Item 1. Business
Item 1. Business
Overview
Planet’s mission is to use space to help life on Earth, by imaging the world every day and making global change visible, accessible, and actionable.
What: We image the Earth every day at medium- and high-resolution. We collect this powerful data set from the hundreds of satellites we have in orbit, making our fleet the largest fleet of Earth observation satellites in history, which we design, build, and operate. We have collected over 3,000 images on average for every point on Earth’s landmass, creating a non-replicable historical archive for analytics, machine learning, and insights.
Why: Our satellite data and analytics reveal actionable insights regarding a large array of important phenomena, such as deforestation, agriculture, climate change, biodiversity, and supply chains worldwide. Our daily stream of proprietary data and machine learning analytics, delivered over our cloud-native platform, helps companies, governments and civil society use satellite imagery to discover insights as change happens.
Who: We currently serve customers across large commercial and government verticals, including agriculture, mapping, energy, forestry, finance and insurance, as well as federal, civil, state, and local governments. Our customers in government and commercial markets leverage our product capabilities to monitor and manage global change over broad areas to take action.
How: Our customers can embed our Earth data and change detection capabilities into their workflows to better inform their decision-making processes. Our historical archive of global, daily imagery data enables back-testing of predictive analytics, which is particularly relevant for time-series forecasting, an important area in machine learning.
We generate revenue primarily by selling licenses to our data and analytics to customers over a cloud-based platform via fixed price subscription and usage-based contracts. Most of our revenue is recurring in nature. We use a “one-to-many” data subscription model, as each image we capture can be sold and leveraged for analytics an unlimited number of times. We believe this is different from legacy Earth observation providers that sell individual images exclusively to a single customer.
Public Benefit: Our business model is aligned with our mission and public benefit purpose: to accelerate humanity toward a more sustainable, secure and prosperous world by illuminating environmental and social change. We are dedicated to the continuous pursuit of creating an unbiased, scientifically accurate, and trusted source of data about the changing planet.
Industry Trends
We believe that the increasing call for global peace and security, as well as the digital and sustainability transformations of the global economy, are fueling a need for a greater volume of and more rapidly delivered Earth observation data. We believe that we can accelerate this transformation by providing valuable Earth data that businesses and governments can utilize to better measure and monitor change in physical assets.
Peace & Security: Organizations such as governments, Non-Governmental Organizations (“NGOs”), media and think tanks are tackling increasingly complex global challenges on a daily basis. We believe that our satellite imagery, satellite hardware development capabilities, and tools can help enable unbiased, factual, and timely reporting and decision making by governments, NGOs, media and think tanks. Further, we believe the data from space that we provide is critical to global transparency and to encourage peace and security.
Sustainability Transformation: Organizations globally are focused on proactively managing their environmental impact and operating more sustainably. While regulations overseeing environmental impact and sustainability are
2
Table of Contents
subject to policy makers’ priorities in each country or region, we believe the shift toward monitoring and managing environmental outcomes and responding to natural disasters will continue; and that satellite imagery and capabilities are a critical component of effective and broad-scale sustainability solutions.
Digital Transformation: Organizations across industries are driving operational improvements and taking advantage of new growth opportunities by leveraging third-party data, their own proprietary data, and artificial intelligence technologies, including generative artificial intelligence technology (“GenAI”) and large language models (LLMs) (collectively, “AI”), all of which are driving a digital economic shift across many sectors. In addition, as more organizations digitize their workflows, it is increasingly important to deliver solutions that are cloud-native to take advantage of the cost savings and scale derived from cloud technologies.
Overall, we believe these transformational shifts are driving demand for near real-time understanding of the impact of global changes across the Earth. The first step for organizations undergoing the digital and sustainability transformations, as well as those seeking to establish and maintain peace and security, is to understand context and consistently measure and monitor relevant data. With shared context and metrics, we believe that businesses and governments can improve operational efficiency, resource allocation, risk mitigation, and strategic decision making with data-enabled applications.
