KVYO 10-K & 10-Q changes, risk factors and insider trading
Klaviyo, Inc. · NYSE · Services-Prepackaged Software · CIK 1835830 · All filings on SEC.gov
At a glance
What changed in the latest 10-K
Risk Factors
New heading “We are subject to new and evolving data processing and interoperability regulations, which may increase our compliance obligations and operational complexity.”
Largest changes
“Actual events involving limited liquidity, defaults, non-performance, or other adverse developments that affect financial institutions, transactional counterparties or other companies in the financial services industry or the financial services industry generally, or concerns or rumors about any events of these kinds or other similar risks, have in the past and may in the future lead to market-wide liquidity problems. …”see in full comparison
Actual events involving limited liquidity, defaults, non-performance, or other adverse developments that affect financial institutions, transactional counterparties or other companies in the financial services industry or the financial services industry generally, or concerns or rumors about any events of these kinds or other similar risks, have in the past and may in the future lead to market-wide liquidity problems. Although we assess our banking and customer relationships as we believe necessary or appropriate, our access to funding sources and other credit arrangements in amounts adequate to finance or capitalize our current and projected future business operations could be significantly impaired by factors that affect us, the financial institutions with which we have credit agreements or arrangements directly, or the financial services industry or economy in general. These factors could include, among others, events such as liquidity constraints or failures, the ability to perform obligations under various types of financial, credit or liquidity agreements or arrangements, disruptions or instability in the financial services industry or financial markets, or concerns or negative expectations about the prospects for companies in the financial services industry. These factors could involve financial institutions or financial services industry companies with which we have financial or business relationships, but could also include factors involving financial markets or the financial services industry generally.see in full comparison
If we or our third-party service providers suffer, or are perceived to have suffered, a data breach or other cybersecurity incident, we may experience a loss of customer confidence in the security of our platform and damage to our brand, reduced demand for our products and disruption of normal business operations. Such a circumstance may also require us to spend material resources to investigate, remediate or correct the issue and prevent recurrence, notify regulators, and affected stakeholders, expose us to legal liabilities, including class action lawsuits and mass arbitration demands, litigation, regulatory enforcement, indemnity obligations, fines, penalties, andsee in full comparisonpenalties,bans on processing personal information, and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations. These risks are likely to increase as we continue to grow and process, store, and transmit increasingly large amounts of data. Additionally, as a result of a data breach, compromise or other cybersecurity incident, we could be subject to demands, claims, and litigation by private parties and investigations, related actions, and penalties by regulatory authorities.
We have incorporated, andsee in full comparisonmayexpect to continue to incorporate,artificial intelligenceAI technology(“AI Technology”)into our products and services, including ouremail,Marketing,SMS,Service, andreviewsAnalyticsofferings,offerings and our Reviews add-on, and this incorporation of AITechnologytechnology in our business and operations may become more significant over time.TheGenerativeuse of generative AI, a newerAI andemergingautonomoustechnologyAIinagentsthecanearlyproducestagescontent,ofanalyses,commercialoruse,recommendations with limited or no human intervention, and may take or suggest actions based on incomplete or inaccurate data, AI hallucinations, or flawed training inputs, which may expose us to additional risk, such as damage to our reputation, competitive position, additional costs, and other business, legal and regulatory risks. For example,generative AI has been known to produce false or “hallucinatory” inferences or output, andcertain generative AI technology use machine learning and other predictive analysis techniques, which can produce inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading content, unintended biases, and other discriminatory or unexpected results, errors or inadequacies, any of which may not be easily detectable by us or any of our related service providers. Additionally, our AI models and agents may be subject to adversarial attacks, such as prompt injection or data poisoning, where third parties manipulate inputs to generate malicious or unauthorized outputs. Accordingly, while these AI-powered applications may help provide more tailored or personalized user experiences, if the content, analyses, or recommendations produced by AI-powered applications are, or are perceived to be, deficient, inaccurate, biased, unethical or otherwise flawed, our reputation, competitive position, and business may be materially and adversely affected. In addition, we may adopt and deploy autonomous AI agents as part of product offerings to customers and for our own internal business operations. These autonomous AI agents may operate with limited human oversight and can produce inaccurate, biased, or otherwise unintended results that are not easily detectable or correctable. As such agents perform or automate customer engagement or other decision-making functions, their actions could generate or disseminate false, misleading, or inappropriate content, or otherwise result in conduct inconsistent with customer expectations or applicable laws. If the outputs or actions of our AI agents are, or are perceived to be, flawed, unethical, or unreliable, our reputation, customer relationships, and competitive position could be adversely affected.
“We are subject to new and evolving data processing and interoperability regulations, which may increase our compliance obligations and operational complexity.”see in full comparison
We strive to comply with applicable laws, policies, and legal obligations relating to privacy and data protection and are subject to the terms of our privacy policies and privacy-related obligations to third parties. However, these obligations may be interpreted and applied in new ways and/or in a manner that is inconsistent from one jurisdiction to another and may conflict with other rules or our practices. If we are unable to comply with law, policy or contractual obligations related to privacy and/or the processing of any personal information, we may be subject tosee in full comparisonlawsuitslawsuits, class actions, mass arbitration demands, or governmental investigations, each of which could result in fines, penalties, settlements,judgmentsjudgments, injunctions, orders to destroy or not use personal information or AI models, or other losses. Anyfailureactual or perceived failure by us to comply with our privacy-related policies and/or obligations to customers, respondents, users or other third parties, our data disclosure and consent obligations or our privacy or security-related legal obligations, or any compromise of security that results in the unauthorized disclosure, transfer or use of personal or other information, which may include personally identifiable information or other data, may result in governmental enforcement actions, litigation or public statements critical of us by consumer advocacy groups, competitors, the media or others and could cause our users to lose trust in us, which could have an adverse effect on our business.
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We have experienced rapid revenue growth in recent periods. Our revenue was $937.5$1,234.0 million, $698.1$937.5 million, and $472.7$698.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024, 2023, and 2022,2023, respectively, representing a growth rate of 31.6% in 2025 and 34.3% in 2024 and 47.7% in 2023.2024. Our rapid revenue growth has been driven by increases in our customer count, growth of existing customers, our expansion into international markets, our sales to mid-market and enterprise businesses, and the cross-selling of our SMStext messaging offering alongside our data platform and email offering. In addition, we implemented a price increase in September 2022, which positively increased revenue growth in 2023. This price increase also impacted the various measures we use to assess our usage and subscription levels based on revenue, such as NRR and our revenue growth rate, and following its implementation, those measures experienced corresponding increases as a result. As we have lapped the one year anniversary of this price increase, these measures have seen a corresponding decrease. We anticipate that our revenue growth rate will decelerate over time as a result of a variety of factors, including the maturation of our business, and you should not rely on our historical revenue growth as an indication of our future performance. Overall growth of our revenue depends on several factors, including our ability to:
•keep pace with technological developmentsdevelopments, including rapid advances in AI and machine learning technologies;
We may not successfully accomplish any of these objectives. If we do not, or if the assumptions that we use to plan our business are incorrect or change in reaction to changes in our market, or if we are unable to maintain our revenue growth for any reason, including the reasons listed above, it may be difficult to achieve and maintain profitability, the trading price of our Series A common stock may continue to be volatile, demand for our products and our platform could decline, and our business, financial condition, and results of operations may be adversely affected.
We have experienced rapid growth in our business since inception, and we may continue to experience rapid growth. Our headcount has grown fromsignificantly 1,815in recent years, reaching 2,368 employees as of December 31, 2023 to 2,182 employees as of December 31, 2024.2025. In addition, we have been expanding our international operations since 2019. We opened offices in the United Kingdom and Australia in 2019 and 2022, respectively, and we expanded our presence in the European region by adding operations in Ireland in 2024. In 2025, we continued our expansion into the Asia Pacific and European regions by adding operations in Singapore and France, respectively. We have also experienced significant growth in the number of customers using our platform, including the number of international customers, which increased from approximately 76,000 as of December 31, 2023 to approximately 92,000 as of December 31, 2024.2024 to approximately 108,000 as of December 31, 2025. We plan to continue to expand our international operations in the future. We have also experienced significant growth in the number of productsproducts, features, and featuresmessaging channels we offer (such as addingReviews, reviewsMarketing andAnalytics, CDPAdvanced offeringsKDP, Marketing Agent, Customer Agent, Customer Hub, Helpdesk, and AI featuresfeatures, alongsideas ourwell dataas platform,additional email,messaging SMSchannels like text messaging, mobile push, and push offeringsWhatsApp) and the usage and amount of data that our platform and associated infrastructure support. This growth in our business has placed and may continue to place significant demands on our operational infrastructure, financial resources, corporate culture, and management team.
In addition, our organizational structure has become more complex over time. In order to manage these increasing complexities, we will need to continue to scale and adapt our operational, financial and management controls, as well as our reporting systems and procedures. The expansion of our systems and infrastructure will require us to commit substantial operational, financial, and management resources before our revenue increases and without any assurances that our revenue will increase.
InAs orderwe continue to successfully manage our future growth and manage our business effectively,grow, we will need to continue tofurther improve and scale our operating and administrative systems, andas well as our ability to manage headcount, capital, and internal processes. Continued growth could challengealso cause our abilityorganizational structure to become increasingly complex, requiring us to further develop and improveadapt our operational, financial, and management controls, and enhance our reporting systems and procedures,procedures. Supporting these needs, and the broader expansion of our systems and infrastructure, will require substantial operational, financial, and management resources, often in advance of revenue growth and without assurance that such growth will occur. If we fail to effectively scale our systems and organization, or to recruit, train, and retain highly skilled personnel in a timely manner or at all, and maintain user satisfaction. If we fail to achieve the necessary level of efficiency in our organization as we grow, then our business, results of operations, and financial condition could be adversely affected.
WeSince were founded andwe launched our platform in 2012.2012, our business has evolved significantly as we have expanded into new product categories, markets, and customer segments, and incorporated new technologies, including AI and machine learning. As a result ofresult, our limited operating history,history with respect to our current scale, product portfolio, and go-to-market model, and our ability to forecast our future results of operations isare limited and subject to a number of uncertainties, including our ability to plan for future growth. Our historical growth should not be considered indicative of our future performance. We have encountered and will continue to encounter risks and uncertainties frequently experienced by growing companies in rapidly changing industries, suchincluding as risks and uncertaintiesthose related to:
•foreign currency exchange rate and interest rate fluctuations;
•general economic, political, and market conditions, both domestically and in our foreign markets, including changes in the U.S. and foreign laws and regulations on international trade, tariffs or other disruptions to commerce.
•general economic and political conditions.
If we do not address these risks successfully, or if our assumptions or forecasts prove to be incorrect or require adjustment, our business, results of operations, and financial condition could be adversely affected.
The integration and adoption of AI technology, including generative AI and autonomous AI agents, is rapidly changing the competitive dynamics of our industry. Competitors with superior AI capabilities, whether through greater investment in AI development, access to larger or higher quality training datasets, more advanced AI models, or autonomous agents with greater capabilities or broader functionality, may be able to offer more effective, efficient, or innovative solutions that attract customers. If we are unable to continue developing and integrating advanced AI functionality, including autonomous agents and generative AI features, at a pace that meets customer expectations or competitive benchmarks, our market position and growth prospects could be adversely affected.
Many of our current and potential competitors have or may have significantly greater financial, technical, marketing, and other resources than we do. They may secure better terms from partners, adopt more aggressive or alternative pricing policies, or devote more resources to technology, infrastructure, sales, marketing, and customer service.service, or make strategic acquisitions that expand their capabilities or customer bases. These competitors may also engage in more extensive research and development efforts or undertake more far-reaching marketing campaigns, which may allow them to attract customers or partners. For example, for our SMStext messaging offering, we do not currently separate carrier fees from the fees that our customers pay for our product. In contrast, some of our competitors separate carrier fees from their product fees, which may create the appearance of a lower product fee and which may appear more attractive. Our competitors may also develop a platform or products that are similar to ours or that achieve greater market acceptance than ours.ours, Thiswhich could attract customers or partners away from our platform or our products and reduce our market share.
Our business and success depend, in part, on our ability to successfully integrate with third-party platforms, especially with eCommerce platforms such as Shopify, and our business wouldcould be harmed as a result of any disruptions to these third-party platform integrations or our relationships with third-party platform providers.
We depend on product integrations with various third-party platforms, especially eCommerce platforms, to sustain and grow our business. The integration of our platform and our products with these third-party platforms, including eCommerce platforms, provides us with substantial amounts of additional first-party data that would otherwise be costly or difficult to obtain. These integrations also allow us to attract customers that use these platforms to conduct their business activity. Further, our customers’ experience with our platform is dependent on our ability to connect easily to these third-party platforms as well as the effectiveness and utility of these integrations. The companies that operate these third-party platforms generally dictate, to varying degrees, the terms of use of their respective platforms, including the manner and procedure by which we integrate with their respective platforms. We may fail to maintain and improve upon these integrations or relationships for many reasons, including due to our or the third parties’ failure to maintain, support, or secure their third-party platforms in general and our integrations in particular, or errors, bugs, or defects in our or their technology, or changes in our or their technology platforms or our relationship with such third parties due to actual or perceived competing platforms or offerings. Any such failure to integrate data from a third-party platform, or any disruption on an eCommerce platform that prevents us from integrating with that platform or reduces the interoperability between our platform and the respective third-party platform, could harm our relationship with our customers, adversely impact our reputation and brand, and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and operating results.
Additionally, these third-party platforms may develop and deploy their own AI-powered capabilities. As they do so, they may alter access to data, APIs, or integration frameworks in ways that limit interoperability with our platform or diminish the utility of our products. Third-party platform operators may also embed AI-driven marketing, analytics, or automation features into their platforms that compete with, or reduce customer demand for, our products and services. Any of these developments could reduce the effectiveness of our integrations, limit our access to first-party data, reduce the utility of and demand for our platform, or otherwise adversely affect our relationships with customers and partners, our competitive position, and our business and results of operations.
