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• comply with existing and new laws and regulations applicable to our business and in the industries in which we participate;
−Removed: • anticipate and respond to macroeconomic changes, changes within the existing and future industries in which we participate, including the Home Services, Health Services and Fitness & Wellness industries, and changes in the markets in which we operate;
+Added: • anticipate and respond to macroeconomic changes, changes within the existing and future industries in which we participate, including the Home Services, Health Services and Wellness industries, and changes in the markets in which we operate;
• foresee and manage market volatility impacts on market value;
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We have encountered in the past, and will encounter in the future, risks and uncertainties frequently experienced by growing companies with limited operating histories and evolving businesses that operate in regulated and competitive industries.
−Removed: If our assumptions regarding these risks and uncertainties, which we use to plan and operate our business, are incorrect or change, or if we do not address these risks successfully, our results of operations could differ materially from our expectations and our business, financial condition and results of operations would be adversely affected.
+Added: If our assumptions regarding
+Added: these risks and uncertainties, which we use to plan and operate our business, are incorrect or change, or if we do not address these risks successfully, our results of operations could differ materially from our expectations and our business, financial condition and results of operations would be adversely affected.
Our recent growth rates may not be sustainable or indicative of future growth.
−Removed: Since our founding, we have generated significant revenue growth through acquisitions and by driving organic growth of our business.
+Added: Since our founding, we have generated revenue growth through acquisitions and by driving organic growth of our business.
Our revenue has grown at a CAGR of 12.5% from 2021 to 2024, and reached $698.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, up from $675.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, which represents revenue growth of 3.5% from 2023 to 2024.
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We cannot provide assurance that we will be able to successfully manage any such challenges or risks to our future growth.
−Removed: In addition, our base of customers may not continue to grow or may decline due to a variety of possible risks, including changes in macroeconomic conditions, increased competition, changes in the regulatory landscape and the maturation of our business.
+Added: In addition, our base of customers may not continue to grow or may decline due to a variety of possible risks, including changes in macroeconomic conditions, such as inflation, interest rates and tariffs, increased competition, changes in the regulatory landscape and the maturation of our business.
Any of these factors could cause our revenue growth to decline and may adversely affect our margins and profitability.
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Our net cash provided by operating activities was $113.2 million in 2024 and $104.6 million in 2023.
−Removed: We had cash and cash equivalents of $92.6 million and restricted cash of $3.6 million as of December 31, 2023.
+Added: We had cash and cash equivalents of $135.8 million and no restricted cash as of December 31, 2024.
Our future capital requirements may be significantly different from our current estimates and will depend on many factors, including the need to:
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As part of our strategy to expand into new vertical markets, we look for acquisition opportunities and partnerships that will allow us to increase our market penetration, technological capabilities, offering of solutions and distribution capabilities.
−Removed: We may not be able to successfully identify suitable acquisition or partnership candidates in the future, and if we do, they may not provide us with the benefits we anticipated.
+Added: We may not be able to successfully
+Added: identify suitable acquisition or partnership candidates in the future, and if we do, they may not provide us with the benefits we anticipated.
Our expansion into new vertical markets also depends upon our ability to adapt our existing technology or to develop new technologies to meet the particular needs of each new vertical market.
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As our platform is utilized across industries, we compete in a variety of highly fragmented markets and face competition from a variety of sources, including manual processes, basic PC tools, homegrown solutions, as well as from vertically-specialized and horizontal competitors.
−Removed: Vertically-specialized competitors include mobile sales applications and field service management platforms in Home Services, EHR / EMR and practice management platforms in Health Services and facility and employee management and member management and programming platforms in Fitness & Wellness Services.
+Added: Vertically-specialized competitors include mobile sales applications and field service management platforms in Home Services, EHR / EMR and practice management platforms in Health Services and scheduling and management in Wellness Services.
Horizontal competitors include Salesforce for CRM, Intuit for financial products, Square for payments and HubSpot for marketing-related solutions.
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We may also potentially face competition from our current partners.
−Removed: Our partners, including our integration partners for our EHR and PM solutions within Health Services, our Business Management Software solutions within Home Services and our payment and CRM solutions within Fitness & Wellness Services, as well as our third-party payment processing partners, could become our competitors by offering similar services.
+Added: Our partners, including our integration partners for our EHR and PM solutions within Health Services, our Business Management Software solutions within Home Services and our payment and CRM solutions within Wellness Services, as well as our third-party payment processing partners, could become our competitors by offering similar services.
Some of our partners offer, or may begin to offer, services in the same or similar manner as we do.
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The market for software and technology-enabled services that empower SMBs is characterized by rapid technological change, new product and service introductions, consumerism and engagement and the entrance of non-traditional competitors.
−Removed: In addition, there may be a limited-time opportunity to achieve and maintain a significant share of these markets due in part to the rapidly evolving nature of the businesses within our Home Services, Health Services and Fitness & Wellness Services verticals, the technology industries that support these businesses and the substantial resources available to our existing and potential competitors.
+Added: In addition, there may be a limited-time opportunity to achieve and maintain a significant share of these markets due in part to the rapidly evolving nature of the businesses within our Home Services, Health Services and Wellness Services verticals, the technology industries that support these businesses and the substantial resources available to our existing and potential competitors.
The market for technology-enabled services within these verticals is relatively new and unproven, and it is uncertain whether this market will achieve and sustain high levels of demand and market adoption.
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Some of these projects include the expansion of our integration capabilities around our vertical markets, such as field service management, EHR, PM and other solutions.
−Removed: These projects carry risks, such as cost overruns, delays in delivery, performance problems and lack of acceptance by our clients, which could adversely impact our business, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: These projects
+Added: carry risks, such as cost overruns, delays in delivery, performance problems and lack of acceptance by our clients, which could adversely impact our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Moreover, our ability to grow organically may be limited by, among other things, extensive saturation in the verticals in which we operate or a change or reduction in demand from SMBs due to changing economic conditions, strategic priorities, or otherwise.
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We have entered into agreements with certain payment processors, including Worldpay and PayPal, in order to enable our clients’ processing of credit, debit and prepaid card transactions through the card networks, such as Visa and MasterCard.
−Removed: Pursuant to these agreements with payment processors, we are registered with the card networks as an independent sales organization (“ISO”) of our
−Removed: sponsor bank(s) or as a payment facilitator(s), and are subject to the requirements of our bank sponsors, payment processors, as well as the card network rules and certain other obligations.
+Added: Pursuant to these agreements with payment processors, we are registered with the card networks as an independent sales organization (“ISO”) of our sponsor bank(s) or as a payment facilitator(s), and are subject to the requirements of our bank sponsors, payment processors, as well as the card network rules and certain other obligations.
