tax assets taking into account all relevant factors at each reporting period. As of January 31, 2025, based on the relevant weight of positive and negative evidence, including cumulative taxable income over the past three years, which is objective and verifiable, and consideration of our expected future taxable earnings, we concluded that it is more likely than not that our U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets are realizable. As such, we released $87.1 million of our valuation allowance associated with the U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets.
Following an assessment of the realizability of deferred tax assets in Brazil and Japan, the Company released its previously established valuation allowances on these assets, resulting in a $3.3 million tax benefit being recorded during the year ended January 31, 2024.
The Company has not recorded deferred income taxes and withholding taxes with respect to the undistributed earnings of its foreign subsidiaries, as such earnings are determined to be reinvested indefinitely. If those earnings were repatriated, in the form of dividends or otherwise, the Company could be subject to U.S. income taxes and withholding taxes to the various foreign countries. As of January 31, 2025, the Company had $85.4 million of earnings indefinitely reinvested outside of the U.S. Due to complexities in the laws of the foreign jurisdictions and the assumptions that would have to be made, it is not practicable to estimate the amount of tax associated with such unremitted earnings.
The IRA was signed into law on August 16, 2022. The bill was meant to address the high inflation rate in the U.S. through various climate, energy, healthcare, and other incentives. These incentives are meant to be paid for by the tax provisions included in the IRA, such as a new 15 percent corporate minimum tax, a new excise tax on stock buybacks, additional IRS funding to improve taxpayer compliance, and other items. As of January 31, 2025, the Company has accrued $1.9 million of excise taxes associated with the 2024 Share Repurchase Program. At this time, none of the IRA tax provisions are expected to have a material impact to the Company’s fiscal year 2025 tax provision. The Company will continue to monitor for updates to the Company’s business along with guidance issued with respect to the IRA.
Unrecognized Tax Benefits and Other Considerations
The Company records liabilities related to its uncertain tax positions. The Company recognizes the tax benefit of an uncertain tax position only if it is more likely than not that the position is sustainable upon examination by the taxing authority, based on the technical merits. The tax benefit recognized is measured as the largest amount of benefit that is greater than 50 percent likely to be realized upon settlement with the taxing authority. The Company records interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits within the Company’s provision for income taxes.
A reconciliation of the beginning and ending balance of total gross unrecognized tax benefits for the year ended January 31, 2025:
| Year Ended January 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
| Balance at beginning of period | $2,436 | $1,728 | $1,539 |
| Tax positions taken during a prior year: | |||
| Gross decreases | — | — | (288) |
| Tax positions taken during the current year: | |||
| Gross increases | 666 | 708 | 477 |
| Balance at end of period | $3,102 | $2,436 | $1,728 |
As of January 31, 2025, the Company had recorded unrecognized tax benefits of $3.1 million that, if recognized, would benefit the Company’s effective tax rate. As of January 31, 2024, the Company had recorded unrecognized tax benefits of $2.4 million that, if recognized, would benefit the Company’s effective tax rate.
The Company recognized immaterial amounts of interest and penalties related to income tax matters as a component of income tax expense during the years ended January 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023. In addition, the Company accrued immaterial amounts related to penalties and interest as of January 31, 2025 and 2024.
The Company’s India subsidiary is currently under audit in India for tax years 2016 through 2018. Related to the audit by the India tax authorities, it is reasonably possible that the Company’s uncertain tax positions could change within the next 12 months. An estimate of the range of any change cannot be made. The Company believes that it has recorded all appropriate provisions for all jurisdictions and open years. However, the Company can give no assurance that taxing authorities will not propose adjustments that would increase its tax liabilities. The Company is not currently under audit by the IRS or any other taxing authority in any other material jurisdiction.
Because of net operating loss carryforwards, all of the Company’s tax years dating to inception in 2012 remain open to tax examination in U.S. and certain state tax jurisdictions. For India, tax years from 2016 remain open. For other major non-U.S. jurisdictions, tax years from 2019 to present remain open to tax examination.
- Restructuring
In February 2023, the Company implemented an approved plan for restructuring its global workforce by approximately 4% to reduce operating costs and better align its workforce with the needs of its business. The majority of the associated costs, including severance and benefits, were incurred in the first half of fiscal year 2024. For the year ended January 31, 2024, the Company incurred a total of $4.3 million in restructuring costs of which $4.1 million and $0.2 million are recorded within sales and marketing expense andgeneral and administrative expense, respectively, on the Company’s condensed consolidated statement of operations. As of January 31, 2024, all of these restructuring costs had been paid.