Our Opportunity
Our founding team built Planet on the concept of “agile aerospace” methodology: the rapid development and deployment of new space-based hardware and related software systems, similar to the “agile software” approach of releasing early and often to rapidly iterate capabilities. By harnessing trends in miniaturization, we have built, launched, and maintained hundreds of compact, powerful satellites at a significantly lower cost than traditional aerospace companies, an improvement that we believe is similar to the transition from the mainframe computer to the desktop computer. This has enabled us to leverage industry innovations in AI, computing, and cloud-based storage to house and analyze a distinctive data set of daily Earth changes, and to build market-leading tools to help customers and partners extract value from those data sets. Our innovation in agile aerospace has also enabled us to improve the cost-performance of satellite manufacturing, ground stations, and mission operations.
Our extensive Earth data set and robust analytic capabilities which are optimized to monitor ongoing activity, are delivered through our cloud-native platform. By providing this analytic ready data to our partner ecosystem as well as our end customers, we believe we can expand the use cases we can address across industries at scale. We believe globally consistent and reliable satellite imagery data is a critical component that can fuel the impact of these economic transitions across sectors.
We believe enabling major industries to make data-driven decisions by simplifying access to remote sensing data is central to the evolution of the existing geospatial sector and creates a large market opportunity to advance the digital transformation and sustainability trends in society, business, and in the public sector. We see market opportunities in industries including:
Agriculture: Our data can enable precision agriculture, harvest planning, directed scouting, crop monitoring, sustainable agricultural monitoring, irrigation and pasture management, and soil and moisture management.
Civil Government: Our data can enable forest health monitoring, agriculture monitoring and food security, protection of biodiversity, ecosystems and parks, water conservation and efficiency, permitting and code enforcement, disaster management, geo-mapping, and smart city planning.
Defense & Intelligence: Governments are strategically engaging with commercial space and remote sensing companies to leverage sharable, unclassified subscription products to complement more traditional defense and security industrial solutions. In addition, we believe geo-mapping foundation data, maritime domain awareness, humanitarian and disaster recovery, and natural resource monitoring are examples of the many potential drivers of this opportunity.
3
Table of Contents
Energy & Utilities: We view infrastructure and asset monitoring, proof of permit and code enforcement, air and water pollution monitoring, spill and disaster management, and earth data for geo-mapping services associated with these use cases, among others, as significant drivers of this market opportunity.
Sustainability Monitoring and Supply Chain: We see climate and sustainability-related regulations, risk assessments, consumer expectations, and brand reputation pressures as significant factors requiring companies to identify, monitor, track and publish sustainability targets and related infrastructure. Other significant drivers of this opportunity may include carbon footprint management and air and water pollution monitoring.
Finance and Insurance: We believe there are broad opportunities including investment research, portfolio risk assessment and management, and insurance and reinsurance products. For example, improvements in measuring and predicting outputs from the world’s natural resources has the potential to help optimize the efficiency of commodity trading markets.
Forestry: We believe there are also opportunities in commercial forest management and disease and pest monitoring, as well as the use of geo-mapping data required to monitor change.
Our Operations
Our Fleet: We continue to iterate our satellites and operations for optimal efficiency and function, using our own production capabilities, as well as third-party suppliers and subcontractors. Information about risks related to our satellite development, manufacturing and operations appears in the “Risk Factors” section of this report.
Sales: Our global sales organization operates directly and indirectly via our extensive network of hundreds of partners around the world. Our partner network consists of solution providers, OEM platform partners, systems integrators and geographical information system (“GIS”) software companies that broaden the earth data ecosystem and have deep expertise in building last-mile industry solutions using satellite imagery and geospatial data. Our partner ecosystem bolsters our global presence with regional and domain-specific expertise and expands our market access to more industries, geographies and users.
In addition, our sales organization includes industry account and channel sales representatives as well as dedicated customer success and technology support teams. Our sales team is primarily organized by customer industry to support customer adoption and growth within each sector that we serve. Key responsibilities for our sales organization include acquiring new customers, maintaining relationships and expanding business with our existing customers, and driving contract renewals. At the center of our team’s philosophy is a strong customer and market feedback loop between our sales organization, customer success, and product development teams, which we believe helps to inform our technology roadmap and better serve our customers.
