Certara Inc

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2024

or

For the transition period from ______________ to ______________

Commission File Number:001-39799

Certara, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

100 Overlook Center

Suite 101

Princeton, New Jersey 08540

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(609)716-7900

(Registrant’s telephone number)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x Noo

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes x Noo

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yeso Nox

As of May 01, 2024, the registrant had 160,841,451 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, outstanding.

Certara, Inc.

Unless otherwise indicated, references to the “Company,” “Certara,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Certara, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries.

SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (this “Quarterly Report”) contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), which are subject to the “safe harbor” created by those sections. All statements (other than statements of historical facts) in this Quarterly Report regarding the prospects of the industry and our prospects, plans, financial position and business strategy may constitute forward-looking statements. In addition, forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “may,” “should,” “expect,” “might,” “intend,” “will,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “plan,” “believe,” “predict,” “potential,” “continue,” “suggest,” “project” or “target” or the negatives of these terms or variations of them or similar terminology. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot provide any assurance that these expectations will prove to be correct. Such statements reflect the current views of our management with respect to our operations, results of operations and future financial performance. The following factors are among those that may cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements:

•any deceleration in, or resistance to, the acceptance of model-informed biopharmaceutical discovery and development;

•our ability to compete within our market;

•changes or delays in government regulation relating to the biopharmaceutical industry;

•trends in research and development (“R&D”) spending, the use of third parties by biopharmaceutical companies and a shift toward more R&D occurring at smaller biotechnology companies;

•consolidation within the biopharmaceutical industry;

•pricing pressures due to increased customer utilization of our products;

•our ability to successfully enter new markets, increase our customer base and expand our relationships with existing customers;

•our ability to retain key personnel or recruit additional qualified personnel;

•risks related to the mischaracterization of our independent contractors;

•any delays or defects in our release of new or enhanced software or other biosimulation tools;

•issues relating to the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in our products and services;

•failure of our existing customers to renew their software licenses or any delays or terminations of contracts or reductions in scope of work by our existing customers;

•risks related to our contracts with government customers, including the ability of third parties to challenge our receipt of such contracts;

•risks related to our contracts with government customers, including the ability of third parties to challenge our receipt of such contracts;

•our ability to sustain recent growth rates;

•increasing competition, regulation and other cost pressures within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries;

•any future acquisitions and our ability to successfully integrate such acquisitions;

•the accuracy of our addressable market estimates;

•our ability to successfully operate a global business;

•our ability to comply with applicable anti-corruption, trade compliance and economic sanctions laws and regulations;

•risks related to litigation against us;

•the adequacy of our insurance coverage and our ability to obtain adequate insurance coverage in the future;

•our ability to perform our services in accordance with contractual requirements, regulatory standards and ethical considerations;

•the loss of more than one of our major customers;

•our future capital needs;

•the ability or inability of our bookings to accurately predict our future revenue and our ability to realize the anticipated revenue reflected in our bookings;

•the occurrence of natural disasters, pandemics, epidemic diseases, and public health crises, which may result in delays or cancellations of customer contracts or decreased utilization by our employees;

•any disruption in the operations of the third-party providers who host our software solutions or any limitations on their capacity or interference with our use;

•our ability to reliably meet our data storage and management requirements, or the experience of any failures or interruptions in the delivery of our services over the internet;

•our ability to comply with the terms of any licenses governing our use of third-party open source software utilized in our software solutions;

•any unauthorized access to or use of customer or other proprietary or confidential data or other breach of our cybersecurity measures;

•our ability to comply with applicable privacy and cybersecurity laws;

•our ability to adequately enforce or defend our ownership and use of our intellectual property and other proprietary rights;

•any allegations that we are infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating a third party’s intellectual property rights;

•our ability to meet the obligations under our current or future indebtedness as they become due and have sufficient capital to operate our business and react to changes in the economy or industry;

•any limitations on our ability to pursue our business strategies due to restrictions under our current or future indebtedness or inability to comply with any restrictions under such indebtedness;

•any impairment of goodwill or other intangible assets;

•our ability to use our net operating loss (“NOLs”) and R&D tax credit carryforwards to offset future taxable income;

•the accuracy of our estimates and judgments relating to our critical accounting policies and any changes in financial reporting standards or interpretations;

•any inability to design, implement, and maintain effective internal controls when required by law, or inability to timely remediate internal controls that are deemed ineffective; and

•the other factors described elsewhere in this Quarterly Report, in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 (“2023 Annual Report”), and in the other documents and reports we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).

You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. The forward-looking statements in this Quarterly Report are based on our beliefs, assumptions and expectations of future performance, taking into account the information currently available to us. These statements are only predictions based upon our current expectations and projections about future events. There are important factors, including those described in the section titled “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this Quarterly Report and in our 2023 Annual Report and subsequent SEC filings , which could cause our actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from the results, level of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New risks emerge from time to time and it is not possible for our management to predict all risks, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements we may make in this Quarterly Report. Such risk factors may be updated from time to time in our periodic filings with the SEC. Our periodic filings are accessible on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee that the future results, levels of activity, performance and events and circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements will be achieved or occur. The forward-looking statements made in this Quarterly Report relate only to events as of the date on which the statements are made. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason after the date of this Quarterly Report to conform these statements to actual results or to changes in our expectations.

In addition, statements that “we believe” and similar statements reflect our beliefs and opinions on the relevant subject. These statements are based upon information available to us as of the date of this Quarterly Report, and while we believe such information forms a reasonable basis for such statements, such information may be limited or incomplete, and our statements should not be read to indicate that we have conducted an exhaustive inquiry into, or review of, all potentially available relevant information. These statements are inherently uncertain and investors are cautioned not to unduly rely upon these statements..

Channels for Disclosure of Information

Investors and others should note that we may announce material information to the public through filings with the SEC, our Investors Relations website (https://ir.certara.com), press releases, public conference calls and public webcasts. We use these channels to communicate with the public about the Company, our products, our services and other matters. We encourage our investors, the media and others to review the information disclosed through these channels as such information could be deemed to be material information. The information on such channels, including on our website, is not incorporated by reference in this Quarterly Report and shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any other filing under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, except as expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing. This list of disclosure channels may be updated from time to time.