As of December 31, 2024,2025, approximately 77.7%77.9% of our ARR was derived from customers who also use Shopify’sShopify Inc.’s (and together with certain of its affiliates, “Shopify”) platform, while only approximately 9.4%7.4% of our new ARR in 20242025 was derived from customers that came to us through the Shopify app store. Shopify also helps to promote our brand by referring new customers to us, and under our partnership with Shopify Inc. and certain of its affiliates (collectively, “Shopify”),Shopify, we are the recommended email solution for Shopify Plus customers globally. Any disruption to the functionality of our integration with Shopify, including our removal from their app store, could create delays in data synchronization for our customers and adversely affect the customer experience. Further, if Shopify is unable or unwilling to continue to integrate with our platform for any reason, or if our products or our platform no longer integrate with Shopify’s platform, our customers that use Shopify’s eCommerce platform could be required to switch to another eCommerce platform in order to continue using our platform and our products. However, the termination or degradation of our integration with Shopify could cause us to lose customers if these customers do not transition to a new eCommerce platform, or if they transition to a platform that does not integrate with our platform. We also have integrations with other third-party eCommerce platforms, such as BigCommerce, Centra, Magento, Nuvemshop, PrestaShop, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Shopware, Square, Wix, and WooCommerce, and some of our customers transition from one third-party eCommerce platform to another while remaining on our platform. Further, diversifying our contractual relationships and operations with other platforms could increase the complexity of our operations and lead to increased costs. The current term of our agreement with Shopify expires in 2029, and Shopify could refuse to renew such agreement or renegotiate such agreement on terms that are neither favorable to us nor commercially reasonable. If our agreement with Shopify is not renewed, if there are any disruptions to our Shopify integration or if we are unsuccessful in maintaining our relationship with Shopify, for any reason, including actual or perceived competing offerings, the utility of and demand for our platform and our products could decline, and our business, financial condition, and operating results could be materially and adversely affected.
Our results of operations may vary based on changes in our industry, particularly changes in the retail and eCommerce industry, as well as the impact of the global economy on our customers. Our results of operations currently depend, in part, on the demand for marketing and related services, of which the vast majority are for retail and eCommerce businesses. In addition, our revenue is dependent on the usage of our platform and the demand for our products, which in turn are influenced by the amount of business that our customers conduct. To the extent that weak or volatile economic conditions, including due to public health crises, labor shortages, supply chain disruptions, inflation, a government shutdown,shutdowns, geopolitical developments (such as the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the conflict in the Gaza Strip,conflict, as well as the implementation of, or changes to or further expansions of, trade sanctions, export restrictions, tariffs, and embargoes), deterioration of the financial services industry and other events outside of our control, result in a reduced volume of business for our customers and prospective customers, demand for, and use of, our platform and our products may decline. Specifically, because we currently operate primarily in the retail and eCommerce space, any disruption caused to the customers in this space, such as a weak global economy or the introduction of tariffs causing a shift in the economic viability of the retail and eCommerce businesses, may require us to adapt our business model and our operations accordingly. Increased tariff rates could adversely affect our customers’ and suppliers’ businesses and in turn adversely impact our business and usage of our platform, including customers requesting discounts on our products and services and/or delaying their purchasing decisions. In addition, the imposition of taxes that target U.S. service providers, such as us, could directly increase the prices that our customers pay and adversely affect our business, and changes or uncertainties in U.S. trade policies toward foreign countries could create unfavorable economic conditions that may adversely affect our operations and growth. Furthermore, weak economic conditions may make it more difficult to collect on outstanding accounts receivable and increase our expenses. Specifically, customers may fail to make payments when due, default under their agreements with us, or become insolvent or declare bankruptcy, or a supplier may determine that it will no longer do business with us as a customer. Additionally, we generate a significant portion of our revenue from small businesses, which may be affected by economic downturns and other adverse macroeconomic conditions, as small businesses may be more likely to reduce their marketing expenses during such periods and do so to a greater extent than larger enterprises and typically have more limited financial resources, including capital borrowing capacity. In addition, a customer or supplier could be adversely affected by any of the liquidity or other risks that are described aboveelsewhere in this section as factors that could result in material adverse impacts on us, including but not limited to delayed access or loss of access to uninsured deposits or loss of the ability to draw on existing credit facilities involving a troubled or failed financial institution. If our customers reduce their use of our platform, or prospective customers delay adoption or elect not to adopt our platform or purchase our products, as a result of a weak economy or rising inflation and increased costs or otherwise, our business, results of operations, and financial condition could be adversely affected.
•our failure to develop or offer new or enhanced products or features in a timely manner that keeps pace with new technologies, including rapidly evolving AI capabilities, competitor offerings, and the evolving needs of our customers;
•changes in search engine ranking algorithms or inother search termsand discovery mechanisms used by potential customers;
In order for us to sustain demand for our products and maintain or increase our revenue growth, it is important that our customers renew and/or expand their subscriptions. Most of our customers’ subscriptions with us are month-to-month, and they therefore have no obligation to renew their subscriptions or maintain their usage levels. Some of our customers have elected not to renew their subscriptions with us in the past, and it is difficult to accurately predict long-term customer retention. Customers may also renew on terms less favorable to us, optimize their usage, or reduce their spend. Further, to achieve continued growth, we must not only maintain our relationships with our existing customers, but expand our commercial relationships with our existing customers and encourage them to increase usage of our platform.
•platform development, including investments in our platform development teamteam, AI and machine learning technologies, and the development of new products and functionality for our platform as well as investments in further improving our existing platform and infrastructure;
For the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024, 2023, and 2022,2023, our research and development expenses were 23.6%, 25.4%, 37.6%, and 22.0%37.6% of our revenue, respectively. Research and development projects can be technically challenging and expensive, and require specialized personnel and significant computing infrastructure, particularly as we work to expand both the channels through which we offer our products and the use cases for our products beyond marketing.marketing and integrate resource-intensive technologies, such as AI and machine learning. In addition, our products have varying associated communication sending costs, and our research and development team may not be able to mitigate the impact of growth in any of those higher-cost channels, such as SMS,text messaging, by maintaining efficiency. These investments may adversely affect our operating margins and short-term profitability, and we may not realize the expected benefits. The nature of research and development cycles may cause us to experience delays between the time we incur expenses associated with research and development and the time we are able to offer compelling products and generate revenue, if any, from this investment. Additionally, anticipated customer demand for a product we are developing could decrease after the development cycle has commenced, and we would nonetheless be unable to avoid substantial costs associated with the development of any such product. If we expend a significant amount of resources on research and development and our efforts do not lead to the successful introduction or improvement of products that are competitive in our current or future markets or if we do not spend our research and development budget efficiently or effectively on compelling innovation and technologies, our competitive advantage may be adversely affected, which could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, growth prospects, and results of operations.
The market in which we compete is relatively new and subject to rapid technological change, evolving industry standards, and changing regulations, as well as changing customer and consumer needs, requirements, and preferences, including changes in the use of channels through which consumers desire to communicate with brands. For example, while email marketing has been the primary product on our platform, our SMStext messaging and WhatsApp offering is relatively new, and customers may prefer SMStext message, WhatsApp, or push marketing campaigns or campaigns using other new types of communication channels to email campaigns in the future. Further, as consumer preferencesengagement withand respectpurchasing tobehaviors communicationevolve across emerging channels evolve,and technologies, we may need to adapt our offering to align with these shifts, manage the varyingdiffering margin profiles ofassociated thesewith newsuch channels and technologies and addressmitigate potential margin compression. The success of our business will depend, in part, on our ability to adapt and respond effectively to changes in customer and consumer preference on a timely basis in the markets that we currently serve, such as retail and eCommerce, and in markets we may enter in the future. Our ability to attract new customers and increase revenue from existing customers depends in large part on our ability to enhance and improve our platform and products, offer new features as part of our existing products, offer new products, and increase adoption and usage of our platform and products. For example, we expect that the number of integrations with our customers’ infrastructure that we will need to support will continue to expand as customers and developers adopt new software solutions, and we may have to develop new integrations to work with those new solutions. The success of any enhancements to our existing or new products depends on several factors, including timely completion, adequate quality testing, actual performance quality, market-accepted pricing levels, and overall market acceptance. Enhancements to our existing and new products that we develop may not be introduced in a timely or cost-effective manner, may contain errors or defects, may have interoperability difficulties with our platform or products, or may not achieve the broad market acceptance necessary to generate significant revenue. Further, the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence has become increasingly prevalent in our industry, and, although we intend to continue developing our platform’s machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities to meet the needs of our customers and partners, we may be unable to accurately or efficiently integrate machine learning and artificial intelligence features or functionalities of the quality or type sought by our customers and partners or offered by our competitors. These development efforts may also require significant engineering, sales, and marketing resources, all of which could require significant capital and management investment. If we are unable to enhance our platform and product offerings to keep pace with rapid technological and regulatory change, or if new technologies, including machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions, emerge that are able to deliver competitive products at aggressive or alternative prices, more efficiently, more conveniently or more securely than our platform, demand for our platform and product offerings may decline, and our business, financial condition, and results of operations may be adversely affected.
Further, the use of machine learning and AI has become increasingly prevalent in our industry, and, although we intend to continue developing our platform’s machine learning and AI capabilities to meet the needs of our customers and partners, including generative AI and autonomous agents, we may be unable to accurately or efficiently integrate machine learning and AI features or functionalities of the quality or type sought by our customers and partners or offered by our competitors. These development efforts may also require significant engineering, sales, and marketing resources, all of which could require significant capital and management investment. If we are unable to enhance our platform and product offerings to keep pace with rapid technological and regulatory change, or if new technologies, including machine learning and AI solutions, emerge that are able to deliver competitive products at aggressive or alternative prices, more efficiently, more conveniently or more securely than our platform, demand for our platform and product offerings may decline, and our business, financial condition, and results of operations may be adversely affected.
Our success depends upon the continued service and contributions of our executive officers. We rely on our leadership team for research and development, marketing, sales, services, and general and administrative functions, and on mission-critical individual contributors. In particular, we depend on the vision, skills, experience, and effort of our co-founder and Chief Executive Officer,co-CEO, Andrew Bialecki.Bialecki, and our co-CEO Chano Fernández. From time to time, our executive management team has changed and may continue to change due to the hiring or departure of executives, which could disrupt our business. We do not maintain key person life insurance policies on any of our employees, so the loss of one or more of our executive officers or key employees (including any limitation on the performance of their duties or short-term or long-term absences as a result of illness or disability) could adversely affect our business.
Our future success also depends, in part, on our ability to continue to attract and retain highly skilled personnel. Competition for this type of personnel is intense, especially for experienced software engineersengineers, personnel with experience in AI and machine learning, and senior sales executives. In addition, a portion of our workforce is remote, which adds to the complexity of our business operations. We expect to continue to experience difficulty in hiring and retaining employees with appropriate qualifications. Many of the companies with which we compete for experienced personnel have greater resources than we have. If we hire employees from competitors or other companies, their former employers may attempt to assert that these employees or we have breached legal obligations, resulting in a diversion of our time and resources.
Many of our key personnel are vested in a substantial amount of shares of our Series A common stock, Series B common stock, restricted stock units,units (“RSUs”), and/or stock options. Employees may be more likely to terminate their employment with us if the shares they own or the shares underlying their vested restricted stock unitsRSUs or options have significantly appreciated in value relative to the original purchase prices of the shares or the exercise price of the options or grant date values of the restricted stock units,RSUs, or, conversely, if the exercise price of the options that they hold are significantly above the trading price of our Series A common stock. In addition, job candidates and existing employees often consider the value of the stock awards they receive in connection with their employment. If the perceived value of our stock awards declines, it may adversely affect our ability to recruit and retain highly skilled employees. If we fail to attract new personnel or fail to retain and motivate our current personnel, it could adversely affect our business and future growth prospects.
The future success of our business will depend, in part, on our ability to expand our customer base worldwide, and we are continuing to expand our international operations to increase our revenue from customers located outside of the United States as part of our growth strategy. For the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024, 2023, and 2022,2023, we derived 37.6%,39.9%, 36.5%37.6% and 35.0%36.5% of our revenue, respectively, from customer accounts outside of the United States. We currently have international offices in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Singapore, and Ireland,France and we expect that we may in the future open additional offices internationally and hire employees to work at these offices in order to grow our business, reach new customers, and gain access to additional technical talent. Operating in international markets requires significant resources and management attention and will subject us to regulatory, economic, and political risks in addition to those we already face in the United States. Because of our limited experience with international operations as well as developing and managing sales in international markets, we may not succeed in marketing our products to potential customers internationally, as a result of which our international expansion efforts may not be successful, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, and financial condition.
•changes, which may be unexpected, in a specific country’s or region’s political, economic, or legal and regulatory environment, including public health crises, geopolitical conflicts, terrorist activities, tariffs, trade wars,wars or trade conflicts, or long-term environmental risks;
•burdens of complying with laws and regulations related to taxationtaxation, including tariffs or the introduction of taxes by foreign countries that target U.S. service providers; and
•the timing and success of new capabilitiescapabilities, including AI features, by us or by our competitors or any other change in the competitive landscape of our market;
•public health crises, such as pandemics, epidemics, and outbreaks of infectious diseases; and
•responses by domestic and international markets to tariffs and trade conflicts; and
In the event that our service agreements with our third-party hosting provider are terminated or there is a lapse of service, elimination of services or features that we utilize, interruption of internet service provider connectivity or damage to such provider’s facilities, we could experience interruptions in access to our platform as well as significant delays and additional expense in arranging or creating new facilities and services and/or re-architecting our cloud solution for deployment on a different cloud infrastructure service provider, which wouldcould be technically challenging, time-consuming, and expensive and could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Our business depends on our ability to send consumer engagement messages, including emails, SMS,text messages and mobileWhatsApp and web notifications,messages, and any significant disruption in service with our third-party providers or on mobile operating systems could result in a loss of customers or less effective consumer-brand engagement, which could harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Our brand, reputation, and ability to attract new customers depend on the reliable performance of our technology infrastructure and content delivery. Our platform engages with consumers through emails, SMStext messages and pushWhatsApp notifications,messages, and we in large partlargely depend on third-party services forto deliverydeliver ofthese suchconsumer notifications.engagement messages. Any incident broadly affecting the interaction of third-party devices with our platform, including any delays or interruptions in these services that could cause delays to emails, SMS,text or mobilemessages and webWhatsApp notifications,messages, could adversely affect our business. Similarly, cybersecurity events could result in a disruption to such third-party’s services, including regulatory investigations, reputational damage, and a loss of sales and customers, which could in turn impact our business. A prolonged disruption, cybersecurity event or any other negative event affecting a third-party service could lead to customer dissatisfaction and could in turn damage our reputation with current and potential customers, result in a breach under our agreements with our customers, and cause us to lose customers or otherwise harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
We depend in part on mobile operating systems and their respective infrastructures to send notificationsconsumer engagement messages through various applications that utilize our platform. As new email, mobile devices, and mobile and web platforms are released, existing email, mobile devices, and platforms may cease to support our platform or effectively roll out updates to our customers’ applications. Any changes in these systems or platforms that negatively impact the functionality of our platform could adversely affect our ability to interact with consumers in a timely and effective fashion, which could adversely affect our ability to retain and attract new customers. The parties that control the operating systems for mobile devices and mobile, web, and email platforms have no obligation to test the interoperability of new mobile devices or platforms with our platform, and third parties may produce new products that are incompatible with or not optimal for the operation of our platform. Additionally, in order to deliver high-quality consumer engagement, we need to ensure that our platform is designed to work effectively with a range of mobile technologies, systems, networks, and standards. If consumers choose to use products or platforms that do not support our platform, or if we do not ensure our platform can work effectively with such products or platforms, our business and growth could be harmed. We also may not be successful in developing or maintaining relationships with key participants in the email or mobile industries that permit such interoperability. If we are unable to adapt to changes in popular operating systems and platforms, we expect that our customer retention and customer growth would be adversely affected.