We work closely with our customers and partners to enable our customers’ early success, both from an account management and technical management perspective, with the goal of driving deeper adoption of our platform by our customers (for example, through additional users, area coverage, and advanced software analytics capabilities).
Marketing: Our marketing team utilizes a multi-channel approach to develop and increase our brand awareness and position to communicate the value of our differentiated offering, and to develop engaging outbound demand-generation campaigns.
We utilize an end-to-end buyer’s journey approach to develop awareness and lead-generation activities that engage and nurture prospective customers and expand opportunities within our existing base of customers. The team drives our overall market positioning and messaging across our key audiences and vertical markets, as well as provides strategic go-to-market assessments of use cases that emerge from new and existing competitors that are part of the market landscape. Our communications team also works with targeted influencers and media outlets to drive interest and thought leadership through earned and owned media channels, including blogs, social media, and video.
4
Table of Contents
Research and Development: Our research and development (“R&D”) team consists of software and hardware R&D for product discovery, technology incubation, and go-to-market planning. Our R&D teams are increasingly focused on leveraging the rapid development in AI, machine learning, and the evolving information technology architecture for massively distributed data collection, storage, and analysis. Our R&D function also manages our investments in our agile space missions, including advancing core spacecraft technologies, automated mission operations for our satellite fleet and ground stations, payload prototypes and development, and engineering operations to drive potential scale efficiencies. Our R&D team at Planet is also responsible for developing and innovating our proprietary technology platform.
We continue to invest in R&D, particularly as it relates to building software solutions on top of our data to help make our platform more accessible to a wider range of customers and partners, as well as innovating our space technology to capture valuable and differentiated data sets.
Technology Partnerships: We engage in partnership programs and strategic efforts to embrace open innovation, technology infusion and market-shaping opportunities. These efforts include our technologies partnerships, such as with Carbon Mapper and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; and our partnerships with Telesat and SES as part of the NASA Communications Services Project (“CSP”). We also go to market with analytics partners focused on leveraging GenAI and LLMs to derive valuable and actionable information from our Earth Observation data. Finally, we encourage product experimentation by users via initiatives such as our Education and Research Program, among others.
Our Technology
Since our founding, we have built capabilities across three deep core competencies, each operating together to accelerate the digitization and sustainability transformations. These include (1) Agile Aerospace; (2) Proprietary Big Data; and (3) Our Platform and Analytics.
Agile Aerospace: We are a pioneer in “agile aerospace” — the rapid development and deployment of new space-based hardware and related software systems. We believe making powerful satellites in small packages has enabled us to launch more satellites than our nearest competitor. It enables us to design missions that were unheard of until recently, such as our daily data set delivered via our satellite fleet. It has further allowed us to rapidly innovate — resulting in more and better data for our customers, as compared with historical data satellite services, allowing us to drive the expansion of our platform and customer base and inform what future data sets to collect. We also believe it enables us to quickly address emerging market requirements ahead of other providers.
We have engaged in strategic partnerships leveraging our agile aerospace approach and differentiated technology. Examples of this include our Tanager hyperspectral satellite, made possible by the philanthropically funded Carbon Mapper Coalition, and the satellite services agreement with SKY Perfect JSAT announced in January 2025. Under the JSAT agreement, Planet expects to build, launch, and operate 10 Pelican high-resolution tasking satellites for JSAT. Planet intends to leverage the increased capacity of the expanded fleet to serve government and commercial customers around the world. We may engage in similar satellite services engagements in the future.
Proprietary Big Data: Our technology is designed to put the power of knowledge about the Earth into the hands of more people. Our aerospace innovation has enabled us to maintain the world’s largest fleet of imaging satellites in history, with the capability to image the world every day. This has enabled us to generate a proprietary, vast data archive that grows daily.