The payment networks routinely update and modify requirements applicable to merchant acquirers (i.e., sponsor banks) which are passed through to third parties such as ISOs or payment facilitators like us, including rules regarding data integrity, third-party relationships (such as those with respect to bank sponsors and ISOs), merchant chargeback standards and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (“PCI DSS”).
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In addition, if we were precluded from allowing our clients to process Visa and MasterCard transactions, which we access through our payment processor arrangements, we would lose substantially all of our revenue.
−Removed: We are also subject to the operating rules of the National Automated Clearing House Association (“NACHA”), a self-regulatory organization which administers and facilitates private-sector operating rules for ACH payments and defines the roles and responsibilities of financial institutions and other ACH network participants.
+Added: We are also subject to the operating rules of the National Automated Clearing House Association (“NACHA”), a self-regulatory organization which administers and facilitates private-sector operating rules for ACH payments and defines the roles and
+Added: responsibilities of financial institutions and other ACH network participants.
The NACHA Rules and Operating Guidelines impose obligations on us and our partner financial institutions.
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Certain efforts may be supported by significant financial and technological resources, making them even more sophisticated and difficult to detect.
−Removed: Numerous and evolving
−Removed: cybersecurity threats, including advanced and persisting cyber-attacks, cyber-extortion, ransomware attacks, spear phishing and social engineering schemes, the introduction of computer viruses or other malware and the physical destruction of all or portions of our information technology and infrastructure could compromise the confidentiality, availability and integrity of the data in our systems.
+Added: Numerous and evolving cybersecurity threats, including advanced and persisting cyber-attacks, cyber-extortion, ransomware attacks, spear phishing and social engineering schemes, the introduction of computer viruses or other malware and the physical destruction of all or portions of our information technology and infrastructure could compromise the confidentiality, availability and integrity of the data in our systems.
Despite our efforts to create security barriers against such threats, it is virtually impossible for us to eliminate these risks entirely.
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A breach of our system or a third-party system upon which we rely may subject us to material losses or liability, including payment network fines, assessments and claims for unauthorized purchases with misappropriated credit, debit or card information, impersonation or other similar fraud claims.
−Removed: A misuse of such data or a cybersecurity breach could harm our reputation and deter our clients and potential clients from using electronic payments generally and our solutions and services specifically, thus reducing our revenue.
+Added: A misuse of such data or a
+Added: cybersecurity breach could harm our reputation and deter our clients and potential clients from using electronic payments generally and our solutions and services specifically, thus reducing our revenue.
In addition, any such misuse or breach could cause us to incur costs to correct the breaches or failures, expose us to uninsured liability, increase our risk of regulatory scrutiny, subject us to lawsuits and result in the imposition of material penalties and fines under state and federal laws or by the payment networks.
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In addition, there can be no assurance that our cybersecurity risk management program and processes, including our policies, controls or procedures, will be fully implemented, complied with or effective in protecting our systems and information.
+Added: Our use of artificial intelligence technologies may not be beneficial to our business, and may cause the performance of our products, services and business, as well as our reputation and the reputations of our customers, to suffer or cause us to incur liability resulting from the violation of laws or contracts to which we are a party.
+Added: We are developing and/or implementing artificial intelligence (“AI”), machine learning, and automated decision-making technologies (collectively, “AI Technologies”) throughout our business, and are making significant investments in this area.
+Added: We expect that increased investment will be required in the future to continuously improve our use of AI Technologies.
+Added: As with many technological innovations, there are significant risks involved in developing, maintaining and deploying these technologies and there can be no assurance that the usage of or our investments in such technologies will always enhance our products or services or be beneficial to our business, including our efficiency or profitability.
+Added: In particular, if the models underlying our AI Technologies are:
+Added: incorrectly designed or implemented;
+Added: trained or reliant on incomplete, inadequate, inaccurate, biased or otherwise poor quality data, or on data to which we do not have sufficient rights or in relation to which we and/or the providers of such data have not implemented sufficient legal compliance measures;
+Added: used without sufficient oversight and governance to ensure their responsible use;
+Added: and/or adversely impacted by unforeseen defects, technical challenges, cybersecurity threats or material performance issues, the performance of our products, services and business, as well as our reputation and the reputations of our customers, could suffer or we could incur liability resulting from the violation of laws or contracts to which we are a party or civil claims.
+Added: With respect to our products or services that incorporate AI Technology, the market for such products and services is rapidly evolving and unproven in many industries, including our own, and important assumptions about the characteristics of targeted markets, pricing, sales cycles, cost, performance, and perceived value associated with our services or products may be inaccurate.
+Added: We cannot be sure that the market will continue to grow or that it will grow in ways we anticipate.
+Added: In addition, market acceptance of products and services that incorporate AI Technology is uncertain.
+Added: Our failure to successfully develop and commercialize our products or services involving AI Technologies could depress the market price of our stock and impair our ability to:
+Added: raise capital;
+Added: expand our business;
+Added: provide, improve and diversify our product offerings;
+Added: continue our operations and efficiently manage our operating expenses;
+Added: and respond effectively to competitive developments.
+Added: We use AI Technologies licensed from third parties in our technologies and our ability to continue to use such technologies at the scale we need may be dependent on access to specific third-party software and infrastructure.
+Added: We cannot control the availability or
+Added: pricing of such third-party AI Technologies, especially in a highly competitive environment, and we may be unable to negotiate favorable economic terms with the applicable providers.
+Added: If any such third-party AI Technologies become incompatible with our solutions or unavailable for use, or if the providers of such models unfavorably change the terms on which their AI Technologies are offered or terminate their relationship with us, our solutions may become less appealing to our customers and our business will be harmed.
+Added: In addition, to the extent any third party AI Technologies are used as a hosted service, any disruption, outage, or loss of information through such hosted services could disrupt our operations or solutions, damage our reputation, cause a loss of confidence in our solutions, or result in legal claims or proceedings, for which we may be unable to recover damages from the affected provider.
Our estimated total addressable market is subject to inherent challenges and uncertainties.
If we have overestimated the size of our total addressable market or the various markets in which we operate, our future growth opportunities may be limited.
−Removed: We estimate the T AM, defined above, for our current solutions for service SMBs was approximately $1.6 trillion globally in 2023, of which approximately $662 billion was in North America, which refers to the United States and Canada.
−Removed: Of the $662 billion, we estimate a $69 billion opportunity in Home Services, a $115 billion opportunity in Health Services, a $26 billion opportunity in Fitness & Wellness Services and a $452 billion opportunity in other services categories.