The reliability and continuous availability of our platform is critical to our business. However, software and products in our industry are inherently complex and often contain errors, defects, security vulnerabilities or software bugs that are difficult to detect and correct, particularly when first introduced or when new versionsversions, AI features, or enhancements are released. Our platform may contain serious errors or real or perceived defects, security vulnerabilities, failures or software bugs that we may be unable to successfully correct in a timely manner or at all, which could result in lost revenue, significant expenditures of capital, a delay or loss in market acceptance of our platform, negative publicity, loss of competitive position, lower customer retention or claims by customers for losses sustained by them and damage to our reputation and brand, any of which could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations. In such an event, we may be required, or may choose, to expend additional resources in order to help correct the problem(s). In addition, we may not carry insurance sufficient to compensate us for any losses that may result from claims arising from defects or disruptions in our products.
Once our products are deployed, our customers depend on our support organization to resolve technical issues relating to our products.products, which may become more complex as we expand our customer base to include larger enterprise customers. We may be unable to respond quickly enough to accommodate short-term increases in customer demand for support services.services, or hire and train sufficient qualified support personnel with the specific domain knowledge and technical expertise required to support our platform. We may also be unable to modify the format of our support services to compete with changes in support services provided by our competitors. Increased customer demand for these services could increase costscosts, without corresponding increases in revenue, and harm our gross margins and results of operations. In addition, our sales process is highly dependent on the quality of our products, the reputation of our business, the positive recommendations from our existing customers and through word-of-mouth generally. Any failure to maintain high-quality technical support, or a perception by our customers and others that we do not maintain high-quality support, could harm our reputation and our ability to sell our products to existing and prospective customers, and as a result, could adversely affect our business, results of operations, and financial condition.
We believe our culture and core values are critical to our success and have delivered tangible financial and operational benefits to our customers, employees, and stockholders. Our values impact everything we do in our organization, and we have designed our core values as a guiding set of principles for our employees and business. Accordingly, we have invested substantial time and resources in building a team that reflects our culture and core values. As we continue to grow,grow and expand internationally, our operations are likely to become increasingly complex, and we may find it difficult to maintain these important aspects of our culture and core values. Any failure to manage our anticipated growth and organizational changes in a manner that preserves the key aspects of our culture and core values could hurt our ability to recruit and retain personnel and effectively focus on and pursue our corporate objectives. In addition, the growth of our remote workforce may impact our ability to preserve our culture and core values. Any failure to preserve our culture or core values could negatively affect our future success.
OurWe inabilitymay not realize the anticipated benefits of our efforts to streamline operations and improve cost efficiencies could result in the contraction of our business and the implementation of additional significant cost cutting measures,efficiencies, including restructuring and reorganization activitiesactivities, which may be disruptive to our operations.operations and could adversely affect our business, results of operations, and financial condition.
We have previously undertakenundertaken, and may in the future undertake, efforts to streamline our operations and improve cost efficiencies to align with our priorities. For example, in March 2023, we announcedimplemented a reduction-in-force affecting approximately 8% of our global workforce. We may not realize, in full or in part, the anticipated benefits, such as operational improvements and savings, from these efforts due to unforeseen difficulties, delaysdelays, unexpected costs, or unexpecteddiversion costs.of management attention. If there are unforeseen expenses associated with these efforts and we incur unanticipated charges or liabilities, or if we are unable to realize the expected operational efficiencies and cost savings, our business, results of operations, and financial condition could be adversely affected.
Furthermore, our workforce reductions may be disruptive to our operations. For example, our workforce reductions could yield unanticipated consequences, such as attrition beyond planned staff reductions, increased difficulties in our day-to-day operations andoperations, reduced employee morale or productivity.productivity, loss of institutional knowledge, and harm to our reputation as an employer. We may also face claims, lawsuits, or regulatory scrutiny related to these actions, particularly in jurisdictions with complex labor laws. We may also discover that the reductions in workforce and cost cutting measures will make it difficult for us to pursue new opportunities and initiatives and require us to hire qualified replacement personnel, which may require us to incur additional and unanticipated costs and expenses.
Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”) and related accounting pronouncements, implementation guidelines, and interpretations we apply to a wide range of matters that are or could be relevant to our business, such as accounting for revenue recognition, costs associated with internal-use software, business combinations, long-lived asset impairment, goodwill, variable interest entities, and stock-based compensation, are complex and involve subjective assumptions, estimates, and judgments by our management. Changes in these rules or their interpretation or changes in underlying assumptions, estimates or judgementsjudgments by our management could significantly change or add significant volatility to our reported or expected financial performance. New accounting pronouncements and varying interpretations of accounting pronouncements have occurred in the past, and may occur in the future. Changes to existing rules or evolving interpretations or the questioning of current practices by regulatory bodies may adversely affect our reported financial results or the way we conduct our business.business, and identifying and implementing such changes could require us to make significant changes to our financial management systems, internal controls, and processes, which could be costly and time-consuming. In addition, if we were to change our critical accounting estimates, including those related to the recognition of subscription revenue and other revenue sources or the period of benefit for deferred contract acquisition costs, our results of operations could be significantly affected. For more information, see Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Polices in the notes to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
The preparation of our financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make judgments, estimates, and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in our consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances,circumstances; thehowever, by their nature, these estimates and assumptions are subject to an inherent degree of uncertainty and actual results could differ significantly from our estimates. The results of whichthese estimates form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets, liabilities, and equity, and the amount of revenue and expenses that are not readily apparent from other sources. Our results of operations may be adversely affected if our assumptions change or if actual circumstances differ from those in our assumptions, which could cause our results of operations to fall below the expectations of securities analysts and investors, resulting in a decline in the trading price of our Series A common stock. Significant judgments, estimates, and assumptions used in preparing our consolidated financial statements include, or may in the future include, those related to revenue recognition, capitalization of internal-use software costs, stock-based compensation expense, business combinations, and tax sharing liability.
We track and disclose certain operational metrics, which are subject to inherent challenges in measurement, and real or perceived inaccuracies in such metrics may harm our reputation and materially adversely affect our stock price, business, results of operations, and financial condition.
We track and disclose certain operational metrics, including metrics such as KAV and NRR, which are calculated using internal data and tools that are not independently verified by any third party and may differ from estimates or similar metrics published by third parties or other companies due to differences in sources, methodologies, or the assumptions on which we rely.rely, and therefore may not be comparable to similarly titled metrics used by other companies. Our internal systems and tools are subject to a number of limitations, and our methodologies for tracking these metrics may change over time, which could result in unexpected changes to our metrics, including the metrics we publicly disclose. If the internal systems and tools we use to track these metrics undercount or overcount performance or contain algorithmic or other technical errors, the data we report may not be accurate.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires, among other things, that we maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures and effective internal control over financial reporting. We are continuingcontinue to develop and refine our disclosure controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we will file with the SEC is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms and that information required to be disclosed in reports under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our principal executive and financial officers. We are also continuingcontinue to improve our internal control over financial reporting. In order to maintain and improve the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting, we have expended, and anticipate that we will continue to expend, significant resources, including accounting-related costs and significant management oversight.
Our current controls and any new controls that we develop may become inadequate because of changes in conditions in our business. In addition, internal control over financial reporting is subject to inherent limitations, including the possibility of human error, the circumvention or overriding of controls, or fraud. Therefore, even effective internal controls can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements. Further, weaknesses in our disclosure controls and internal control over financial reporting have been discovered in the past and may be discovered in the future. We cannot assure you that there will not be material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting in the future. Any failure to develop or maintain effective controls or any difficulties encountered in their implementation or improvement could harm our results of operations or cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations and may result in a restatement of our financial statements for prior periods. Any failure to implement and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting also could adversely affect the results of periodic management evaluations and annual independent registered public accounting firm attestation reports regarding the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting that we are required to include in our periodic reports that are filed with the SEC. Ineffective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting could also cause investors to lose confidence in our reported financial and other information, which would likely have a negative effect on the trading price of our Series A common stock. In addition, if we are unable to continue to meet these requirements, we may not be able to remain listed on the New York Stock Exchange. We are required to comply with the SEC rules implementing Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and must provide an annual management report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. In addition, our independent registered public accounting firm is required to formally attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. Our independent registered public accounting firm may issue a report that is adverse in the event it is not satisfied with the level at which our internal control over financial reporting is documented, designed, or operating. Any failure to maintain effective disclosure controls and internal control over financial reporting could have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations, and financial condition, and could cause a decline in the trading price of our Series A common stock.
The rules governing U.S. federal, state, and local and non-U.S. taxation are constantly under review by persons involved in the legislative process,bodies, the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Treasury Department, and other taxing authorities. For example, on July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBBA”) was signed into law. Key tax provisions include the restoration of 100% bonus depreciation for certain qualified property, immediate expensing for domestic research and experimental expenditures and modifications to international tax provisions. Changes to tax laws or tax rulings, or changes in interpretations of existing laws (which changes may have retroactive application), could adversely affect us or holders of our Series A common stock. These changes could subject us to additional income-based taxes and non-income taxes (such as payroll, sales, use, value-added, digital,digital services, net worth, property, and goods and services taxes), which in turn could materially affect our financial position and results of operations.
Furthermore, as we expand the scale of our business activities, any changes in the U.S. and non-U.S. taxation of such activities may increase our effective tax rate and harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations. For example, many countries are actively considering or have proposed or enacted changes to their tax laws based on the model rules adopted by The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) defining a 15% global minimum tax (commonly referred to as Pillar Two), thatwhich could increase our tax obligations in countries where we do business or cause us to change the way we operate our business.
We currently conduct our operations in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, and Irelandother jurisdictions through subsidiaries. Our intercompany arrangements with those subsidiaries are subject to complex transfer pricing regulations administered by taxing authorities in those jurisdictions, and these taxing authorities may challenge our methodologies for our determinations as to the value of assets sold or acquired or income and expenses attributable to specific jurisdictions. In addition, our tax expense could be affected depending on the applicability of withholding and other taxes (including withholding and indirect taxes on software licenses and related intercompany transactions) under applicable laws. The relevant revenue and taxing authorities may also disagree with positions we have taken generally. If any such disagreements were to occur (whether with the taxing authorities in jurisdictions where we currently do business or in those of jurisdictions where we may in the future operate) and our position were not sustained, we could be required to pay additional taxes, interest, and penalties, which could result in one-time tax charges, higher effective tax rates, reduced cash flows, and lower overall profitability of our operations.
As of December 31, 2024,2025, we had approximately $304.1$1.0 millionbillion of federal net operating losses (“NOLs”), which have an indefinite life. As of December 31, 2024,2025, we had approximately $232.6$618.5 million of state NOLs. State NOLs have a definite life, with various expiration dates beginning in 2027.2031. Under current law, federal NOLs generated in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017, may be carried forward indefinitely, but the deductibility of such federal NOLs is limited to 80% of our taxable income annually for tax years beginning after December 31, 2020. NOLs generated prior to December 31, 2017, however, have a 20-year carryforward period, but are not subject to the 80% limitation. Due to certain executive option exercises as well as tax legislation impacts from the OBBBA, we anticipate NOLs to increase in the future.
Under U.S. federal income tax law, a corporation’s ability to utilize its NOLs to offset future taxable income may be significantly limited if it experiences an “ownership change” as defined in Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended (the “Code”).amended. In general, an ownership change will occur if there is a cumulative change in a corporation’s ownership by “5 percent shareholders” that exceeds 50 percentage points over a rolling three-year period, including changes in ownership arising from new issuances of stock. Similar rules may apply under state tax laws. Our ability to use net operating loss to reduce future taxable income and liabilities may be subject to annual limitations as a result of ownership changes that may occur in the future. A corporation that experiences an ownership change will generally be subject to an annual limitation on the use of its pre-ownership change NOLs equal to the value of the corporation immediately before the ownership change, multiplied by the long-term tax-exempt rate (subject to certain adjustments). Furthermore, our ability to utilize NOLs of companies that we have acquired or may acquire in the future may be subject to similar limitations. There is also a risk that due to regulatory changes, such as suspensions on the use of NOLs by federal or state taxing authorities or other unforeseen reasons, our existing NOLs could expire or otherwise be unavailable to reduce future income tax liabilities. For these reasons, we may not be able to utilize a material portion of the NOLs reflected on our balance sheet, even if we attain profitability, which could potentially result in increased future tax liability to us and could adversely affect our business, results of operations, and financial condition.