With our fleet of satellites, we are able to collect unique and proprietary global data every day and high-resolution data of a specified location several times per day with agile tasking. Once the raw data is collected, our data pipeline leverages machine learning and AI capabilities married with remote sensing science to automate the data processing and produce analytics-ready, Earth data.
Using and contributing to open data standards via the Open Geospatial Consortium, our cloud-native proprietary technology, autonomously performs critical processing and overall harmonizing of images for time series and for
5
Table of Contents
use in data fusion and analysis. We collect hundreds of millions of square kilometers of Earth data every day, collected over the Earth’s landmass and some areas of water. These images are added to our archive of proprietary Earth observation data dating back to 2009 and daily Earth scanning data dating back to 2017. Because this immense historical archive is impossible to go back in time to re-collect, we believe it represents a significant competitive advantage. Our deep data archive is used to train our models, an important asset for delivering useful insights.
Our fleet of satellites enables us to provide proprietary data solutions, including: (1) Planet Monitoring, (2) Planet Tasking, and (3) Planet Hyperspectral.
Planet Monitoring: Our SuperDove satellites work together to create an always-online scanner for the planet with the goal to image the Earth every day at a resolution (Ground Sampling Distance, “GSD”) of up to 3.5 meters. This allows our customers to monitor any areas of interest, discover trends, identify changes and gain timely insights — and is the backbone to our one-to-many business model. We also combine Planet Monitoring with other scientific-grade radiometric data from public satellite data programs, including NASA/USGS-Landsat and ESA/EU Copernicus, to provide customers with a stream of consistent Earth data, using an algorithm that corrects variability in sensors to produce a consistent feed of data for valuable time-series analyses. This pre-processing and data harmonization often eliminates the need for additional data preparation before a customer can run advanced analytics on the data, which helps make satellite imagery analysis easier and practical, particularly for machine learning applications.
Planet Tasking: With high-resolution satellites in orbit and our rapid revisit capability, we can capture a specified location several times per day to achieve a resolution (GSD) of up to 50 centimeters after processing. The agile tasking satellites, all powered by an application programming interface (“API”), can perform multiple imaging modes, including points, long strips, stereo collects, and video.
Planet Hyperspectral : Our hyperspectral imaging satellite, Tanager, is designed to deliver full-spectrum imagery across the visible and shortwave infrared regions, capturing over 400 spectral bands at a resolution (GSD) of 30 meters. Tanager was developed in collaboration with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and sponsored by Carbon Mapper, a philanthropically-funded effort to detect and track methane and CO2 super-emitters. Tanager-1, the first satellite in this offering, was launched in August 2024.
Platform and Analytics: Our cloud-native Earth Observation platform enables customers and partners to access, analyze, and act on our proprietary data catalog by discovering relevant data layers, extracting useful information, and delivering insights through custom-build solutions or GIS workflows via APIs and browser-based applications. We have recently made Planet data available for purchase more simply and directly through our Planet Insights Platform (which has integrated the former Sentinel Hub platform), which facilitates rapid user adoption, particularly by empowering users to self-service our solutions without formal sales interaction. We believe this serves as a natural entry point for some of our smaller accounts, enabling them to realize the value of Planet’s offerings, leading to broader awareness of our solutions throughout their networks and organizations.
Core to making this data more impactful are our Analytics products, which leverage computer vision to detect objects and highlight attention on certain occurrences, and our Planetary Variables, which provide measurements of key phenomena occurring on the Earth’s surface. Some of our derived products leverage data from third party sources, such as those produced by the government-operated fleets like Sentinel and LandSat, which enhance the value of our derived products.
We also work closely with partners, particularly those focused on leveraging Generative AI technology (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to derive actionable insights from Planet’s Earth Observation data. We aim to continuously acquire, integrate and partner with new capabilities and tools, thereby improving the user experience of our platform as well as providing tools that simplify the use of earth observation data. Essentially, we believe enhanced derived product solutions can speed up the mission utility and business value for our customers and partners.