+Added: We estimate the TAM, defined above, for our current solutions for service SMBs was approximately $1.6 trillion globally in 2023, of which approximately $662 billion was in North America, which refers to the United States and Canada.
+Added: Of the $662 billion, we estimate a $$69 billion opportunity in Home Services, a $115 billion opportunity in Health Services, a $22 billion opportunity in Wellness Services and a $456 billion opportunity in other services categories.
We have based our estimates on a number of internal and third-party estimates and resources, including, without limitation, third party reports and the experience of our management team across these industries.
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We have invested, and plan to continue to invest, significant resources in expanding our sales initiatives as well as our sales force focused on identifying new strategic partners.
−Removed: However, we may not achieve anticipated revenue growth from expanding our sales force if we are unable to hire, develop, integrate and retain talented and effective sales personnel, if our new and existing sales personnel are unable to achieve desired productivity levels in a reasonable period of time.
+Added: However, we may not achieve anticipated revenue growth from expanding our sales force if we are unable to hire, develop, integrate and retain talented and effective sales personnel, or if our new and existing sales personnel are unable to achieve desired productivity levels in a reasonable period of time.
We also dedicate significant resources to sales and marketing programs.
−Removed: The effectiveness and cost of our online advertising has varied over time and may vary in the future due to competition for key search terms, changes in search engine use and changes in the search algorithms and rules used by major search engines.
+Added: The effectiveness and cost of our online advertising has varied over time and may vary in the future due to competition for key search terms, changes in search engine use and changes in the
+Added: search algorithms and rules used by major search engines.
These efforts will require us to invest significant financial and other resources.
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As a result, we may be unable to retain existing clients or increase the usage of our solutions and services by them, which would have an adverse effect on our business, revenue and other operating results, and accordingly, on the trading price of our common stock.
−Removed: Our ability to sell additional functionality to our existing customers may require more sophisticated and costly sales efforts, especially for our larger customers with more senior management and established procurement functions.
+Added: Our ability to sell additional functionality to our existing customers may require more sophisticated and costly sales efforts, especially for our larger customers with more experienced management and established procurement functions.
Similarly, the rate at which our customers purchase additional solutions from us depends on several factors, including general economic conditions and the pricing of additional functionality.
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We cannot accurately predict renewal or expansion rates given the diversity of our customer base in terms of size, industry and geography.
−Removed: Our renewal and expansion rates may decline or fluctuate as a result of several factors, including consumer spending levels, client satisfaction with our solutions and services, decreases in the number of users, changes in the type and size of our customers, pricing changes, competitive conditions, the acquisition of our customers by other companies and general economic conditions.
+Added: Our renewal and expansion rates may decline or fluctuate as a result of several factors, including consumer spending levels, client satisfaction with our solutions and services, decreases in the number of users, changes in the type and
+Added: size of our customers, pricing changes, competitive conditions, the acquisition of our customers by other companies and general economic conditions.
If our customers do not renew their subscriptions, our revenue and other operating results will decline and our business will suffer.
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Any loss, change or other adverse event related to our key customer relationships could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: Impairment in the value of our goodwill or intangible assets has adversely impacted and may in the future have a material adverse effect on our operating results and financial condition.
+Added: We record goodwill and intangible assets at fair value upon the acquisition of a business.
+Added: Goodwill represents the excess of amounts paid for acquiring businesses over the fair value of the net assets acquired.
+Added: The carrying value of goodwill is evaluated for impairment at least annually, or more frequently if conditions warrant, by comparing the carrying value of a reporting unit to its estimated fair value.
+Added: Intangible assets with definite lives are reviewed for impairment whenever events or circumstances indicate that their carrying value may not be recoverable.
+Added: Declines in operating results, divestitures, sustained market declines and other factors that impact the fair value of our reporting unit has and may in the future result in an impairment of goodwill or intangible assets and, in turn, a charge to net income (loss).
+Added: These charges in the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 and any future charges have, and may in the future have a material adverse effect on our results of operations or financial condition.
+Added: During the fourth quarter 2024, in conjunction with our review of strategic alternatives for our Marketing Technology Solutions, and as a result of lower than expected financial performance and future forecasted growth rates we determined that the estimated fair value of our marketing technology solutions reporting unit was insufficient to recover the net carrying value of the reporting unit resulting in an impairment of goodwill of approximately $28.1 million.
+Added: In connection with the definitive sale and purchase agreements to sell our Fitness Solutions, we tested the goodwill balance for impairment as of March 31, 2024.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2024, we recognized $6.4 million of goodwill impairment charges representing the allocated goodwill to Fitness Solutions.
+Added: During the fourth quarter of 2023, the Company evaluated the recoverability of our fitness asset group.
+Added: As a result of our evaluation, we determined that the estimated fair value of our fitness asset group was insufficient to recover the net carrying value of the asset group resulting in an impairment charge of approximately $5.1 million during the three months ended December 31, 2023, of which $3.1 million related to intangible assets.
Our information technology systems and our third-party providers’ information technology systems, including Worldpay, PayPal and other payment processing partners, may fail, or our third-party providers may discontinue providing their services or technology generally or to us specifically, which in either case could interrupt our business, cause us to lose business and increase our costs.
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If we do not do so in a timely and cost-effective manner, the user experience and demand across our brands and businesses could be adversely affected, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Our information technology systems and operations or those of our third-party technology vendors could be exposed to damage or interruption from, among other things, fire, extreme weather events (including floods, storms, droughts and extreme temperatures) and other natural disasters, power loss, telecommunications failure, unauthorized entry, computer viruses, denial-of-service attacks, acts of terrorism, human error, vandalism or sabotage, financial insolvency and similar events.
+Added: Our information technology systems and operations or those of our third-party technology vendors could be exposed to damage or interruption from, among other things, fire, extreme weather events (including floods, storms, droughts and extreme temperatures) and other natural disasters, power loss, telecommunications failure, unauthorized entry, computer viruses, denial-of-service attacks, acts of
+Added: terrorism, human error, vandalism or sabotage, financial insolvency and similar events.
Extreme weather events, changing water levels, as well as changes in ambient temperature and precipitation patterns, may become more frequent or severe as a result of climate change.
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If we are unable to improve our margin, in particular within Marketing Technology Solutions, we may experience lower aggregate profitability and margins.
−Removed: While we have experienced significant revenue growth across our offering of solutions and services, certain solutions and services, such as our Marketing Technology Solutions, have lower margins as compared to our subscription and transaction fee services, such
−Removed: as our vertical Business Management Software and integrated payment solutions.
+Added: While we have experienced significant revenue growth across our offering of solutions and services, certain solutions and services, such as our Marketing Technology Solutions, have lower margins as compared to our subscription and transaction fee services, such as our vertical Business Management Software and integrated payment solutions.