We have funded our operations since inception primarily through equity financings and cash generated from our operations through sales of subscriptions to our platform. We cannot be certain when, or if, our operations will generate sufficient cash to fully fund our ongoing operations or the growth of our business. We intend to continue to make investments to support our business and our growth, and may require additional funds to respond to future business challenges, including the need to develop new features or enhance our platform, improve our operating infrastructure, or acquire complementary businesses and technologies. Accordingly, we may need to engage in equity or debt financings to secure additional funds. If we incur debt, the debt holders would have rights senior to holders of our Series A common stock to make claims on our assets, and the terms of any debt could include restrictive covenants relating to our capital raising activities and other financial and operational matters, any of which may make it more difficult for us to obtain additional capital and to pursue business opportunities. Furthermore, if we issue equity or equity-linked securities, our existing stockholders could experience dilution, and new equity securities we issue could have rights, preferences, and privileges senior to those of our Series A common stock. As a result, our stockholders bear the risk of future issuances of debt or equity securities reducing the value of our Series A common stock and diluting their interests. Additional financing may not be available on terms favorable to us, if at all. There has recently been volatility in and disruptions to the global economy, including the equity and debt financial markets. Such volatility and economic downturns in general, or volatility in our stock price specifically, could limit our access to capital markets and increase our borrowing costs. If adequate funds are not available on acceptable terms, we may be unable to invest in future growth opportunities, which could harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
We have in the past and may in the future seek to enter into joint ventures, or acquire or invest in new businesses, products, platform capabilities or technologies that we believe could complement our products or expand our platform capabilities, enhance our technical capabilities, or otherwise offer growth opportunities. For example, in October 2022, we acquired Napkin.io, a platform that provides developers an easy and secure way to write and deploy code.code, Weand in August 2025, we acquired Gatsby, a social automation product that helps brands convert engagement over social channels into owned customer relationships. In the future, we may not be able to find and identify desirable joint ventures, acquisition targets or business opportunities or be successful in entering into an agreement with any particular potential strategic partner. Additionally, any such venture, acquisition or investment may divert the attention of management and cause us to incur various expenses in identifying, investigating, and pursuing suitable opportunities, whether or not the transactions are completed, and may result in unforeseen operating difficulties and expenditures. We may also inherit liabilities or obligations of acquired companies that we are unable to successfully mitigate, including issues related to intellectual property, data privacy, tax, or regulatory compliance, which may not be discovered during our due diligence. In particular, we may encounter difficulties assimilating or integrating the businesses, technologies, products and platform capabilities, personnel or operations of any acquired companies, particularly if the key personnel of an acquired company choose not to work for us, their software is not easily adapted to work with our platform or our products, or if we experience difficulties in integrating their financial reporting and internal controls, or if we have difficulty retaining the customers of any acquired business due to changes in ownership, management or otherwise. Cultural challenges associated with integrating employees from acquired companies may also result in the loss of key personnel or decreased productivity. These transactions may also disrupt our business, divert our resources, and require significant management attention that would otherwise be available for the development of our existing business. Any such transactions that we are able to complete may not result in any synergies or other benefits we had expected to achieve, which could result in impairment charges that could be substantial. These transactions could also result in dilutive issuances of equity securities or the incurrence of debt, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations. In addition, if the resulting business from such a transaction fails to meet our expectations, our business, financial condition, and results of operations may be adversely affected, or we may be exposed to unknown risks or liabilities.
We have been and may from time to time in the future be subject to litigation and legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of business, such as claims brought by our customers in connection with commercial disputesdisputes, securities class actions, cybersecurity or data privacy claims, intellectual property disputes, regulatory investigations, or employment claims made by our current or former employees. Litigation might result in substantial costscosts, negative publicity, or injunctive relief that requires us to change our business practices or product offerings, and may divert management’s attention and resources, which might seriously harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations. We evaluate these litigation claims and legal proceedings to assess the likelihood of unfavorable outcomes and to estimate, if possible, the amount of potential losses. Based on these assessments and estimates, we may establish reserves and/or disclose the relevant litigation claims or legal proceedings, as and when required or appropriate. These assessments and estimates are based on information available to management at the time of such assessment or estimation and involve a significant amount of judgment. As a result, actual outcomes or losses could differ materially from those envisioned by our current assessments and estimates. In addition, insurance might not cover those claims, provide sufficient payments to cover all the costs to resolve one or more such claims or continue to be available on terms acceptable to us.us (including premium increases or the imposition of large deductible or co-insurance requirements). A claim brought against us that is uninsured or underinsured could result in unanticipated costs, and our business, financial condition, and results of operations may be adversely affected.
We are subject to anti-corruption and anti-bribery and similar laws, such as the FCPA, the U.S. domestic bribery statute contained in 18 U.S.C. § 201, the U.S. Travel Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, the U.K. Bribery Act, and other anti-corruption, anti-bribery, and anti-money laundering laws in countries where we conduct activities. Anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws have been interpreted broadly and enforced aggressively in recent years, and prohibit companies and their employees and agents from promising, authorizing, making, or offering improper payments or other benefits to government officials and others in the private sector to influence official action, obtain necessary permits, licenses, and other regulatory approvals, direct business to any person, gain any improper advantage, or obtain or retain business. As we increase our international sales and business, our risks under these laws may increase.
In addition, in the future we may use third parties to conduct business on our behalf abroad. We or such future third-party intermediaries may have direct or indirect interactions with officials and employees of government agencies or state-owned or affiliated entities, and we can be held liable for the corrupt or other illegal activities of such future third-party intermediaries and our employees, representatives, contractors, partners, and agents, even if we do not explicitly authorize such activities. We have implemented an anti-corruption compliance program but cannot assure you that all our employees and agents, as well as those companies we outsource certain of our business operations to, will not take actions in violation of our policies and applicable law, for which we may be ultimately held responsible. Any violation of the FCPA, other applicable anti-corruption laws, or anti-money laundering laws could result in whistleblower complaints, adverse media coverage, investigations, prosecutions, loss of export privileges, suspension or debarment from U.S. government contracts, substantial diversion of management’s attention, significant legal fees and fines, settlements, damages, severe criminal or civil sanctions, penaltiespenalties, injunctions, or injunctionscollateral consequences against us, our officers or our employees, disgorgement of profits, and other sanctions, enforcement actions and remedial measures, and prohibitions on the conduct of our business, any of which could have a materially adverse effect on our reputation, business, trading price, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
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Research and development costs for the year ended December 31,see in full comparison20242025decreasedincreased by$23.7$52.8 million or9.0%,22.1%, to$238.5$291.2 million compared to$262.2$238.5 million for the year ended December 31,2023.2024. Thisdecreaseincrease was primarily due toa decreaseincreases of approximately$69.5 million in stock-based compensation expense related to the vesting of RSUs in connection with our IPO in September 2023 and $2.6 million in restructuring expenses. The decrease was offset by an increase of approximately $42.2$22.6 million in salaries and related personnel expenses as a result ofincreasesincreased headcount, $17.5 million inheadcountstock-basedandcompensation expense from theintroductionvesting ofaRSUs,company-wide bonus program, $4.5$8.8 million in technology expenses, and$1.2$4.8 million inprofessionalseveranceservices.expense primarily related to restructuring costs.
Selling and marketing expenses for the year ended December 31,see in full comparison20242025 increased by$9.8$102.0 million or2.5%,25.2%, to$404.2$506.2 million compared to$394.4$404.2 million for the year ended December 31,2023.2024. This increase was primarily due toan increaseincreases of approximately$51.7$55.2 million in salaries and personnel expenses as a result ofincreasesincreasedinheadcount,headcount and the introduction of a company-wide bonus program, $12.7$14.5 million in marketingrelatedexpensesservices,associated with our advertising campaigns across multiple channels of media, $10.2 million in partnership-related expenses across our ecosystem,and $3.7 million in technology expenses. The increase was offset by a decrease of approximately $67.0$8.8 million in stock-based compensationexpense related tofrom the vesting ofRSUsRSUs,in connection with our IPO in September 2023 and $2.1$8.5 million inrestructuringprofessional services, and $4.4 million in technology expenses.
“Our platform combines our proprietary data and application layers into one vertically-integrated solution with advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities. This enables business users of any skill level to harness their data in order to send the right message at the right time across email, SMS, and push notifications, more accurately measure and predict performance, and deploy the specific actions and campaigns that drive the highest impact. …”see in full comparison
“Today, our customers primarily operate within the retail and eCommerce vertical. Due to the flexibility and adaptability of our technology, we have also seen organic growth from customers in other verticals, such as education, events and entertainment, restaurants, and travel, as well as from B2B companies. As of December 31, 2025, our platform had efficiently scaled to over 193,000 customers. See the section titled “Key Performance Metrics — Customers” for additional information on how we define customers.”see in full comparison
“Interest income for the year ended December 31, 2024 increased by $15.5 million or 64.6%, to $39.6 million compared to $24.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2023. This increase was primarily due to an increase in interest rates, greater cash balances due to our IPO, and the volume of newly opened interest-bearing accounts, including money market funds, as part of our diversified cash management strategy.”see in full comparison
We founded Klaviyo in 2012 to provide businesses of all sizes with powerful technology that captures, stores, analyzes, and predictively uses their own data to drive measurable, high-value outcomes. Today, Klaviyo enables over 193,000 businesses around the globe to efficiently drive revenue growth by making it easy to bring their first-party data together and use it to create and deliver highlysee in full comparisonpersonalizedpersonalized, omnichannel consumer experiencesacrossatdigitalscale.channels.Our platform combines our proprietary data, intelligence, and action layers into one vertically-integrated solution with advanced machine learning and AI capabilities and over 350 integrations, enabling businesses to create and store unified consumer profiles, derive new insights, and rapidly segment their consumers.
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We founded Klaviyo in 2012 to provide businesses of all sizes with powerful technology that captures, stores, analyzes, and predictively uses their own data to drive measurable, high-value outcomes. Today, Klaviyo enables over 193,000 businesses around the globe to efficiently drive revenue growth by making it easy to bring their first-party data together and use it to create and deliver highly personalizedpersonalized, omnichannel consumer experiences acrossat digitalscale. channels.Our platform combines our proprietary data, intelligence, and action layers into one vertically-integrated solution with advanced machine learning and AI capabilities and over 350 integrations, enabling businesses to create and store unified consumer profiles, derive new insights, and rapidly segment their consumers.
Klaviyo began as a database designed for speed, flexibility, and unlimited data storage. The KDP generates unified, highly granular consumer profiles populated with data from customers’ own systems and over 350 third-party integrations, and provides customers user-friendly ways to track new types of data, sync data in and out of Klaviyo at scale, and drive revenue growth. Building upon our robust data infrastructure, we developed tools, initially focusing on marketing automation, where we revolutionized email practices. Our innovation shifted the industry paradigm away from batch and blast practices with a fast, data-rich marketing tool. In addition to our email offering, we now incorporate text messaging and WhatsApp channels, Reviews, Marketing Agent, Klaviyo Service, Klaviyo Analytics, and others.
In February 2025, we announced Klaviyo B2C CRM, establishing Klaviyo as a unified CRM built for B2C brands and positioning Klaviyo to address a critical gap in the market: providing consumer brands with a system designed for their unique, high-volume, fast-paced needs across marketing, service and analytics. In September 2025, we launched Marketing Agent and Customer Agent, establishing Klaviyo as the AI-first B2C CRM. This is a natural evolution of our journey – from a leading marketing automation platform to a comprehensive consumer engagement solution. Powered by the KDP and AI, we combine marketing, service, analytics, and our data platform into a single solution designed to meet the high-volume, fast-paced needs of our customers.
Klaviyo Service is an AI-powered customer service offering that integrates with marketing and data to help businesses provide seamless customer support via Customer Hub, Customer Agent and Helpdesk. Marketing Analytics gives brands real-time AI-powered insight into customer and purchase behavior so they can take action faster. Our Advanced KDP offering unlocks advanced features for even more powerful ways to track, transform, cleanse, and analyze data as well as run more advanced reporting and predictive analytics to drive revenue growth for our customers. These offerings leverage Klaviyo’s unified platform to deliver an integrated, AI-first customer experience that enhances automation, personalization, and efficiency across channels.
Today, our customers primarily operate within the retail and eCommerce vertical. Due to the flexibility and adaptability of our technology, we have also seen organic growth from customers in other verticals, such as education, events and entertainment, restaurants, and travel, as well as from B2B companies. As of December 31, 2025, our platform had efficiently scaled to over 193,000 customers. See the section titled “Key Performance Metrics — Customers” for additional information on how we define customers.
Our platform combines our proprietary data and application layers into one vertically-integrated solution with advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities. This enables business users of any skill level to harness their data in order to send the right message at the right time across email, SMS, and push notifications, more accurately measure and predict performance, and deploy the specific actions and campaigns that drive the highest impact. Our reviews add-on allows our customers to collect product reviews within our platform to provide a seamless experience across the customer lifecycle, and our CDP offering gives customers user-friendly ways to track new types of data, transform and cleanse data, run more advanced reporting and predictive analysis to drive revenue growth, and sync data in to and out of Klaviyo at scale. We focused on marketing automation within eCommerce as our first application use case, and we believe our software is highly extensible across a broad range of functions and verticals. Today, our customers primarily operate within the retail and eCommerce vertical. Due to the flexibility and adaptability of our technology, we also see organic growth from customers in other verticals, such as education, events and entertainment, restaurants, and travel, as well as from B2B companies. As of December 31, 2024, our platform had efficiently scaled to over 167,000 customers.
We generate revenue through the sale of subscriptions to our customers for the use of our platform. Our subscription plans are tiered based on the number of active consumer profiles stored on our platform and the number of emailsemails, text messages and SMSWhatsApp messages sent.sent as well as tickets and conversations executed through Klaviyo Service. We currently permit our customers to send unlimited push notifications, which are included as part of our email subscription plan. Active consumer profiles are identified profiles that can be reached via at least one enabled marketing channel in Klaviyo; this means the profile is not suppressed, either by revoking consent or being rendered undeliverable. The vast majority of our subscription plans today are monthly.
Our land-and-expand strategy aligns our success with that of our customers. As our customers’ businesses grow, they utilize more active consumer profiles and send more emailsemails, text messages and SMSWhatsApp messages, which naturally increases their usage of our platform. Our revenue also expands when our customers add additional marketing channels, such as SMS,text messaging, WhatsApp messaging, and mobile push and additional use cases, such as reviewsCustomer Agent, Marketing Agent, Marketing Analytics, and ourAdvanced CDP offering,KDP, or when their other brands,companies, business units, and geographies start using our platform.