6
Table of Contents
We offer customers a variety of capabilities, including the following:
(1) Planet APIs: We provide APIs for hosting, analyzing, and streaming our satellite data archive, including data from government-operated fleets like LandSat and Sentinel. With Planet APIs, developers can quickly and efficiently do raster and statistical analysis, and stream the results into GIS software. Many customers use Planet data and APIs to power web applications and large data pipelines.
(2) Planet Apps: We have developed proprietary web applications that make it easy to work with our geospatial data. These applications enable customers to order through our platform, perform real-time image correction, monitor areas for change over time, work with analytics, and create and store easy-to-use artifacts. Given the high volume and quality of our imagery and historical archive, these tools provide an optimal platform to access our data.
(3) Planet Basemaps: Using proprietary algorithms on our daily global imaging, we build basemaps from the most recent imagery over broad areas. Our machine learning algorithms select the best pixels from hundreds of thousands of scenes, removing clouds and transforming the images into visually consistent and scientifically accurate basemaps that empower AI-ready time-series analysis. We create global basemaps monthly and deliver custom basemaps to our customers for selected areas and times.
(4) Planet Analytic Feeds: We have built automated, cloud-native, global-scale analytics on top of our data set and made them accessible by APIs and web applications. Drawing on cutting edge techniques in machine learning and computer vision from Planet and with partners, Planet Analytic Feeds harness the power of our extensive imagery archive to detect distinct objects, including vessels, aircraft, roads and buildings, and identify changes in our imagery.
(5) Planetary Variables : We produce and offer Planetary Variables advanced algorithms that process satellite data from Planet’s satellites and broader observations from a range of public satellite constellations, including NASA LandSat and ESA Sentinel satellites, among others. These programs capture different but complementary data sets, such as passive microwave data, other spectral bands, and more. Our goal with these products is to capture and quantify the changes in dynamic systems such as soil water content, land surface temperature, crop biomass and forest carbon and structure, and render that information to the people on the ground tasked with making decisions.
Our Customers
Our customers frequently subscribe to daily data feeds covering their areas of interest. Historically, specially trained technical imagery analysts typically had to hand-process satellite data that was months out-of-date. We are able to deliver powerful capabilities including both data and analytics directly to customer and partner workflows daily through automated interfaces.
We are committed to building deep relationships with our customers by providing easy access to critical geospatial data and analytics in an increasingly consumable format. In addition, with our subscription services and data products, customers can monitor and detect changes and create insights that can help drive timely decision-making, and improve operational efficiency, resource allocation, and risk assessment and mitigation.
We have a proven record of building customer relationships, with customers across the globe, including leading agriculture, mapping, energy, forestry, finance and insurance companies, and government agencies.
Our performance is subject to a number of variables, and as such, we cannot assure you that our results will continue in the same trajectory as our historical results, nor can we assure you that our results will be indicative of our future performance. For more details, please read the section entitled “Risk Factors.”
7
Table of Contents
Our Competitive Position
We believe our cutting edge technology, our industry experience, and our scalable business model, enabled by the one-to-many use of our data, set us apart from our competitors.
Our competitive moats include agile aerospace mission capabilities, proprietary big data, and platform analytics. Our advanced space systems enable the capture of comprehensive, high quality, proprietary data, which power our platform, enhanced by advanced analytics that utilize both Planet and partner AI and machine learning to provide solutions to our customers. We believe that as customers derive more value from our solutions, they increase their usage by incorporating insight from our data into their workflows and analyses. This creates a feedback loop that drives our technology roadmap, from the high-level analytics and end-user applications all the way down the stack to new sensors in space to capture valuable information for our customers.
Differentiated Offering: We believe our offerings set us apart from other companies in the geospatial data industry. We combine our daily scanning capabilities, which enable broad area monitoring at a significant scale, with our complementary high-resolution and hyperspectral satellites, which customers can task to capture a higher resolution image or additional spectral bands of specific areas of interest. Additionally, we believe our archive of historical Earth data and analytics capabilities also set us apart from our competitors by allowing us to speed up the mission utility and business value for our customers and partners.