For the year ended December 31, 2024, subscription and transaction fees and Marketing Technology Solutions generated 78.5% and 18.5%, respectively, of our total revenues.
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A future pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of an infectious disease could impact, our business, financial condition and results of operations, as well as the business or operations of third parties with whom we conduct business.
−Removed: COVID-19 and the related health concerns relating to the outbreak significantly increased economic uncertainty and has caused economies, businesses, markets and communities around the globe to be disrupted, and in many cases, shut-down.
−Removed: Measures to control the spread of the disease also negatively impacted SMBs, including consumer spending and business spending habits, and adversely impacted our workforce and operations and the operations of our customers across industries and markets.
−Removed: Measures to contain COVID-19 outbreaks may be reinstated, causing similar adverse impacts.
+Added: Potential future pandemics, epidemics or outbreaks of infectious disease may cause significant economic and financial market uncertainty and disruption and measures to contain infection may negatively impact SMBs and our operations.
+Added: To the extent a pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of an infectious disease adversely affects our business, financial condition and results of operations, it may also have the effect of heightening many of the other risks described in this “Risk Factors” section.
Conversely, pandemics, epidemics and outbreaks may significantly and temporarily increase demand in certain industries and markets in which we operate.
For example, COVID-19 generally increased demand for, and utilization of, telehealth services, and increased demand from customers shifting to technology-focused, digital-first business models.
−Removed: While such increases may help to offset the decline of business and demand in other industries, there can be no assurance that these levels of interest, demand and use will continue at current levels or will not decrease in the future.
−Removed: Federal and state budget shortfalls could lead to potential reductions in funding for Medicare and Medicaid.
+Added: While such increases may help to offset the decline of business and demand in other industries, there can be no assurance that these levels of interest, demand and use will be similar in any future public health crisis.
+Added: Federal and state budget shortfalls as a result of a public health crisis could lead to potential reductions in funding for Medicare and Medicaid.
Further reductions in reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid could lead to our Health Services customers postponing expenditures on information technology and related services.
−Removed: It is possible that the increase in remote or hybrid work arrangements stemming from COVID-19 may also result in consumer and patient privacy, IT security and fraud risks.
−Removed: Further, a pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of an infectious disease may in the future result in, significant disruption of global financial markets, which could result in a reduction in our ability to access capital that could adversely affect our liquidity.
−Removed: The full extent to which a pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of an infectious disease will impact our business, results of operations and financial condition is still unknown and will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted.
−Removed: To the extent a pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of an infectious disease adversely affects our business, financial condition and results of operations, it may also have the effect of heightening many of the other risks described in this “ Risk Factors ” section.
+Added: It is possible that the increased prevalence of remote or hybrid work arrangements may also result in consumer and patient privacy, IT security and fraud risks.
We are subject to economic and political risk, the business cycles of our clients and changes in the overall level of consumer and commercial spending, which could negatively impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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In addition, due to these conditions, many of our competitors may be more inclined to take greater or unusual risks or accept terms and conditions in contracts that we might not deem acceptable.
−Removed: These conditions and factors may reduce
−Removed: the demand for our services and solutions, and more generally may adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: These conditions and factors may reduce the demand for our services and solutions, and more generally may adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: Similarly, new and changing laws, regulations, executive orders and enforcement priorities can also create uncertainty about how such laws and regulations will be interpreted and applied, which may decrease customer spending and increase our costs.
A weakening in the economy could have a negative impact on our customers, as well as the customers they serve who purchase solutions and services using the payment processing systems to which we provide access, which could, in turn, negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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General inflation, including wage inflation, increases in interest rates, currency volatility as well as monetary, fiscal and policy interventions by national or regional governments in anticipation of or reaction to such events could have negative impacts on our business by increasing our operating costs and our borrowing costs as well as decreasing the capital available for our customers to purchase our solutions and services or the levels of cash we maintain for working capital.
+Added: The change in the United States presidential administration may result in economic volatility or other consequences that adversely impact SMBs or consumer spending and consequently negatively impact our business and results of operations.
We currently manage our exchange rate and interest rate risk using hedging instruments.
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Our success depends in part upon the reputation and influence within the industry of our senior managers who have, over the years, developed long standing and favorable relationships with our vendors, card associations, bank sponsors and other payment processing and service providers.
−Removed: Each of our executive officers and other key employees may terminate his or her relationship with us at any time and the loss of the services of one or a combination of our senior executives or members of our senior management team, including our Chief Executive Officer, Eric Remer, our President, Matthew Feierstein and our Chief Financial Officer, Marc Thompson, may significantly delay or prevent the achievement of our business or development objectives and could materially harm our business.
−Removed: Further, contractual obligations related to confidentiality and assignment of intellectual property rights may be ineffective or unenforceable, and departing employees may share our proprietary information with competitors in ways that could adversely impact us.
+Added: Each of our executive officers and other key employees may terminate his or her relationship with us at any time and the loss of the services of one or a combination of our senior executives or members of our senior management team, including our Chief Executive Officer, Eric Remer, our President, Matthew Feierstein and our Chief Financial Officer, Ryan Siurek, may significantly delay or prevent the achievement of our business or development objectives and could materially harm our business.
+Added: Further, contractual
+Added: obligations related to confidentiality and assignment of intellectual property rights may be ineffective or unenforceable, and departing employees may share our proprietary information with competitors in ways that could adversely impact us.
In addition, certain senior management personnel are substantially vested in their stock option grants or other equity compensation.
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While we will endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in any particular acquisition candidate, there can be no assurance that we will adequately ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors to such new markets, industries or services.
−Removed: Even if we are able to complete acquisitions and other investments, such activities may not ultimately strengthen our competitive position or achieve our strategic goals and could be viewed negatively by existing or prospective customers, investors or other stakeholders.
+Added: Even if we are able to complete acquisitions and other investments, such activities may not ultimately strengthen our competitive position or achieve our strategic goals and could be viewed negatively by existing or prospective customers, investors or other
+Added: stakeholders.
We may not realize the anticipated benefits of any or all of our acquisitions or other investments in the time frame expected or at all.
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In addition, we may pursue dispositions and other strategic transactions, which could be material.
+Added: For example, we have announced a strategic review of our Marketing Technology Solutions, which may not result in a successful sale or other dispositions.
Dispositions and other strategic transactions may not have the anticipated impact on our business, may negatively impact revenues and may make it difficult to generate cash flows to meet our cash requirements.