Attracting new customers to our platform is a key driver of our revenue growth strategy. We have successfully grown our retail and eCommerce customer base and believe we have significant room to expand within this vertical as well as expand further into other industries, including education, events and entertainment, restaurants, wellness, and travel as well as from B2B companies. Our ability to attract new customers will depend on a number of factors, including our ability to innovate, the effectiveness and pricing of our new and existing productsofferings and capabilities, and the success of our selling and marketing efforts.
We believe our product-led growth strategy enables us to efficiently expand penetration within our existing customer base. We focus on expansion in three primary ways. First, as our customers increase their usage of our platform through the number of active consumer profiles they store and emailemail, text messages and SMSWhatsApp messages they send, they move to higher subscription tiers. Second, we cross-sell additional communicationuse channels,cases such(e.g. asCustomer SMSAgent, Marketing Analytics, etc.) and marketing channels (e.g. text messaging and WhatsApp) to customers who started on our platform with our email offering, as well as add-ons, such as reviews and our CDP offering. Finally, we offer our platform to our customers’ other brands, business units, and geographies. Going forward, our ability to increase sales to existing customers will depend on a number of factors, including our customers’ satisfaction with our solutions and the ability of our customers to attract new consumers. We expect these three forms of revenue expansion to continue in the future.
We believe we have significant expansion opportunities in international markets. We started by serving customers in North America and, in 2019, we expanded our operations to London, England to penetrate the European region. In 2022, we opened our office in Sydney, Australia to capitalize on the opportunities in Asia Pacific. In 2024, we expanded our presence in the European region by adding operations in Dublin, Ireland. In 2025, we continued our expansion into the Asia Pacific and European regions by adding operations in Singapore and France, respectively. We have already experienced significant growth with international sales outside of the Americas accounting for 32.6%35.1% of our revenue for the year ended December 31, 2024.2025. We also continue to expand our product offerings to better serve the international market. As of the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, we offer SMStext messaging capabilities in more than 1520 countries, and we offer our platform in English, French, German, Portuguese, Korean, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish (Mexico), and Italian.Polish. We believe that the introduction of additional languages to our platform will increaseincreases our efficacy and ease of use in other regions. We also currently only bill in U.S. Dollars, and we believe that adding additional currencies to our platform will help us further our international expansion efforts.
Since our inception, we have been focused on product innovation, seeking to create what we believe is the best software solution for our customers. We originally launched our platform with email messaging as our first marketing channel. Since then, we have successfully added other marketing channels, such as SMStext messaging, mobile push, and pushWhatsApp notifications,messaging, as welland additional use cases, such as reviewsCustomer Agent, Marketing Agent, Marketing Analytics, and ourAdvanced CDPKDP. offering.We In 2024, wehave also launchedintroduced Klaviyo AI, a suite ofAI features that provide customers with AI-powered tools to streamline data segmentation, create and orchestrate campaigns, and drive better engagement.engagement, Our continued success depends onincluding our abilityMarketing to sustain productAgent and technologyCustomer innovationAgent toofferings continueas deliveringwell value toas our customers.MCP AsServer technology and consumer preferences change, we believe that our ability to drive continuous product innovation will be critical to attract and retain customers and drive revenue growth.capability.
Our continued success depends on our ability to sustain product and technology innovation to continue delivering value to our customers. As technology and consumer preferences change, we believe that our ability to drive continuous product innovation will be critical to attract and retain customers and drive revenue growth.
Increased Adoption of Our SMSText OfferingMessaging and WhatsApp Messaging Offerings
We have seen notable success in the expansion of our platform with our SMStext offering,messaging whichand launchedWhatsApp inmessaging 2021.offerings. Once customers adopt our SMStext offering,messaging and WhatsApp messaging offerings, they typically grow their usage over time as they gain comfort and confidence in the new channel. Our SMStext offeringmessaging hasand WhatsApp messaging offerings have higher associated communication sending costs, and as the number of SMStext messages and WhatsApp messages sent by our customers increases, we expect our gross margin to decline modestly. SMSText messaging isand WhatsApp messaging are particularly concentrated in the fourth quarter of each year due to the holiday shopping season, resultingand inas a result, we expect our gross margin beingto be most heavily impacted in that quarter. This gross margin impact could be partially offset by our continued work on data storage architecture and gaining further leverage on costs with our increased scale.scale, increased usage of higher margin products by our customers, and ongoing efforts to drive infrastructure efficiency. We believe we will see our overall gross profit dollars increase as customers send more SMStext messages and WhatsApp messages if our SMStext offeringmessaging continuesand WhatsApp messaging offerings continue to gain traction.
As more customers use our platform, we are seeing organic growth from customers in other verticals, such as education, events and entertainment, restaurants, and travel, as well as from B2B companies. While we started with consumer engagement as our initial use case in the retail and eCommerce vertical, we see a large opportunity into other products and verticals. Without an active sales motion, we have attracted customers from verticals other than retail and eCommerce, which indicates the strong interest and applicability of our platform to new verticals. We continue to explore ways to serve these new verticals more intentionally. In the future, weWe intend to morecontinue actively investinvesting in addressing new industry verticals and product use cases.
Customers. We define a customer as a distinct paid subscription to our platform. A single organization could have multiple discrete contracting divisions or subsidiaries or brands each with paid subscriptions to our platform, which would, in general, constitute multiple distinct customers. In some cases,cases at the customer’s request, we allow subscriptions under the same parent organization to be consolidated into a single paid subscription in which case such consolidated paid subscriptions would constitute a single customer. We measure our total number of customers as a point-in-time calculation measured as of the end of a particular period. Customers do not include persons or entities that use our platform on a free trial basis.
As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, our NRR was 110% and 108%, respectively. The increase in this metric from December 31, 2024 to December 31, 2025 was largely driven by expansion of existing customer plans and cross-selling additional offerings.
As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, our NRR was 108% and 117%, respectively. We implemented a price increase in September 2022, which positively increased revenue growth in 2023. This price increase also impacted the various measures we use to assess our usage and subscription levels based on revenue, such as NRR and our revenue growth rate, and following its implementation, those measures experienced corresponding increases as a result. The decrease in these measures from December 31, 2023 to December 31, 2024 was largely driven by lapping the one year anniversary of this price increase in September 2023.
Klaviyo Attributed Value. We define Klaviyo Attributed Value (“KAV”) as the amount of revenue our customers generated through orders placed by consumers within a specified period of time after a message is sent using our platform, which in the case of email is five days from when the message is sent, and in the case of SMStext messages and WhatsApp messages is twenty-four hours from when the message is sent. For email, the message also needs to be opened or clicked in order for the transaction to fall within our definition. KAV excludes orders placed with customers that do not opt-in to sharing data on placed orders, orders for which we cannot determine the currency or value, or unusual orders that appear to us to be anomalies. Since our definition of a customer does not include persons or entities that use our platform on a free trial basis, any revenue generated through orders placed with these persons or entities is also excluded from our definition of KAV. We do not net chargebacks or sales refunds from our calculation of KAV. If a customer leaves Klaviyo, we stop counting that customer’s KAV after their last contracted month. We believe KAV serves as a measure of the return-on-investment that we help generate for our customers and illustrates the value our platform can drive to our customers, which we believe enhances our ability to maintain existing customers and attract new customers. We use KAV as an internal estimate to track the value we drive to customers through our platform. KAV is an operational measure, does not represent revenue earned by us, and does not directly correlate to our pricing, revenue, or results of operations. Further, KAV is not a forecast of future revenuerevenue, and investors should not place undue reliance on KAV as an indicator of our future or expected results.
Generally, demand for our services increases during the fourth quarter as our customers run more marketing campaigns and deploy marketing spend as a result of increased consumer spending patterns during the holiday shopping season. This is specifically prominent within the retail and eCommerce sector in which the majority of our customers operate today. Given our revenue model allows our customers to scale usage as needed, our sequential revenue growth has been historically stronger in the fourth quarter of each year compared to the revenue growth we see in other quarters. Our customers utilize the SMStext messaging offering in particular during the holidays; as such, to the extent that the SMStext messaging offering grows in proportion to our other channels, we expect that we would see further seasonality. WeWhile our profile-based pricing structure helps reduce the impact of seasonality on our revenue, we believe seasonality may continue to impact our quarterly results going forward.results.
We expect our gross profit to increase over time due to an increase in revenue. We expect our gross margin to decline modestly in the near term as the volume of SMStext messages and WhatsApp messages sent through our platform increases,increases and it could fluctuate in the long term due to timing of investments and expected increases inas our cloud-based infrastructure costs and outbound communication sending costs,costs including email and SMS,increase as our customers increase usage of our platform and capabilities. WeThis expectgross tomargin continueimpact tocould optimizebe inputspartially tooffset our cost of revenue through continued work on data storage architecture andby gaining further leverage on costs with our increased scale.scale, increased usage of higher margin offerings by our customers, and ongoing efforts to drive infrastructure efficiency.
We expect general and administrativeincur expenses to increase in the near term as a result of operating as a public company, including expenses associatedto with compliancecomply with the rules and regulations governing public companies, such as Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and anexpenses increase infor legal, audit, insurance, investor relations, and related professional services and other administrative expenses.services. Further, we expect an increase in dollar amount of credit card processing fees in line with the expected increase in revenue for the foreseeable future. As a result, we expect our general and administrative expenses to increase in dollar amount for the foreseeable future but to generally decrease as a percentage of our revenue over the longer term as we scale our business. This percentage may fluctuate from period to period depending on the timing and amount of our general and administrative expenses, including in the short term due to heightened compliance requirements associated with operating as a public company. These expenses include increased professional service costs, the increased cost of directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, and costs associated with increasing our employee headcount in certain departments, such as accounting, internal audit, and investor relations.expenses.
Interest income consists of income and dividends earned from our cash deposits held in interest-bearing accounts and money market funds.
Revenue for the year ended December 31, 20242025 increased by $239.4$296.6 million or 34.3%,31.6%, to $937.5$1,234.0 million compared to $698.1$937.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2023.2024. The increase was primarily due to expansionnew withbusiness, existingincluding customersnew drivencustomers, bygeographic expansion, expanded usage of our platformplatform, as well asincluding our SMStext channel.messaging and WhatsApp messaging channels, and new offerings. For the year ended December 31, 2024,2025, sales to existing customers accounted for approximately 54%42% of the increase in revenue while approximately 46%58% of the increase in revenue was related to new customers, particularly in the mid-market and outside of the Americas.customers. Sales to new customers represent the revenue recognized from new customers acquired in the 12 months prior to the period end.
Cost of revenue for the year ended December 31, 20242025 increased by $43.4$91.2 million or 24.4%,41.2%, to $221.3$312.5 million compared to $177.9$221.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2023.2024. This increase was primarily due to an increaseincreases of $24.5approximately million in cloud-based infrastructure costs, $24.2$42.4 million in outbound communication sending costs on behalf of our customers, driven by increased text message and WhatsApp usage, $31.0 million in cloud-based infrastructure costs, $8.6 million in salaries and personnel expenses asresulting afrom result of increases inincreased headcount, and $2.8$5.2 million in amortization related tofrom capitalized software developmentcosts, costs.and The increase was offset by a decrease of approximately $16.1$4.5 million in stock-basedtechnology compensation expense related to the vesting of restricted stock units (“RSUs”) in connection with our IPO in September 2023.expenses.
Gross profit for the year ended December 31, 20242025 increased by $195.9$205.3 million or 37.7%,28.7%, to $716.2$921.5 million compared to $520.2$716.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2023.2024. This increase was primarily due to revenue growthgrowth, andpartially aoffset decreaseby inhigher stock-basedcost compensationof expense.revenue driven by increased usage.
Selling and marketing expenses for the year ended December 31, 20242025 increased by $9.8$102.0 million or 2.5%,25.2%, to $404.2$506.2 million compared to $394.4$404.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2023.2024. This increase was primarily due to an increaseincreases of approximately $51.7$55.2 million in salaries and personnel expenses as a result of increasesincreased inheadcount, headcount and the introduction of a company-wide bonus program, $12.7$14.5 million in marketing relatedexpenses services,associated with our advertising campaigns across multiple channels of media, $10.2 million in partnership-related expenses across our ecosystem, and $3.7 million in technology expenses. The increase was offset by a decrease of approximately $67.0$8.8 million in stock-based compensation expense related tofrom the vesting of RSUsRSUs, in connection with our IPO in September 2023 and $2.1$8.5 million in restructuringprofessional services, and $4.4 million in technology expenses.
Research and development costs for the year ended December 31, 20242025 decreasedincreased by $23.7$52.8 million or 9.0%,22.1%, to $238.5$291.2 million compared to $262.2$238.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2023.2024. This decreaseincrease was primarily due to a decreaseincreases of approximately $69.5 million in stock-based compensation expense related to the vesting of RSUs in connection with our IPO in September 2023 and $2.6 million in restructuring expenses. The decrease was offset by an increase of approximately $42.2$22.6 million in salaries and related personnel expenses as a result of increasesincreased headcount, $17.5 million in headcountstock-based andcompensation expense from the introductionvesting of aRSUs, company-wide bonus program, $4.5$8.8 million in technology expenses, and $1.2$4.8 million in professionalseverance services.expense primarily related to restructuring costs.
General and administrative expenses for the year ended December 31, 20242025 decreasedincreased by $36.7$34.2 million or 18.9%,21.7%, to $157.6$191.8 million compared to $194.3$157.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2023.2024. This decreaseincrease was primarily due to a decreaseincreases of approximately $53.0 million in stock-based compensation expense related to the vesting of RSUs in connection with our IPO in September 2023 and a $6.1 million release in reserves due to tax filings in international jurisdictions. The decrease was offset by an increase of approximately $10.4$10.8 million in salaries and personnel expenses as a result of increasespayroll intaxes headcountfrom andincreased theoption introductionexercises, of a company-wide bonus program, $6.6$9.1 million in payment processing fees,fees $3.6related to increased volume of customer transactions, $6.4 million in professional expenses, primarily attributedrelated to expensestax incurredobligations toin operatemultiple asjurisdictions, a public company, and $2.2$4.3 million in technology expenses, primarilyand attributed$1.5 to an increasemillion in licensesstock-based ascompensation aexpense resultfrom vesting of the aforementioned increases in headcount.RSUs.