Scalable Business Model: We provide our Data Solutions and Platform and Analytics Solutions primarily through recurring subscription- and usage-based revenue contracts, which provide visibility into potential future growth. With our one-to-many business model, our margins improve with economies of scale, as there is low marginal cost to sell incremental access to our data. Because we can sell our imagery data and analytics to multiple end customers, we believe our solutions enable us to capture market share across broad vertical markets.
Industry Experience: We were one of the earliest next generation commercial geospatial companies, and we believe our agile aerospace innovations and fully operational fleet of Earth-imaging satellites have put us years ahead of the competition. We have hundreds of satellites in orbit as well as a comprehensive platform for data processing, delivery and image data integration to enable customers to realize value from our satellite data. As a result, we believe we have higher operational efficiency, more extensive proprietary historical data sets, economies of scale in data storage and processing, and proven execution by our global sales organization. With a strong first-mover advantage through our daily Earth scans, we believe we are well positioned to capture this market and continue innovating ahead of emerging players.
In addition, our management team has deep technical expertise in scaling software, data, and space technology and extensive experience operating and leading companies and a strong track-record of building market making businesses.
Our Competition
Competition in Earth Observation Satellites: We see the satellite imagery industry as mainly divided between incumbents, such as Airbus and Maxar, and next generation players, such as BlackSky, Satellogic, and CG Satellite. Incumbents have typically hosted a limited number of active satellites which operate on a one-to-one tasking system. These satellites are typically very high cost with very high resolution, primarily serving national governments and other traditional satellite imagery industries. In contrast, next generation satellite imagery companies have developed satellites that are lower cost and smaller in size and have a stated ambition to increase the presence of their fleets within Earth’s orbit.
Competition in Data Analytics: We also compete and see competition with some data analytics platforms that use geospatial data from a variety of sources to provide analytics services to their customers. Many data analytics providers rely on partnerships with satellite imagery companies in order to source the data necessary to run their analytics platforms. We partner with a number of these companies to provide data for their platforms for certain use
8
Table of Contents
cases while also providing analytical tools and services directly to our own customers. We believe these relationships are advantageous to us over the long-term, as they enable new opportunities.
Our Public Benefit
We believe that Planet’s data, products and services are valuable tools for responding to critical global challenges, informing more ecologically and socially sound decision-making, and measuring and reporting the results. As we grow our business, we will continue to scale our efforts to work with NGOs, philanthropies, governments, intergovernmental bodies, civil society groups, journalists, scientists, and others to make sure that our data is made as widely accessible as possible to inform critical efforts in conservation, climate, public affairs, humanitarian response, and human rights.
To serve these goals, we operate as a Delaware public benefit corporation. Our mission and business model are tightly aligned with our public benefit purpose, which is to accelerate humanity toward a more sustainable, secure, and prosperous world by illuminating environmental and social change. We believe that the most impactful and profitable way to build our business is to ensure that this public benefit remains at the core of our company’s DNA in perpetuity — informing and driving what we create for planet Earth and all its inhabitants.
Our People
We are a passionate team of creative individuals that solve hard problems and strive to make an impact every day. We invest in a culture of learning, teaching, and dialogue, work together to deliver insight to our customers, bring our all, own our mistakes, and build for the future. We aim to identify, recruit, retain, incentivize and integrate our existing and new employees, advisors and consultants, because we believe our people are our most important assets.
As of January 31, 2025, we had a total of approximately 970 employees, including approximately 810 full time employees, working across 30 countries worldwide. None of our employees are represented by a labor union, though in some countries our employees may be subject to industry-wide collective bargaining agreements as a matter of law. We have not had any work stoppages and consider our relations with our employees to be good.
Well-being
One of our top priorities is to maintain the health and well-being of our employees and their families. To achieve this goal, we offer robust and comprehensive health, welfare and retirement benefits for our employees, including medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings accounts (HSA), life insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid time off, various voluntary programs, parental assistance, tuition and work from home reimbursements, a robust employee assistance program (EAP) and a 401(k) retirement plan. We also conduct employee satisfaction surveys at least annually , in addition to feedback cycles.