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There can be no assurance that our business will be able to generate sufficient cash flow from operations or that future borrowings or other financing will be available to us in an amount sufficient to enable us to service our debt and fund our other liquidity needs.
−Removed: To the extent we are required to use our cash flow from operations or the proceeds of any future financing to service our debt instead of funding working capital, capital expenditures, acquisition activity or other general corporate purposes, we will be less able to plan for, or react to, changes in our business, industry and in the economy generally.
+Added: To the extent we are required to use our cash flow from operations or the proceeds of any future financing to service our debt instead of funding working capital, capital
+Added: expenditures, acquisition activity or other general corporate purposes, we will be less able to plan for, or react to, changes in our business, industry and in the economy generally.
This will place us at a competitive disadvantage compared to our competitors that have less debt.
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As a result of being a public company, we are obligated to develop and maintain proper and effective internal control over financial reporting, and if we fail to develop and maintain an effective system of disclosure controls and internal control over financial reporting, our ability to produce timely and accurate financial statements or comply with applicable laws and regulations could be impaired.
−Removed: As a public company, we are subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”), the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, the listing requirements of The Nasdaq Stock Market and other applicable securities rules and regulations.
+Added: As a public company, we are subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”), the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the “Dodd-Frank Act”), the listing requirements of The Nasdaq Stock Market and other applicable securities rules and regulations.
Compliance with these rules and regulations has increased and will continue to increase our legal and financial compliance costs, make some activities more difficult, time consuming, or costly, and increase demand on our systems and resources, particularly after we are no longer an emerging growth company.
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Ineffective internal controls could also cause investors to lose confidence in our reported financial information, which could have a negative effect on the trading price of our common stock.
−Removed: This assessment includes disclosure of any material weaknesses identified by our management in our internal control over financial reporting, as well as a statement that our independent registered public accounting firm has issued an opinion on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, provided that our independent registered public accounting firm will not be required to attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting until our first annual report required to be filed with the SEC following the date (i) we are either an “accelerated filer” or a “large accelerated filer,” each as defined in the Exchange Act, and (ii) we are no longer an emerging growth company, as defined in the JOBS Act.
+Added: This assessment includes disclosure of any material weaknesses identified by our management in our internal control over financial reporting, as well as a statement that our independent registered public accounting firm has issued an opinion on the effectiveness of
+Added: our internal control over financial reporting, provided that our independent registered public accounting firm will not be required to attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting until our first annual report required to be filed with the SEC following the date (i) we are either an “accelerated filer” or a “large accelerated filer,” each as defined in the Exchange Act, and (ii) we are no longer an emerging growth company, as defined in the JOBS Act.
We could be an emerging growth company for up to five years.
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To comply with the requirements of being a public company, we may need to undertake various actions, such as implementing new internal controls and procedures and hiring accounting or internal audit staff.
−Removed: We identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023, as described in Part II, Item 9A.
+Added: We identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023 that has not been remediated as of December 31, 2024, as described in Part II, Item 9A.
The material weakness identified in this Annual Report on Form 10-K relates to the lack of properly designed controls over certain of our order to cash revenue accounting processes.
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There can be no assurance that our business or operations will not be challenged or impacted by enforcement initiatives.
−Removed: The increasing focus on environmental sustainability and social initiatives could increase our costs, harm our reputation and adversely impact our financial results.
−Removed: There has been increasing public focus by investors, customers environmental activists, the media and governmental and nongovernmental organizations on a variety of environmental, social and other sustainability (“ESG”) matters.
−Removed: In addition, certain financial institutions, including banks and insurance companies, have made commitments regarding ESG matters that they may pass on to those they provide capital to.
−Removed: These and other expectations regarding ESG initiatives and disclosures may result in increased costs, compliance or disclosure obligations, or other impacts to our business, financial condition, or results of operations.
−Removed: While we may, from time to time, engage in certain voluntary initiatives (which may include disclosures, policies, and targets, among others) to improve the ESG profile of our operations and/or products or respond to stakeholder considers, such initiatives may be
−Removed: costly and may not have the desired effect.
+Added: Scrutiny on environmental sustainability and social initiatives could increase our costs, harm our reputation and adversely impact our financial results.
+Added: Companies are subject to scrutiny by multiple stakeholders on climate change, human capital management, and a variety of other environmental, social and other sustainability (“ESG”) matters.
+Added: Expectations regarding ESG initiatives and disclosures may result in increased costs, compliance or disclosure obligations, or other impacts to our business, financial condition, or results of operations.
+Added: While we may, from time to time, engage in certain voluntary initiatives (which may include disclosures, policies, and targets, among others) to improve the ESG profile of our operations and/or products or respond to stakeholder considers, such initiatives may be costly and may not have the desired effect.
Expectations around companies’ management of ESG matters continues to evolve rapidly, in many instances due to factors that are out of our control.
−Removed: In particular, we may make statements or actions based on various frameworks, methodologies, or data that we believe to be reasonable but which may ultimately determined to be erroneous or inconsistent with future regulatory requirements or best practices.
+Added: In particular, we may make statements or actions based on various frameworks, methodologies, or data that we believe to be reasonable but which may ultimately be determined to be erroneous or inconsistent with future regulatory requirements or best practices.
Even if this is not the case, our current actions may subsequently be determined to be insufficient or not aligned to best practices by various stakeholders.
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In addition, this emphasis on ESG matters has resulted and may result in the adoption of new laws and regulations, including new reporting requirements.
−Removed: For example, various policymakers, such as the SEC and State of California, have adopted (or are considering adopting) requirements for companies to provide significantly expanded disclosures on climate, and in some instances other ESG topics.
−Removed: Additionally, the Biden Administration has proposed several potential revisions to the Federal Acquisition Regulation regarding sustainable procurement as well as the climate-related performance of their suppliers.
−Removed: Compliance with environmental, social and other sustainability laws, regulations, expectations or reporting requirements may result in increased compliance costs, including the implementation of new internal control processes, as well as additional scrutiny that could heighten all of the risks associated with ESG matters.
+Added: For example, various policymakers, such as the SEC, European Union and State of California, have adopted (or are considering adopting) requirements for companies to provide significantly expanded disclosures on, or take other actions regarding climate and/or other ESG topics.
+Added: These requirements are not uniform across jurisdictions, and may be inconsistently applied, which can increase the complexity and cost of compliance, and increase the risk of enforcement or litigation relating to our ESG disclosures and initiatives.
Moreover, some investors and financial institutions use ESG or sustainability scores, ratings or benchmarks to make financing, investment and voting decisions.
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This and other stakeholder expectations will likely lead to increased costs as well as scrutiny that could heighten all of the risks identified in this risk factor.