Other income(expense) income, net for the year ended December 31, 20242025 increaseddecreased by $1.3$3.0 million or 273.6%,365.0%, to $0.8$(2.2) million compared to $(0.5)$0.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2023.2024. This increasedecrease was primarily due to favorableunfavorable foreign exchange fluctuations.
Interest income for the year ended December 31, 2025 decreased by an immaterial amount compared to the year ended December 31, 2024.
Interest income for the year ended December 31, 2024 increased by $15.5 million or 64.6%, to $39.6 million compared to $24.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2023. This increase was primarily due to an increase in interest rates, greater cash balances due to our IPO, and the volume of newly opened interest-bearing accounts, including money market funds, as part of our diversified cash management strategy.
Income tax expense for the year ended December 31, 20242025 increaseddecreased by $1.3$1.2 million or 106.5%49.2% to $2.5$1.2 million compared to $1.2$2.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2023.2024. TheThis increasedecrease was primarily due to theexcess increasetax indeductions profitsrelated beforeto taxesstock-based in our international entities and an increase in our U.S. taxable income.compensation.
We assess our liquidity in terms of our ability to generate cash to fund our operating, investing, and financing activities. In doing so, we review and analyze our primary sources and uses of liquidityliquidity, to includeincluding cash balances on hand and cash flows from operations.
Since our inception through December 31, 2024, we have financed our operations primarily through sales of equity securities and payments received from our customers. In September 2023, we completed our IPO, which resulted in aggregate cash proceeds of approximately $320.1 million, after deducting approximately $17.7 million in underwriting discounts and commissions and $7.4 million in offering-related expenses.
Since our inception through December 31, 2025, we have financed our operations primarily through payments received from our customers and sales of equity securities, including the completion of our IPO in September 2023. As of December 31, 2024,2025, our principal sources of liquidity included cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash totaling $882.6$1.1 million,billion, with such amounts held for working capital purposes. Our cash equivalents were comprised of $278.2$325.9 million in money market funds.
Our primary cash needs are for personnel-related expenses, selling and marketing expenses, and third-party cloud infrastructure expenses.expenses, and outbound communication sending costs.
Working capital consists of current assets (including cash, current portion of restricted cash, accounts receivable, current deferred contract acquisition costs, current prepaid expenses and other current assets), less current liabilities (including accounts payable, accrued expenses, current lease liabilities, and current deferred revenue, all of which is currentrevenue).
Net cash provided by operating activities of $166.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2024 was primarily attributable to a net loss of $46.1 million adjusted for non-cash charges of $239.8 million and net cash outflows of $27.7 million from changes in operating assets and liabilities. Non-cash charges primarily consisted of $135.2 million of stock-based compensation expense, $52.9 million of prepaid marketing expense amortization, $19.8 million of deferred contract acquisition cost amortization, $17.7 million of depreciation and amortization expense, and $12.7 million of operating lease costs. Net cash outflows from changes in operating assets and liabilities primarily consisted of a $34.4 million increase in deferred contract acquisition costs related to increase in sales commissions resulting from our increase in revenues, a $20.8 million increase in accounts receivable due to an increase in customer billings, a $17.3 million increase in prepaid expenses and other noncurrent assets, and a $16.7 million decrease in operating lease liabilities due to payments related to our operating lease obligations. The cash outflow was offset by cash inflows primarily from a $36.3 million net increase in accrued expenses and accounts payable due to timing of vendor payments and introduction of the company-wide bonus program and a $24.4 million increase in deferred revenue resulting from increased billings for subscriptions.
Net cash provided by operating activities of $119.4$218.0 million for the year ended December 31, 20232025 was primarily attributable to a net loss of $308.2$31.8 millionmillion, adjusted for non-cash charges of $433.5$287.4 million and net cash outflows of $5.9$37.6 million from changes in operating assets and liabilities. Non-cash charges primarily consisted of $340.8$162.0 million of stock-based compensation expense, $52.9 million of prepaid marketing expense amortization, $15.8$29.9 million of deferred contract acquisition cost amortization, $13.7$24.8 million of operating lease costs, and $18.6 million of depreciation and amortization expense, and $13.0 million of operating lease costs.expense. Net cash outflows from changes in operating assets and liabilities primarily consisted of a $26.9$54.3 million increase in deferred contract acquisition costs related to increase inhigher sales commissions resulting from our increase inincreased revenues, a $15.2$23.8 million decrease in operating lease liabilities due to payments related toon our operating lease obligations, and a $12.9$19.7 million increase in accounts receivable due to anhigher customer billings, and a $6.8 million increase in customerprepaid billings.expenses and other noncurrent assets. The cash outflow was offset by cash inflows primarily from a $31.2$38.7 million increase in deferred revenue resulting from increased billings for subscriptions and a $29.6 million net increase in accrued expenses and accounts payable due to timing of vendor payments and the implementation of a company-wide sabbatical program and a $15.0 million increase in deferred revenue resulting from increased billings for subscriptions.payments.
Net cash provided by operating activities of $166.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2024 was primarily attributable to a net loss of $46.1 million, adjusted for non-cash charges of $239.8 million and net cash outflows of $27.7 million from changes in operating assets and liabilities. Non-cash charges primarily consisted of $135.2 million of stock-based compensation expense, $52.9 million of prepaid marketing expense amortization, $19.8 million of deferred contract acquisition cost amortization, $17.7 million of depreciation and amortization expense, and $12.7 million of operating lease costs. Net cash outflows from changes in operating assets and liabilities primarily consisted of a $34.4 million increase in deferred contract acquisition costs related to higher sales commissions resulting from our increased revenues, a $20.8 million increase in accounts receivable due to higher customer billings, a $17.3 million increase in prepaid expenses and other noncurrent assets, and a $16.7 million decrease in operating lease liabilities due to payments on our operating lease obligations. These cash outflows were partially offset by cash inflows primarily from a $36.3 million net increase in accrued expenses and accounts payable due to the timing of vendor payments and the implementation of a company-wide bonus program and a $24.4 million increase in deferred revenue resulting from increased billings for subscriptions.
Net cash used in investing activities of $17.2$30.5 million for the year ended December 31, 20242025 consisted of $11.3$19.0 million of capitalized software costscosts, and $5.9$9.5 million of purchases of property and equipment.equipment, and $2.0 million of business acquisition costs.
Net cash used in investing activities of $9.4$17.2 million for the year ended December 31, 20232024 consisted of $5.7$11.3 million of capitalized software costs and $3.7$5.9 million of purchases of property and equipment.
Net cash used in financing activities of $5.8$4.5 million for the year ended December 31, 20242025 primarily consisted of approximately $23.7$18.0 million used for the payment of employee tax obligations related to the vesting of stock-based compensation awards offset by $9.7$11.3 million of proceeds from the Company’s 2023 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “ESPP”) and $2.2 million of proceeds from the exercise of stock options and $8.1 million of proceeds from the employee stock purchase plan.options.
Net cash providedused byin financing activities of $242.7$5.8 million for the year ended December 31, 20232024 primarily consisted of approximately $320.1 million of our IPO proceeds net of issuance costs and $4.2 million of proceeds from the exercise of common stock options offset by $81.6$23.7 million used for the payment of employee tax obligations related to the net share settlementvesting of stock-based compensation awards.awards offset by $9.7 million of proceeds from the exercise of common stock options and $8.1 million of proceeds from the ESPP.
We enter into various noncancellable agreements with marketing vendors and various service providers. Our noncancellable obligations as of December 31, 20242025 were $225.5$929.2 million, with $102.5$215.0 million payable within 12 months.
Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are based upon our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this filing, which have been prepared in accordance with GAAP. In preparing the consolidated financial statements, we make estimates and judgementsjudgments that affect the reported amounts in the consolidated financial statements and related footnote disclosures included elsewhere in this filing. Our estimates are based on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. We re-evaluate our estimates on an ongoing basis.
The critical accounting estimates that reflect our more significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this filing include those noted below.
Our SaaS subscription agreements with customers offer personalizedaccess emailto and SMS marketing services through aour cloud-based software platform, which enables personalized email, text messaging, WhatsApp messaging, and mobile push marketing, as well as add-ons,customer suchservice asofferings, reviewsmarketing analytics, CDP offerings, and our CDP offering.reviews. Subscription fees are generated from customers accessing our hosted platform services and our subscription agreements do not provide our customers with the right to take possession of our software. Contractual subscriptions for customers generally auto-renew on either a monthly, quarterly, or annual basis, and customers may elect not to renew by providing at least five days’ advance notice for contracts on a monthly billing cycle and thirty days’ advance notice for contracts with any other billing cycles. Subscription pricing is determined based on a customer’s profile count and monthly messaging quantities based on a tiered pricing structure and is considered fixed. Variable consideration in our contracts is not material but represents the overage charges incurred by customers who exceed their allotments.
We recognize revenue under the core principle tothat depictdepicts the transfer of control to our customers in an amount reflecting the consideration to which we expect to be entitled. We account for individual performance obligations separately if they have been determined to be distinctdistinct, and we allocate the transaction price to the distinct performance obligations on a relative stand-alone selling price basis. The determination of stand-alone selling price uses judgments and estimates that are based upon the prices at which we separately sell subscriptions. If not considered distinct, the goods or services promised by us are combined and accounted for as a combinedsingle performance obligation. Determining the distinct performance obligations in a contract requires judgment. Typically, our SaaS subscription agreements consist of a single performance obligation, and revenue is recognized over time as the performance obligation is satisfied. Our single performance obligation primarily consists of access to our platform and related professional services.
Compensation expense related to stock-based transactions, including employee, directors, and non-employee awards as well as secondary market transactions, is measured and recognized in the consolidated financial statements based on fair value. Pursuant to our 2015 Plan, we have issued stock options, RSUs, and restricted stock awards (“RSAs”); however, all equity grants issued subsequent to our IPO are made pursuant to our 2023 Stock Option and Incentive Plan (“2023 Plan”), which was approved by our board of directors effective as of September 19, 2023. During the yearyears ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, stock-based compensation awards issued were in the form of RSUs subject to only service-based vesting conditions under our 2023 Plan. During the year ended December 31, 2023, stock-based compensation awards issued were in the form of RSUs subject to both service-based and performance-based vesting conditions under our 2015 Plan and RSUs subject to only service-based vesting conditions under our 2023 Plan.
Stock-based compensation awards that contain only service-based vesting conditions are recognized as expense,expense on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period, which is generally the vesting period of the respective award. In addition to service requirements, RSUs granted under our 2015 Plan prior to our IPO are subject to a performance-based vesting condition, which we have concluded represents a performance condition. Fair value of such awards is measured on the grant date and recognized over the vesting term when the performance condition is considered probable of being achieved. This performance condition was achieved when our registration statement on Form S-1 filed with the SEC in connection with our IPO became effective on September 19, 2023. Compensation expense for these awards with both service-based and performance-based vesting conditions is expensed under the accelerated attribution method, which includes a cumulative catch up recorded upon the satisfaction of the performance-based vesting condition for services that had been completed as of the satisfaction of the performance-based vesting condition. The remaining expense for these awards is being recognized using the accelerated attribution method over the remaining service period.
See Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies in the notes to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this filing for a discussion aboutof new accounting pronouncements adopted as of the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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Removed heading “Our IPO occurred in September 2023. As such, there has only been a public market for our Series A common stock for a short period of time. The trading price of our Series A common stock may continue to be volatile or may decline regardless of our operating performance, and you may not be able to resell your shares at or above the price at which you purchased those shares.”
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“In addition, pending or recently adopted legislation in the EU may impose additional obligations or liability on us associated with content uploaded by users to our platform. Laws governing these activities are unsettled in many international jurisdictions, or may prove difficult or impossible for us to comply with in some international jurisdictions. Even if ultimately resolved in our favor, we may become involved in related complaints, lawsuits or investigations which add cost to our doing business and may divert management’s time and attention or otherwise harm our reputation.”see in full comparison
There are certain statutory and common law frameworks and doctrines that offer defenses against liability for customer activities, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Communications Decency Act, the fair use doctrine in the United States and the Electronic Commerce Directive in the EU. Although these and other statutes and case law in the United States offer certain defenses against liability from customer activities under U.S. copyright law or regarding secondary liability from the TCPA or CAN-SPAM, they are subject to uncertain or evolving judicial interpretation and regulatory and legislative amendments, and in any event we cannot assure you that we will be successful in asserting them. In addition, pending or recently adopted legislation in the EU may impose additional obligations or liability on us associated with content uploaded by users to our platform. Laws governing these activities are unsettled in many international jurisdictions, or may prove difficult or impossible for us to comply with in some international jurisdictions. Even if ultimately resolved in our favor, we may become involved in related complaints, lawsuits or investigations which add cost to our doing business and may divert management’s time and attention or otherwise harm our reputation.see in full comparison
“Our IPO occurred in September 2023. As such, there has only been a public market for our Series A common stock for a short period of time. The trading price of our Series A common stock may continue to be volatile or may decline regardless of our operating performance, and you may not be able to resell your shares at or above the price at which you purchased those shares.”see in full comparison
“The trading price of our Series A common stock may be volatile or may decline regardless of our operating performance.”see in full comparison
In addition, new laws and regulations, or the interpretation of existing laws and regulations, in any of the jurisdictions in which we operate may affect our use of AI technology and expose us to government enforcement or civil lawsuits. For example, states such as California, Colorado, and Utah have recently passed laws regulating the use of AI technology, which impose additional operational burdens and may require us to modify our products and services that utilize AI technology in order to comply with these laws.see in full comparisonFor example, the Colorado AI Act, which is scheduled to take effect on June 30, 2026, requires deployers of certain AI systems to exercise reasonable care to avoid algorithmic discrimination, conduct impact assessments, implement consumer-facing transparency disclosures, and develop and maintain AI risk management policies and programs.Federal regulators have also issued guidanceaffectingconcerning the use of AI technology in regulated sectors. Recent federal executive actions have signaled support for a federal moratorium on the enforcement of certain state AI laws, including through a December 11, 2025 executive order on “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence.” To date, these efforts have not resulted in federal preemption of state action on AI regulation, contributing to a complicated legislative patchwork, which may be litigated in state and federal courts. In addition, there have been notable developments outside the United States. In Europe, the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”), the world’s first comprehensive AI law, entered into force on August 1, 2024, with phased application of its provisions from February 2025 through August 2027 and with most provisionsof the legislation are scheduled to becomebecoming effective on August 2, 2026. The AI Act, which may be amended or further clarified as part of the EU’s Digital Omnibus or related legislative initiatives, imposes significant obligations on providers and deployers of certain high-risk AI systems and encourages providers and deployers of AI systems to account for EU ethical principles in their development and use of these systems. We expect these legislative trends to continue, and we may be required to devote significant attention and resources to address the frequently changing regulatory requirements, including by ensuring higher standards of data quality, transparency, and human oversight, as well as adhering to specific and potentially burdensome and costly ethical, accountability, and administrative requirements. As the legal and regulatory framework relating to the use of AI technology continues to change, there may be an increase in our operational and development expenses that could impact our ability to earn revenue from or utilize certain AI technology.