In May 2024, the Company implemented an approved plan for restructuring its global workforce by approximately 3% to reduce operating costs and better align its workforce with the needs of its business. The majority of the associated costs, including severance and benefits, were incurred in the second quarter of fiscal year 2025. For the year ended January 31, 2025, the Company incurred a total of $2.8 million in restructuring costs, $2.0 million of which are recorded within sales and marketing expense on the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of operations and $0.4 million, $0.3 million, and $0.1 million being recorded within research and development, costs of professional services, andgeneral and administrative, respectively. As of January 31, 2025, all restructuring costs have been paid.
- Segment and Geographic Information
The Company’s operations consist ofone operating and reportable segment reflecting the manner in which operations are managed and the criteria used by the CODM, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, to evaluate performance, develop strategy, and allocate resources. Ourone segment provides enterprise cloud software products that enable organizations to do marketing, advertising, research, care, sales and engagement across modern channels including social, messaging, chat and text through its Unified Customer Experience Management software platform. The CODM makes operating performance assessments and resource allocation decisions on a global basis using net income (loss), which is also reported on the consolidated statements of operations as “net income (loss).” Our CODM uses net income (loss) to make operating decisions based on historical results and forecasts for future periods. The measure of segment assets is reported on its consolidated balance sheets as “total assets.” There is no expense or asset information that is supplemental to those disclosed in these consolidated financial statements that is regularly provided to the CODM. Other segment items included in consolidated net income (loss) are depreciation and amortization, interest income and (benefit) provision for income taxes, which are included in the consolidated statements of operation or within other notes to these consolidated financial statements. The accounting policies of our reportable segment are the same as our consolidated accounting policies.
The following table summarizes the revenue by region based on the shipping address of customers who have contracted to use the cloud-based software platform:
| Year Ended January 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
| Americas | $466,003 | $435,315 | $397,616 |
| EMEA | 269,007 | 237,875 | 176,777 |
| Other | 61,384 | 59,170 | 43,797 |
| $796,394 | $732,360 | $618,190 | |
The United States was the only country that represented more than 10% of the Company's revenues, comprising $433.7 million, $407.2 million and $373.1 million in the years ended January 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Long-lived assets by geographical region are based on the location of the legal entity that owns the assets. As of January 31, 2025 and 2024, long lived assets by geographic region were as follows:
| January 31, | ||
|---|---|---|
| (in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 |
| Americas | $24,792 | $22,653 |
| EMEA | 2,380 | 3,854 |
| Other | 4,419 | 5,669 |
| $31,591 | $32,176 | |
Fixed assets held in the United States were $24.8 million and $22.5 million at January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Right of use assets of $44.6 million and $31.1 million at January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, are not included in the table above, of which $19.6 million and $3.3 million were held in the United States at January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and $14.9 million and $16.8 million were held in India at January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
- Related Parties
The Company engaged Lyearn Inc. (“Lyearn”), a learning management system company that is wholly owned by Ragy Thomas, our Founder and Chairman, in connection with the provision of digital training services to the Company’s employees and certain Sprinklr customers. The Company paid approximately $0.1 million, $0.2 million, andnil to Lyearn in connection with the digital training services provided to employees for the year ended January 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively. The Company paid approximately $0.1 million to Lyearn in connection with the digital training services provided to a customer for each of the years ended January 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.
The Company recognized expenses of $0.2 million during each of the years ended January 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023. As of January 31, 2025 and January 31, 2024, the Company had outstanding payables of $0.1 million and $0.2 million, respectively, related to the arrangements.
This related party transaction has been reviewed and approved by the audit committee of the Company’s board of directors.
- Employee Benefit Plans
The Company provides benefit plans for its employees in the United States. The Sprinklr 401(k) Plan is available to all eligible employees on the Company’s U.S. payroll who are automatically enrolled for pre-tax deferrals on the first pay date after satisfying the eligibility requirements. The Sprinklr 401(k) Plan is qualified under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code and provides employees with tax-deferred and after-tax salary deductions, up to a maximum allowable limit, and alternative investment options. Employees may contribute up to the lesser of 100% of their eligible compensation or the statutory prescribed annual limit. Starting in 2022, the Company makes a matching contribution equal to 30% of a participant’s eligible compensation up to the first 4% of such person’s elected deferral.
The Company’s defined contribution plan in the United Kingdom is available to all employees on the Company’s U.K. payroll in accordance with the U.K. government regulations. Under this plan, employees can defer a percentage of their paycheck to a tax-deferred account. The Company contributes as per the local statutory regulations.
The amounts the Company contributed to defined contribution plans were immaterial during fiscal years ended January 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023.
- Subsequent events
In February 2025, the Company implemented an approved plan for restructuring its global workforce by approximately 15% to help position the Company for long-term success by realigning employee costs with the current business and freeing up capital for incremental investments. The Company estimates that it will incur approximately $22 million in restructuring charges associated with this action. The majority of the associated costs, including severance, benefits and the acceleration of equity awards, are expected to be incurred in the first half of fiscal 2026.
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