−Removed: Such ESG matters may also impact our suppliers, customers, and business partners, which may compound or cause new impacts on our business, financial condition, or results of operations.
+Added: Such ESG matters may also impact our suppliers, customers, capital providers, and other stakeholders, which may compound or cause new impacts on our business, financial condition, or results of operations.
Risks Related to Intellectual Property
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Third parties may challenge, invalidate, circumvent, infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate our intellectual property or the intellectual property of our third-party licensors, and any of these claims or actions may result in restrictions on our use of our intellectual property or the conduct of our business.
−Removed: Our intellectual property may not be sufficient to permit us to take advantage of current market trends or otherwise to provide competitive advantages, which could result in costly redesign efforts, discontinuance of certain service offerings or other competitive harm.
+Added: Our intellectual property may not be sufficient to permit us to take advantage of current market trends or otherwise to provide competitive advantages, which could result in costly redesign efforts, discontinuance of certain service offerings or other
+Added: competitive harm.
Others, including our competitors, may independently develop similar technology, duplicate our solutions and services, design around or reverse engineer our intellectual property, and in such cases neither we nor our third-party licensors may be able to assert intellectual property rights against such parties.
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Companies that use open source software in connection with their products have, from time to time, faced claims challenging the use of open source software and/or compliance with open source license terms.
−Removed: As a result, we could be subject to suits by parties claiming ownership of what we believe to be open source software or claiming noncompliance with open source licensing terms.
+Added: result, we could be subject to suits by parties claiming ownership of what we believe to be open source software or claiming noncompliance with open source licensing terms.
Some open source software licenses require users who distribute software containing or linked to open source software to publicly disclose all or part of the source code to such software and/or make available any derivative works of the open source code, which could include valuable proprietary code of the user, on unfavorable terms or at no cost.
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For example, open source software is generally provided without any support or warranties or other contractual protections regarding infringement or the quality of the code, including the existence of security vulnerabilities.
−Removed: To the extent that our platform depends upon the successful operation of open source software, any undetected errors or defects in open source software that we use could prevent the deployment or impair the functionality of our systems and injure our
+Added: To the extent that our platform depends upon the successful operation of open source software, any undetected errors or defects in open source software that we use could prevent the deployment or impair the functionality of our systems and injure our reputation.
In addition, the public availability of such software may make it easier for others to compromise our platform.
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At the state level, lawmakers continue to pass new laws concerning privacy and data security.
−Removed: For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”), introduces significant disclosure obligations and provides California consumers with significant privacy rights.
−Removed: The CCPA provides for civil penalties for violations, as well as a private right of action for data breaches that has increased the likelihood, and risks associated with data breach litigation.
−Removed: We have been and will continue to be required to expend resources to comply with the CCPA.
−Removed: Further, the California Privacy Rights Act (the “CPRA”), which generally went into effect on January 1, 2023, significantly modifies the CCPA, including by expanding consumers’ rights with respect to certain personal information and creating a new state agency to oversee implementation and enforcement efforts.
+Added: For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively, the “CCPA”) requires covered businesses that process the personal information of California residents to, among other things:
+Added: (i) provide certain disclosures to California residents regarding the business’s collection, use, and disclosure of their personal information;
+Added: (ii) receive and respond to requests from California residents to access, delete, and correct their personal information, or to opt out of certain disclosures of their personal information;
+Added: and (iii) enter into specific contractual provisions with service providers that process California resident personal information on the business’s behalf.
Similar laws have passed in other states, and are continuing to be proposed at the state and federal level.
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Additionally, if we or our subcontractor business associates fail to comply with HIPAA or contractual requirements, or are otherwise involved in a HIPAA data breach, we may face significant fines and penalties, ongoing compliance requirements, reputational harm, contractual reimbursement, recoupment or other obligations, FTC enforcement actions and private litigation brought by impacted individuals.
+Added: Furthermore, the FTC and many state Attorneys General continue to enforce federal and state consumer protection laws against companies for online collection, use, dissemination and security practices that appear to be unfair or deceptive.
+Added: The FTC has authority to initiate enforcement actions against entities that make deceptive statements about privacy and data sharing in privacy policies, fail to limit third-party use of personal health information, fail to implement policies to protect personal health information or engage in other unfair practices that harm customers.
+Added: For example, according to the FTC, failing to take appropriate steps to keep consumers’ personal information secure can constitute unfair acts or practices in or affecting commerce in violation of Section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act.
+Added: The FTC expects a company’s data security measures to be reasonable and appropriate in light of the sensitivity and volume of consumer information it holds, the size and complexity of its business, and the cost of available tools to improve security and reduce vulnerabilities.
+Added: Additionally, federal and state consumer protection laws are increasingly being applied by FTC and state Attorneys General to regulate the collection, use, storage, and disclosure of personal information, through websites or otherwise, and to regulate the presentation of website content.
Outside of the United States, many jurisdictions have laws or regulations dealing with the collection, use, sharing, or other processing of personal information, including laws in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), Canada, Middle East, Australia and South America.
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Among other requirements, the GDPR regulates transfers of personal data subject to the GDPR to third countries that have not been found to provide adequate protection to such personal data, including the United States, and the efficacy and longevity of current transfer mechanisms between the EEA, and the United States remains uncertain.
+Added: Case law from the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) states that reliance on the standard contractual clauses - a standard form of contract approved by the European Commission as an adequate personal data transfer mechanism - alone may not necessarily be sufficient in all circumstances and that transfers must be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
We expect the existing legal complexity and uncertainty regarding international personal data transfers to continue.
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Moreover, if future laws and regulations limit our customers and users’ ability to use and share personal information or our ability to store, process and share personal information, demand for our solutions could decrease, our costs could increase, and our business, results of operations and financial condition could be harmed.
+Added: The regulatory framework governing the use of AI Technologies is rapidly evolving, and we cannot predict how future legislation and regulation will impact our ability to offer products or services that we develop which leverage AI Technologies.
+Added: We use AI Technologies throughout our business and are making significant investments in this area.
+Added: The regulatory framework for AI Technologies is rapidly evolving as many federal, state and foreign government bodies and agencies have introduced or are currently considering additional laws and regulations.
+Added: Additionally, existing laws and regulations may be interpreted in ways that would affect the operation of our AI Technologies.
+Added: As a result, implementation standards and enforcement practices are likely to remain uncertain for the foreseeable future, and we cannot yet determine the impact future laws, regulations, or standards may have on our business and may not always be able to anticipate how to respond to these laws or regulations.
+Added: Already, certain existing legal regimes (e.g., relating to data privacy) regulate certain aspects of AI Technologies, and new laws regulating AI Technologies are expected to enter into force in the United States and the EU in 2024.