“The market prices of the securities of other newly public companies have historically been highly volatile and markets in general have been highly volatile in light of macro-economic trends. Additionally, we have a relatively small public float due to the relatively small size of our initial public offering (“IPO”), and the concentrated ownership of our common stock among our executive officers, directors, and greater than 5% stockholders. …”see in full comparison
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We have experienced rapid revenue growth in recent periods. Our revenue was $358.0$728.6 million and $279.8$572.9 million for the threesix months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 and 2025, respectively, representing a growth rate of 27.9%.27.2%. Our rapid revenue growth has been driven by increases in our customer count, growth of existing customers, our expansion into international markets, our sales to mid-market and enterprise businesses, and the cross-selling of our text messaging offeringand WhatsApp offerings alongside our data platform and email offering. We anticipate that our revenue growth rate will decelerate over time as a result of a variety of factors, including the maturation of our business, and you should not rely on our historical revenue growth as an indication of our future performance. Overall growth of our revenue depends on several factors, including our ability to:
We have experienced rapid growth in our business since inception, and we may continue to experience rapid growth. Our headcount has grown significantly in recent years, reaching 2,3332,400 employees as of MarchJune 31,30, 2026. In addition, we have been expanding our international operations since 2019. We opened offices in the United Kingdom and Australia in 2019 and 2022, respectively, and we expanded our presence in the European region by adding operations in Ireland in 2024. In 2025, we continued our expansion into the Asia Pacific and European regions by adding operations in Singapore and France, respectively. In 2026, we further expanded our North American presence by adding operations in Canada. We have also experienced significant growth in the number of customers using our platform, including the number of international customers, which increased from approximately 93,00098,000 as of MarchJune 31,30, 2025 to approximately 110,000115,000 as of MarchJune 31,30, 2026. We plan to continue to expand our international operations in the future. We have also experienced significant growth in the number of products, features, and messaging channels we offer (such as Reviews, Marketing Analytics, Advanced KDP, Marketing Agent,Composer, Customer Agent, Customer Hub, Helpdesk, and AI features, as well as additional messaging channels like text messaging, mobile push, and WhatsApp) and the usage and amount of data that our platform and associated infrastructure support. This growth in our business has placed and may continue to place significant demands on our operational infrastructure, financial resources, corporate culture, and management team.
We depend on product integrations with various third-party platforms, especially eCommerce platforms, to sustain and grow our business. The integration of our platform and our products with these third-party platforms, including eCommerce platforms, provides us with substantial amounts of additional first-party data that would otherwise be costly or difficult to obtain. These integrations also allow us to attract customers that use these platforms to conduct their business activity. Further, our customers’ experience with our platform is dependent on our ability to connect easily to these third-party platforms as well as the effectiveness and utility of these integrations. The companies that operate these third-party platforms generally dictate, to varying degrees, the terms of use of their respective platforms, including the manner and procedure by which we integrate with their respective platforms. We may fail to maintain and improve upon these integrations or relationships for many reasons, including due to our or the third parties’ failure to maintain, support, or secure their third-party platforms in general and our integrations in particular, errors, bugs, or defects in our or their technology, or changes in our or their technology platforms or our relationship with such third parties due to actual or perceived competing platforms or offerings. Any such failure to integrate data from a third-party platform, or any disruption on ana eCommercethird-party platform that prevents us from integrating with that platform or reduces the interoperability between our platform and the respective third-party platform, could harm our relationship with our customers, adversely impact our reputation and brand, and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and operating results.
Additionally, these third-party platforms may develop and deploy their own AI-powered capabilities. As they do so, they may alter access to data, APIs, or integration frameworks in ways that limit interoperability with our platform or diminish the utility of our products. Third-party platform operators may also embed AI-driven marketing, analytics, customer service, or automation features into their platforms that compete with, or reduce customer demand for, our products and services. Any of these developments could reduce the effectiveness of our integrations, limit our access to first-party data, reduce the utility of and demand for our platform, or otherwise adversely affect our relationships with customers and partners, our competitive position, and our business and results of operations.
Our results of operations may vary based on changes in our industry, particularly changes in the retail and eCommerce industry, as well as the impact of the global economy on our customers. Our results of operations currently depend, in part, on the demand for marketing and related services, of which the vast majority are for retail and eCommerce businesses. In addition, our revenue is dependent on the usage of our platform and the demand for our products, which in turn are influenced by the amount of business that our customers conduct. To the extent that weak or volatile economic conditions, including due to public health crises, labor shortages, supply chain disruptions, inflation, government shutdowns, geopolitical developments (such as the recent U.S. and Israeli military action in Iran,Iran and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, as well as the implementation of, or changes to or further expansions of, trade sanctions, export restrictions, tariffs, and embargoes), deterioration of the financial services industry and other events outside of our control, result in a reduced volume of business for our customers and prospective customers, demand for, and use of, our platform and our products may decline. Specifically, because we currently operate primarily in the retail and eCommerce space, any disruption caused to the customers in this space, such as a weak global economy or the introduction of tariffs causing a shift in the economic viability of the retail and eCommerce businesses, may require us to adapt our business model and our operations accordingly. Increased tariff rates could adversely affect our customers’ and suppliers’ businesses and in turn adversely impact our business and usage of our platform, including customers requesting discounts on our products and services and/or delaying their purchasing decisions. In addition, the imposition of taxes that target U.S. service providers, such as us, could directly increase the prices that our customers pay and adversely affect our business, and changes or uncertainties in U.S. trade policies toward foreign countries could create unfavorable economic conditions that may adversely affect our operations and growth. Furthermore, weak economic conditions may make it more difficult to collect on outstanding accounts receivable and increase our expenses. Specifically, customers may fail to make payments when due, default under their agreements with us, or become insolvent or declare bankruptcy, or a supplier may determine that it will no longer do business with us as a customer. Additionally, we generate a significant portion of our revenue from small businesses, which may be affected by economic downturns and other adverse macroeconomic conditions, as small businesses may be more likely to reduce their marketing expenses during such periods and do so to a greater extent than larger enterprises and typically have more limited financial resources, including capital borrowing capacity. In addition, a customer or supplier could be adversely affected by any of the liquidity or other risks that are described elsewhere in this section as factors that could result in material adverse impacts on us, including but not limited to delayed access or loss of access to uninsured deposits or loss of the ability to draw on existing credit facilities involving a troubled or failed financial institution. If our customers reduce their use of our platform, or prospective customers delay adoption or elect not to adopt our platform or purchase our products, as a result of a weak economy or rising inflation and increased costs or otherwise, our business, results of operations, and financial condition could be adversely affected.
We incurred net losses of $31.8 million and $46.1 million in the fiscal years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, a net incomeloss of $9.0$8.8 million during the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, and net losses $14.1$24.3 million and $38.4 million during the three and six months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025.2025, respectively. We are not certain whether we will be able to maintain profitability in the future. Based on our current planned operations, we expect our cash and cash equivalents will enable us to fund our operating expenses for at least the next twelve months. We have based this estimate on assumptions that in the future may prove to be wrong, and we could use our capital resources sooner than we currently expect. We also expect our costs and expenses to increase in future periods as we continue to invest in our business and increase our product offerings, which could negatively affect our future results of operations if our revenue does not continue to increase. In particular, we intend to continue to expend substantial financial resources on:
For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, and the three and six months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, our research and development expenses were 23.6%, 25.4%25.4%, 24.8%, and 22.4%23.6% of our revenue, respectively. Research and development projects can be technically challenging and expensive, and require specialized personnel and significant computing infrastructure, particularly as we work to expand both the channels through which we offer our products and the use cases for our products beyond marketing and integrate resource-intensive technologies, such as AI and machine learning. In addition, our products have varying associated communication sending costs, and our research and development team may not be able to mitigate the impact of growth in any of those higher-cost channels, such as text messaging, by maintaining efficiency. These investments may adversely affect our operating margins and short-term profitability, and we may not realize the expected benefits. The nature of research and development cycles may cause us to experience delays between the time we incur expenses associated with research and development and the time we are able to offer compelling products and generate revenue, if any, from this investment. Additionally, anticipated customer demand for a product we are developing could decrease after the development cycle has commenced, and we would nonetheless be unable to avoid substantial costs associated with the development of any such product. If we expend a significant amount of resources on research and development and our efforts do not lead to the successful introduction or improvement of products that are competitive in our current or future markets or if we do not spend our research and development budget efficiently or effectively on compelling innovation and technologies, our competitive advantage may be adversely affected, which could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, growth prospects, and results of operations.
The future success of our business will depend, in part, on our ability to expand our customer base worldwide, and we are continuing to expand our international operations to increase our revenue from customers located outside of the United States as part of our growth strategy. For the three and six months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, we derived 41.5%41.8% and 41.6% of our revenue from customer accounts outside of the United States. We currently have international offices in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Singapore, and France, and we expect that we may in the future open additional offices internationally and hire employees to work at these offices in order to grow our business, reach new customers, and gain access to additional technical talent. Operating in international markets requires significant resources and management attention and will subject us to regulatory, economic, and political risks in addition to those we already face in the United States. Because of our limited experience with international operations as well as developing and managing sales in international markets, we may not succeed in marketing our products to potential customers internationally, as a result of which our international expansion efforts may not be successful, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, and financial condition.
Our brand, reputation, and ability to attract new customers depend on the reliable performance of our technology infrastructure and content delivery. Our platform engages with consumers through emails, text messages and WhatsApp messages, and we largely depend on third-party services to deliver these consumer engagement messages. Any incident broadly affecting the interaction of third-party devices with our platform, including any delays or interruptions in these services that could cause delays to emails, text messages and WhatsApp messages, could adversely affect our business. Similarly, cybersecurity events could result in a disruption to such third-party’sthird-parties’ services, including regulatory investigations, reputational damage, and a loss of sales and customers, which could in turn impact our business. A prolonged disruption, cybersecurity event or any other negative event affecting a third-party service could lead to customer dissatisfaction and could in turn damage our reputation with current and potential customers, result in a breach under our agreements with our customers, and cause us to lose customers or otherwise harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations We depend in part on mobile operating systems and their respective infrastructures to send consumer engagement messages through various applications that utilize our platform. As new email, mobile devices, and mobile and web platforms are released, existing email, mobile devices, and platforms may cease to support our platform or effectively roll out updates to our customers’ applications. Any changes in these systems or platforms that negatively impact the functionality of our platform could adversely affect our ability to interact with consumers in a timely and effective fashion, which could adversely affect our ability to retain and attract new customers. The parties that control the operating systems for mobile devices and mobile, web, and email platforms have no obligation to test the interoperability of new mobile devices or platforms with our platform, and third parties may produce new products that are incompatible with or not optimal for the operation of our platform. Additionally, in order to deliver high-quality consumer engagement,engagement messages, we need to ensure that our platform is designed to work effectively with a range of mobile technologies, systems, networks, and standards. If consumers choose to use products or platforms that do not support our platform, or if we do not ensure our platform can work effectively with such products or platforms, our business and growth could be harmed. We also may not be successful in developing or maintaining relationships with key participants in the email or mobile industries that permit such interoperability. If we are unable to adapt to changes in popular operating systems and platforms, we expect that our customer retention and customer growth would be adversely affected.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires, among other things, that we maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures and effective internal control over financial reporting. We continue to develop and refine our disclosure controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we will file with the SEC is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms and that information required to be disclosed in reports under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our principal executive and financial officers. We also continue to improve our internal control over financial reporting. In order to maintain and improve the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting, we have expended, and anticipate that we will continue to expend, significant resources, including accounting-related costs and significant management oversight.
We currently conduct our operations in the United Kingdom, Australia, andIreland, Ireland,Singapore, and other jurisdictions through subsidiaries. Our intercompany arrangements with those subsidiaries are subject to complex transfer pricing regulations administered by taxing authorities in those jurisdictions, and these taxing authorities may challenge our methodologies for our determinations as to the value of assets sold or acquired or income and expenses attributable to specific jurisdictions. In addition, our tax expense could be affected depending on the applicability of withholding and other taxes (including withholding and indirect taxes on software licenses and related intercompany transactions) under applicable laws. The relevant revenue and taxing authorities may also disagree with positions we have taken generally. If any such disagreements were to occur (whether with the taxing authorities in jurisdictions where we currently do business or in those of jurisdictions where we may in the future operate) and our position were not sustained, we could be required to pay additional taxes, interest, and penalties, which could result in one-time tax charges, higher effective tax rates, reduced cash flows, and lower overall profitability of our operations.
Under U.S. federal income tax law, a corporation’s ability to utilize its NOLs to offset future taxable income may be significantly limited if it experiences an “ownership change” as defined in Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended. In general, an ownership change will occur if there is a cumulative change in a corporation’s ownership by “5 percent shareholders” that exceeds 50 percentage points over a rolling three-year period, including changes in ownership arising from new issuances of stock. Similar rules may apply under state tax laws. Our ability to use net operating loss to reduce future taxable income and liabilities may be subject to annual limitations as a result of ownership changes that may occur in the future. A corporation that experiences an ownership change will generally be subject to an annual limitation on the use of its pre-ownership change NOLs equal to the value of the corporation immediately before the ownership change, multiplied by the long-term tax-exempt rate (subject to certain adjustments). Furthermore, our ability to utilize NOLs of companies that we have acquired or may acquire in the future may be subject to similar limitations. There is also a risk that due to regulatory changes, such as suspensions on the use of NOLs by federal or state taxing authorities or other unforeseen reasons, our existing NOLs could expire or otherwise be unavailable to reduce future income tax liabilities. For these reasons, we may not be able to utilize a material portion of the NOLs reflected on our balance sheet, even if we attainachieve and maintain profitability, which could potentially result in increased future tax liability to us and could adversely affect our business, results of operations, and financial condition.