Many of our employees work remotely and we have adopt ed internal policies around flexibility, work from home expenses, and extra time off. To encourage flexible working and better work-life balance, we maintain a soft-closing policy during certain times of the year, and have adopted a “ flex-Friday” policy which gives all of our employees one extra Friday off almost every month. We also conduct virtual meditation and yoga classes and other well-being programs throughout the year.
Compensation and Advancement
To ensure a compelling total rewards philosophy and practice, we have policies in place to monitor and deliver fair and equitable compensation to employees based on their role, contribution, and performance. In addition, we offer eligible employees equity awards to align their contribution to the Company with a share in our financial success.
Our employees and the people we are seeking to hire value growth and development. We provide opportunities to grow and develop through work experiences, mentorship programs, personal development experiences, training and tuition reimbursement. To help our employees navigate their careers, we also maintain a job architecture program,
9
Table of Contents
which we believe creates transparency about career development within our organization and helps facilitate discussions around career growth.
Commitment to Fair, Equal, and Supportive Employment Practices
We are committed to establishing and maintaining a workplace culture and environment that values and promotes equal employment opportunities, that is free of harassment and hostility, and that enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work. We believe that a strong, dynamic workplace only exists under these circumstances, and where our resources are empowered to share their values and perspectives, challenge themselves with new ideas, and think critically on difficult questions. We advance open communication and other creative strategies across our company.
Our Intellectual Property
Our IP portfolio includes patents covering novel features of our spacecraft, trademarks identifying our company and various products, copyright ownership of the imagery archive, and trade secrets related to manufacturing and operations. We own the copyrights for the imagery captured by our spacecraft. These images measure in the millions per day and are unregistered. We occasionally will license imagery under the Creative Commons for promotional purposes, but otherwise imagery is licensed pursuant to commercial license agreements. We treat our know-how in the design, manufacture, and operation of spacecraft, ground based data relay, image processing, analysis and platform systems to be proprietary.
Seasonality
Various factors can affect the distribution of our revenue between reporting periods, including factors affecting customer behavior, buying patterns and usage-based contracts. For example, we have experienced, and expect to continue to experience fluctuations in our operating results due to the timing of contract awards and renewals and the timing of global events that may increase customer usage of our data services such as weather changes, natural disasters or other global events, or when commodity prices are at certain levels.
Government Regulations
Our industry is highly regulated due to the sensitive nature of satellite technology. Additionally, we contract with numerous U.S. government agencies and entities. We must comply with, and are affected by, laws and regulations relating to the formation, administration and performance of U.S. government and other governments’ contracts, including foreign governments. The laws and regulations governing our business and operations, including the distribution of satellite imagery, and the development, production, and deployment of our satellite systems, may change in the future. Our business and operating results may be materially and adversely affected if we are required to alter our business operations to comply with such changes or if our ability to sell our products and services on a global basis is reduced or restricted due to increased U.S., E.U. or other government regulation. This risk is heightened by the geopolitical relevance of our data, which can shed light on sensitive operations around the globe. However, based on information available to us, we don’t expect that our continued compliance with current government regulations, including environmental regulations, will have a material adverse effect upon our capital expenditures, earnings or our competitive position. For more information about the regulations affecting our business and the related risks, see "Risks Related to Legal and Regulatory Matters" in Item 1A, "Risk Factors".
Corporate Information
We were incorporated under the laws of the state of Delaware on December 15, 2020, under the name dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV, a blank check company (“dMY IV”). On December 7, 2021, we consummated a business combination transaction (the “Business Combination”) with Planet Labs Inc. (“Former Planet”), as a result of which Former Planet merged with and into dMY IV, and we changed our name to Planet Labs PBC and became a Delaware public benefit corporation.
10
Table of Contents
Available Information
Our internet address is www.planet.com . The information contained in, or accessible through, our website does not constitute a part of this report. We make available free of charge through our website our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, proxy statements, registration statements and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish them, to the SEC. The SEC maintains a website that contains reports, proxy statements and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC. These materials may be obtained electronically by accessing the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.