+Added: In the United States, the Biden administration issued a broad Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (the “2023 AI Order”) that sets out principles intended to guide AI design and deployment for the public and private sector and signals the increase in governmental involvement and regulation over AI Technologies.
+Added: The 2023 AI Order established certain new requirements for the training, testing and cybersecurity of sophisticated AI models and large-scale compute centers used to train AI models.
+Added: The 2023 AI Order also instructed several other federal agencies to promulgate additional regulations within specific
+Added: timeframes from the date of the 2023 AI Order regarding the use and development of AI Technologies.
+Added: Legislation related to AI Technologies has also been introduced at the federal level and is advancing at the state level.
+Added: In Europe, on May 21, 2024, the European Union legislators approved the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (the “EU AI Act”), which establishes a comprehensive, risk-based governance framework for AI in the EU market.
+Added: The EU AI Act, as well as developing interpretation and application of the GDPR in respect of automated decision making, together with developing guidance and/or decisions in this area, may affect our use of AI Technologies and our ability to provide, improve or commercialize our services, require additional compliance measures and changes to our operations and processes, and result in increased compliance costs and potential increases in civil claims against us, and could adversely affect our business, operations and financial condition.
+Added: It is possible that further new laws and regulations will be adopted in the United States and in other non-U.S.
+Added: jurisdictions, or that existing laws and regulations, including competition and antitrust laws, may be interpreted in ways that would limit our ability to use AI Technologies for our business, or require us to change the way we use AI Technologies in a manner that negatively affects the performance of our products, services, and business and the way in which we use AI Technologies.
+Added: We may need to expend resources to adjust our products or services in certain jurisdictions if the laws, regulations, or decisions are not consistent across jurisdictions.
+Added: Further, the cost to comply with such laws, regulations, or decisions and/or guidance interpreting existing laws could be significant and would increase our operating expenses (such as by imposing additional reporting obligations regarding our use of AI Technologies).
+Added: Such an increase in operating expenses, as well as any actual or perceived failure to comply with such laws and regulations, could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Through our relationships with third parties, including payment processors such as Worldpay, we must comply with certain laws.
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Our governmental entity clients periodically review our compliance with their contracts and our performance under the terms of such contracts.
−Removed: If we fail to comply with these contracts, laws and regulations, we may also suffer harm to our reputation, which could impair our ability to win awards of contracts in the future or receive renewals of existing contracts.
+Added: If we fail to comply with these contracts, laws and
+Added: regulations, we may also suffer harm to our reputation, which could impair our ability to win awards of contracts in the future or receive renewals of existing contracts.
Our sending of commercial emails and text messages and certain other telephonic services must comply with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and future legislation, regulatory actions, or litigation could adversely affect our business.
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Information Blocking and Interoperability Rules .
−Removed: Federal rules implementing the 21st Century Cures Act require developers of certified EHRs and health IT products to adopt standardized application programming interfaces, which will help allow individuals to securely and easily access structured and unstructured electronic health information formats using smartphones and other mobile devices.
+Added: Federal rules implementing the 21st Century Cures Act require developers of certified EHRs and health IT products to adopt standardized application programming interfaces, which help individuals to securely and easily access structured and unstructured electronic health information formats using smartphones and other mobile devices.
These rules create a potentially lengthy list of certification and maintenance of certification requirements that developers of EHRs and other health IT products must meet in order to maintain approved federal government certification status.
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• general economic conditions in the United States;
−Removed: • other events or factors, including those resulting from war (including the ongoing war in Ukraine), pandemics (including COVID-19), incidents of terrorism or responses to these events;
+Added: • other events or factors, including those resulting from war (including the ongoing war in Ukraine), pandemics or other public health crises, incidents of terrorism or responses to these events;
• the other factors described in this “Risk Factors” section of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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We have agreed to nominate to our board of directors individuals designated by Providence Strategic Growth and Silver Lake in accordance with the sponsor stockholders agreement.
−Removed: Providence Strategic Growth and Silver Lake will each retain the right to designate directors for so long as they beneficially own at least 5% of the aggregate number of shares of common stock outstanding.
−Removed: In addition, for so long as Providence Strategic Growth and Silver Lake collectively beneficially own at least 30% of the aggregate number of shares of common stock outstanding, certain actions by us or any of our subsidiaries will require the prior written consent of each of Providence Strategic Growth and Silver Lake so long as such stockholder is entitled to designate at least two (2) directors for nomination to our board of directors.
−Removed: The actions that will require prior written consent include:
+Added: Providence Strategic Growth and Silver Lake each retain the right to designate directors for so long as they beneficially own at least 5% of the aggregate number of shares of common stock outstanding.
+Added: In addition, for so long as Providence Strategic Growth and Silver Lake collectively beneficially own at least 30% of the aggregate number of shares of common stock outstanding, certain actions by us or any of our subsidiaries require the prior written consent of each of Providence Strategic Growth and Silver Lake so long as such stockholder is entitled to designate at least two (2) directors for nomination to our board of directors.
+Added: The actions that require prior written consent include:
(i) change in control transactions, (ii) acquiring or disposing of assets or any business enterprise or division thereof for consideration in excess of $500.0 million in any single transaction or series of transactions, (iii) increasing or decreasing the size of our board of directors, (iv) terminating the employment of our chief executive officer or hiring a new chief executive officer, (v) initiating any liquidation, dissolution, bankruptcy or other insolvency proceeding involving us or any of our significant subsidiaries and (vi) any transfer, issue, issuance, sale or disposition of any shares of common stock, other equity securities, equity-linked securities or securities that are convertible into equity securities of us or our subsidiaries to any person or entity that is a non-strategic financial investor in a private placement transaction or series of transactions.
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In addition, pursuant to the sponsor stockholder agreement, we are generally required to obtain the prior written consent of the parties to our sponsor stockholders agreement before we or our subsidiaries undertake certain actions.
−Removed: Accordingly, for such period of time, the parties to our sponsor stockholders agreement will have significant influence with respect to our management, business plans and policies.
+Added: Accordingly, for such period of time, the parties to our sponsor stockholders agreement have significant influence with respect to our management, business plans and policies.
In particular, for so long as the parties to our sponsor stockholders agreement continue to own a significant percentage of our stock, the parties to such agreement may be able to cause or prevent a change of control of our Company or a change in the composition of our board of directors, and could preclude any unsolicited acquisition of our Company.
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The sale by the parties to our stockholders agreements of a substantial number of shares, or a perception that such sales could occur, could significantly reduce the market price of our common stock.
−Removed: Shares of our common stock offered in our initial public offering are freely tradable without restriction, assuming they are not held by our affiliates.
We filed registration statements on Form S-8 registering under the Securities Act the shares of our common stock reserved for issuance under our incentive plan.
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Certain affiliates of Providence Strategic Growth and Silver Lake own approximately 83.0% of our common stock and are parties, among others, to the sponsor stockholders agreement.
−Removed: The parties to the sponsor stockholders agreement have agreed to vote, or cause to vote, all of their outstanding shares of our common stock at any annual or special meeting of stockholders in which directors are elected, so as to cause the election of the directors nominees designated by each party.
+Added: The parties to the sponsor stockholders agreement have agreed to vote, or cause to vote, all of their outstanding shares of our common stock at any annual or special meeting of stockholders in which directors are elected, so as to cause the election of the director nominees designated by each party.
As a result, we are a “controlled company” within the meaning of the corporate governance standards of the rules of The Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”).
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• the requirement that it have a compensation committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee’s purpose and responsibilities.
−Removed: We do not intend to rely on all of these exemptions.
−Removed: However, as long as we remain a “controlled company,” we may elect in the future to take advantage of any of these exemptions.
+Added: We rely on certain of the exemptions, namely the requirement that director nominations be made, or recommended, by the independent directors or by a nominations committee comprised entirely of independent directors.
+Added: As long as we remain a “controlled company,” we may elect in the future to take advantage of any of these exemptions.
As a result of any such election, our board of directors would not have a majority of independent directors, our compensation committee would not consist entirely of independent directors and our directors would not be nominated or selected by independent directors.
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In addition, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, as well as rules subsequently adopted by the SEC and Nasdaq to implement provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, impose significant requirements on public companies, including requiring establishment and maintenance of effective disclosure and financial controls and changes in corporate governance practices.
−Removed: Further, in July 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”) was enacted.
−Removed: There are significant corporate governance and executive compensation related provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act that require the SEC to adopt additional rules and regulations in these areas such as “say on pay” and proxy access.
+Added: Further, the Dodd-Frank Act contains significant corporate governance and executive compensation related provisions that require the SEC to adopt additional rules and regulations in these areas such as “say on pay” and proxy access.
Emerging growth companies are permitted to implement many of these requirements over a longer period and up to five years from the IPO.
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As a public company, we may be subject to proceedings across a variety of matters, including matters involving stockholder class actions, tax audits, unclaimed property audits and related matters, employment and others.
−Removed: For example, on January 31, 2024 plaintiff Vladimir Gusinsky Revocable Trust filed a putative class action lawsuit in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware against the Company, members of its Board of Directors (the “Board”) and the other parties to its sponsor stockholders agreement, dated June 30, 2021, Providence Strategic Growth II L.P., Providence Strategic Growth II-A L.P., SLA Eclipse Co-Invest, L.P., and SLA CM Eclipse Holdings, L.P.
+Added: For example, on January 31, 2024 plaintiff Vladimir Gusinsky Revocable Trust filed a putative class action lawsuit in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware against the Company, members of its Board of Directors (the “Board”) and the other parties to its sponsor stockholders agreement, dated June 30, 2021, Providence Strategic Growth II L.P., Providence Strategic Growth II-A L.P., Providence Strategic Growth III L.P., SLA Eclipse Co-Invest, L.P., and SLA CM Eclipse Holdings, L.P.
(collectively, the “Sponsor Stockholders”), captioned Vladimir Gusinsky Revocable Trust v.
−Removed: [Eric Remer, Penny Balwdin, et.
al , Case No.
−Removed: 2024-0077 (Del Ch.).
−Removed: The complaint generally alleges violations of Section 141(a) of the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”) by providing the Sponsor Stockholders with a veto right over the Board’s ability to hire or fire the Company’s Chief Executive Officer (the “CEO Approval Right”) on the basis that it unlawfully limits the Board’s authority to manage the business and affairs of the Company.
−Removed: The plaintiff seeks declaratory judgment that the CEO Approval Right is invalid and void, other declaratory and equitable relief for the class and/or the Company, attorneys’ and experts’ witness fees and other costs and expenses, and other equitable relief.
+Added: 2024-0077-PAF (Del Ch.).
+Added: The complaint generally alleges violations of Section 141(a) of the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”) by providing the Sponsor Stockholders with an approval right over the Board’s ability to hire or fire the Company’s Chief Executive Officer (the “CEO Approval Right”) on the basis that it unlawfully limits the Board’s authority to manage the business and affairs of the Company.
+Added: The plaintiff seeks declaratory judgment that the CEO Approval Right is invalid and void, and other declaratory and equitable relief for the class and/or the Company including attorneys’ and experts’ witness fees and other costs and expenses.
+Added: On June 14, 2024, the Company filed its opening brief in support of its Motion to Dismiss, and on July 15, 2024, Plaintiff opposed that motion.
+Added: On July 16, 2024, the court entered a stipulation and order dismissing the director defendants from the action.
+Added: On August 29, 2024, the remaining defendants, the Company and Sponsor Stockholders (collectively, “Defendants”), filed their reply in support of the Motion to Dismiss, and pursuant to a stipulation between the parties, Plaintiff filed a sur-reply on September 26, 2024, which Defendants filed a response to on October 10, 2024.
+Added: On October 15, 2024, Defendants filed a Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction, arguing that the claims alleged are not ripe for adjudication and on November 15, 2024 Plaintiff opposed that motion.
+Added: On December 9, 2024, Defendants filed their reply in support of the Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction.
+Added: On January 3, 2025, the Court entered a minute order deferring oral argument on the pending Motion to Dismiss until after the disposition of the appeal in Moelis & Company v.
+Added: West Palm Beach Firefighters’ Pension Fund , Case No.
+Added: 340, 2024 (Del.
The outcome of litigation and other legal proceedings and the magnitude of potential losses therefrom, particularly class action lawsuits and regulatory actions, is difficult to assess or quantify.
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Further, any changes in the taxation of our activities, may increase our effective tax rate and adversely affect our financial position and results of operations.
−Removed: For example, the United States government may enact significant changes to the taxation of business entities (such as the 2022 United States Inflation Reduction Act which, among other changes, introduced a 15% corporate minimum tax on certain United States corporations and a 1% excise tax on certain stock redemptions by
−Removed: United States corporations).
+Added: For example, the United States government may enact significant changes to the taxation of business entities (such as the 2022 United States Inflation Reduction Act which, among other changes, introduced a 15% corporate minimum tax on certain United States corporations and a 1% excise tax on certain stock redemptions by United States corporations).
We are unable to predict what tax reforms may be proposed or enacted in the future or what effect such changes would on our business.
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