We have funded our operations since inception primarily through equity financings and cash generated from our operations through sales of subscriptions to our platform. We cannot be certain when, or if,if our operations will generate sufficient cash to fully fund our ongoing operations or the growth of our business. We intend to continue to make investments to support our business and our growth, and may require additional funds to respond to future business challenges, including the need to develop new features or enhance our platform, improve our operating infrastructure, or acquire complementary businesses and technologies. Accordingly, we may need to engage in equity or debt financings to secure additional funds. If we incur debt, the debt holders would have rights senior to holders of our Series A common stock to make claims on our assets, and the terms of any debt could include restrictive covenants relating to our capital raising activities and other financial and operational matters, any of which may make it more difficult for us to obtain additional capital and to pursue business opportunities. Furthermore, if we issue equity or equity-linked securities, our existing stockholders could experience dilution, and new equity securities we issue could have rights, preferences, and privileges senior to those of our Series A common stock. As a result, our stockholders bear the risk of future issuances of debt or equity securities reducing the value of our Series A common stock and diluting their interests. Additional financing may not be available on terms favorable to us, if at all. There has recently been volatility in and disruptions to the global economy, including the equity and debt financial markets. Such volatility and economic downturns in general, or volatility in our stock price specifically, could limit our access to capital markets and increase our borrowing costs. If adequate funds are not available on acceptable terms, we may be unable to invest in future growth opportunities, which could harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
We have in the past and may in the future seek to enter into joint ventures, or acquire or invest in new businesses, products, platform capabilities or technologies that we believe could complement our products or expand our platform capabilities, enhance our technical capabilities, or otherwise offer growth opportunities. For example, in October 2022, we acquired Napkin.io, a platform that provides developers an easy and secure way to write and deploy code, and in August 2025, we acquired Gatsby, a social automation product that helps brands convert engagement over social channels into owned customer relationships. In the future, we may not be able to find and identify desirable joint ventures, acquisition targets or business opportunities or be successful in entering into an agreement with any particular potential strategic partner. Additionally, any such venture, acquisition or investment may divert the attention of management and cause us to incur various expenses in identifying, investigating, and pursuing suitable opportunities, whether or not the transactions are completed, and may result in unforeseen operating difficulties and expenditures. We may also inherit liabilities or obligations of acquired companies that we are unable to successfully mitigate, including issues related to intellectual property, data privacy, tax, or regulatory compliance, which may not be discovered during our due diligence. In particular, we may encounter difficulties assimilating or integrating the businesses, technologies, products and platform capabilities, personnel or operations of any acquired companies, particularly if the key personnel of an acquired company choose not to work for us, if their softwaretechnology is not easily adapted to work with our platform or our products, or if we experience difficulties in integrating their financial reporting and internal controls, or if we have difficulty retaining the customers of any acquired business due to changes in ownership, management or otherwise. Cultural challenges associated with integrating employees from acquired companies may also result in the loss of key personnel or decreased productivity. These transactions may also disrupt our business, divert our resources, and require significant management attention that would otherwise be available for the development of our existing business. Any such transactions that we are able to complete may not result in any synergies or other benefits we had expected to achieve, which could result in impairment charges that could be substantial. These transactions could also result in dilutive issuances of equity securities or the incurrence of debt, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations. In addition, if the resulting business from such a transaction fails to meet our expectations, our business, financial condition, and results of operations may be adversely affected, or we may be exposed to unknown risks or liabilities.
The impact to our business from any future pandemic, epidemic, outbreak of an infectious disease or other public health crises depends on multiple factors that cannot be accurately predicted, such as its duration and scope, the extent and effectiveness of containment actions, the disruption caused by such actions, and the efficacy and rates of vaccines. Any future pandemic, epidemic, outbreak of an infectious disease or other public health crises could have severe impacts on our business and our customers’ and prospective customers’ businesses, for example, by adversely impacting their timing, ability, or willingness to spend on our marketing platform and product offerings. Negative effects of any pandemic, epidemic, outbreak of an infectious disease or other public health crises on our customers or prospective customers could lead to pricing discounts or extended payment terms, reductions in the amount or duration of customers’ subscriptions, or increase customer attrition rates. Any of the foregoing could adversely affect our productivity, employee morale, future sales, operating results, and overall financial performance. To the extent any future pandemic, epidemic, outbreak of an infectious disease or other public health crisis adversely affects our business and financial results, it may also have the effect of heightening many of the other risks described herein.
The CAN-SPAM Act, among other things, obligates the sender of commercial emails to provide recipients with the ability to opt out of receiving future commercial emails from the sender. The ability of our customers’ message recipients to opt out of receiving commercial emails may minimize the effectiveness of the email components of our platform. In addition, certain states, and foreign jurisdictions, such as Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the EU, have enacted laws that regulate sending email, and some of these laws are more restrictive than U.S. laws. For example, some foreign laws prohibit sending unsolicited email unless the recipient has provided the sender advance consent to receipt of such email, or in other words has “opted-in” to receiving it. A requirement that recipients opt into, or the ability of recipients to opt out of, receiving commercial emails may minimize the effectiveness of our platform. Any failure by us or our customers to comply fully with the CAN-SPAM Act or similar laws and regulations in other jurisdictions may leave us subject to substantial fines and penalties.
We also face stringent regulation in connection with our use of telecommunication services for the transmission of marketing messages. The TCPA is a federal statute that protects consumers from unwanted telephone calls, faxes, and text messages. TCPA violations can result in significant financial penalties as a business can incur civil forfeiture penalties or criminal fines imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (the “FCC”) or be fined for each violation through private litigation or state attorneys general or other state actor enforcement. Class action suits are the most common method for private enforcement. Our text messaging product is a potential source of risk for class-action lawsuits and liability for our company. Numerous class-action suits under federal and state laws have been filed in recent years against companies who conduct call and text messaging programs, with many resulting in multi-million-dollar settlements to the plaintiffs. While we strive to adhere to strict policies and procedures, the FCC, as the agency that implements and enforces the TCPA, may determine that our efforts to address the TCPA are insufficient and may subject us to penalties and other consequences for noncompliance. Determination by a court or regulatory agency that our platform or our products violate the TCPA could subject us to civil penalties, could invalidate all or portions of some of our client contracts, could require us to change or terminate some portions of our business, could require us to refund portions of our service fees, and could have an adverse effect on our business. Further, we could be subject to class action lawsuits for any claimed TCPA violations. Even an unsuccessful challenge by consumers or regulatory authorities of our activities could result in adverse publicity and could require a costly response from us. Additionally, the scope of the TCPA is frequently under review and future regulations interpreting the TCPA may impose new limitations on our or our customers’ ability to send commercial messages via telephone calls, faxes, and text messages. Further, some states have enacted laws similar to, or broader than, the TCPA, which may be an additional source of potential claims or liability. These laws may impose broader obligations than the TCPA upon companies that use telephone calls or text messages for commercial communications. Additional U.S. states, such as Michigan, have proposed legislation that will further regulate commercial telephone marketing, and other states may adopt similar laws, which could further limit our customers’ ability to use our services or expose us to currently unforeseen liability.
states, such as Michigan, have proposed legislation that will further regulate commercial telephone marketing, and other states may adopt similar laws, which could further limit our customers’ ability to use our services or expose us to currently unforeseen liability.
There are certain statutory and common law frameworks and doctrines that offer defenses against liability for customer activities, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Communications Decency Act, the fair use doctrine in the United States and the Electronic Commerce Directive in the EU. Although these and other statutes and case law in the United States offer certain defenses against liability from customer activities under U.S. copyright law or regarding secondary liability from the TCPA or CAN-SPAM, they are subject to uncertain or evolving judicial interpretation and regulatory and legislative amendments, and in any event we cannot assure you that we will be successful in asserting them. In addition, pending or recently adopted legislation in the EU may impose additional obligations or liability on us associated with content uploaded by users to our platform. Laws governing these activities are unsettled in many international jurisdictions, or may prove difficult or impossible for us to comply with in some international jurisdictions. Even if ultimately resolved in our favor, we may become involved in related complaints, lawsuits or investigations which add cost to our doing business and may divert management’s time and attention or otherwise harm our reputation.
In addition, pending or recently adopted legislation in the EU may impose additional obligations or liability on us associated with content uploaded by users to our platform. Laws governing these activities are unsettled in many international jurisdictions, or may prove difficult or impossible for us to comply with in some international jurisdictions. Even if ultimately resolved in our favor, we may become involved in related complaints, lawsuits or investigations which add cost to our doing business and may divert management’s time and attention or otherwise harm our reputation.
Intellectual property infringement claims, with or without merit, are typically complex, time consuming, and expensive to resolve and would divert the time and attention of our management and technical personnel. These claims could also subject us to significant liability for damages, including treble damages if we are found to have willfully infringed third-party patents, and may trigger substantial indemnification obligations to our customers. ItThey may enjoin us from continuing to use certain features or portions of allegedly infringing products or even the allegedly infringing products themselves. ItThey may also result in adverse publicity, which could harm our reputation and ability to attract or retain customers or otherwise prevent us from competing effectively in the market. As we grow and our profile increases, we may experience a heightened risk of allegations of intellectual property infringement. An adverse result in any litigation claims against us could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
In addition, new laws and regulations, or the interpretation of existing laws and regulations, in any of the jurisdictions in which we operate may affect our use of AI technology and expose us to government enforcement or civil lawsuits. For example, states such as California, Colorado, and Utah have recently passed laws regulating the use of AI technology, which impose additional operational burdens and may require us to modify our products and services that utilize AI technology in order to comply with these laws. For example, the Colorado AI Act, which is scheduled to take effect on June 30, 2026, requires deployers of certain AI systems to exercise reasonable care to avoid algorithmic discrimination, conduct impact assessments, implement consumer-facing transparency disclosures, and develop and maintain AI risk management policies and programs. Federal regulators have also issued guidance affectingconcerning the use of AI technology in regulated sectors. Recent federal executive actions have signaled support for a federal moratorium on the enforcement of certain state AI laws, including through a December 11, 2025 executive order on “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence.” To date, these efforts have not resulted in federal preemption of state action on AI regulation, contributing to a complicated legislative patchwork, which may be litigated in state and federal courts. In addition, there have been notable developments outside the United States. In Europe, the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”), the world’s first comprehensive AI law, entered into force on August 1, 2024, with phased application of its provisions from February 2025 through August 2027 and with most provisions of the legislation are scheduled to becomebecoming effective on August 2, 2026. The AI Act, which may be amended or further clarified as part of the EU’s Digital Omnibus or related legislative initiatives, imposes significant obligations on providers and deployers of certain high-risk AI systems and encourages providers and deployers of AI systems to account for EU ethical principles in their development and use of these systems. We expect these legislative trends to continue, and we may be required to devote significant attention and resources to address the frequently changing regulatory requirements, including by ensuring higher standards of data quality, transparency, and human oversight, as well as adhering to specific and potentially burdensome and costly ethical, accountability, and administrative requirements. As the legal and regulatory framework relating to the use of AI technology continues to change, there may be an increase in our operational and development expenses that could impact our ability to earn revenue from or utilize certain AI technology.
The trading price of our Series A common stock may be volatile or may decline regardless of our operating performance.
The trading price of our Series A common stock may fluctuate significantly in response to numerous factors, many of which are beyond our control, including:
Our IPO occurred in September 2023. As such, there has only been a public market for our Series A common stock for a short period of time. The trading price of our Series A common stock may continue to be volatile or may decline regardless of our operating performance, and you may not be able to resell your shares at or above the price at which you purchased those shares.
The market prices of the securities of other newly public companies have historically been highly volatile and markets in general have been highly volatile in light of macro-economic trends. Additionally, we have a relatively small public float due to the relatively small size of our initial public offering (“IPO”), and the concentrated ownership of our common stock among our executive officers, directors, and greater than 5% stockholders. As a result of our small public float, our Series A common stock may be less liquid and have greater stock price volatility than the common stock of companies with broader public ownership. The trading price of our Series A common stock may fluctuate significantly in response to numerous factors, many of which are beyond our control, including:
•the number of shares of our Series A common stock made available for trading;
Our Series B common stock has ten votes per share, and our Series A common stock has one vote per share. Our directors, executive officers, and their affiliates, beneficially own in the aggregate 64.6%64.7% of the voting power of our capital stock as of MarchJune 31,30, 2026. Our co-founders, Andrew Bialecki and Ed Hallen, beneficially own 48.2%47.7% and 20.2%,20.3%, respectively, of our Series B common stock and together 68.4%68.0% of our Series B common stock as of MarchJune 31,30, 2026. As such, our co-founders individually or together hold significant influence and control over matters requiring the vote of our stockholders including the sale, merger or acquisition of our company. Because of the ten-to-one voting ratio between our Series B and Series A common stock, the holders of our Series B common stock collectively continue to control a majority of the combined voting power of our common stock and therefore are able to continue to control all matters submitted to our stockholders for approval until the seventh anniversary of our IPO,initial public offering ("IPO"), when all outstanding shares of our Series A common stock and Series B common stock will convert automatically into shares of a single series of common stock, or until they no longer hold a majority of the combined voting power of our common stock. The holders of our Series B common stock may have interests that differ from yours and may vote in a way with which you disagree and which may be adverse to your interests. Additionally, the Share Repurchase Program may reduce our public float and further concentrate ownership among our directors, executive officers, and their affiliates. This concentrated control may limit or preclude your ability to influence corporate matters for the foreseeable future, including the election of directors, amendments of our organizational documents, and any merger, consolidation, sale of all or substantially all of our assets or other major corporate transaction requiring stockholder approval. In addition, this concentrated control may prevent or discourage unsolicited acquisition proposals or offers for our capital stock that you may believe are in your best interest as one of our stockholders, and could deprive our stockholders of an opportunity to receive a premium for their shares as part of a sale of our company.
We cannot predict whether our dual series structure will result in a lower or more volatile trading price of our Series A common stock, adverse publicity, or other adverse consequences. For example, certain index providers have announced restrictions affecting companies with multiple-class or series share structures in certain of their indices. In July 2017, FTSE Russell announced that it would require new constituents of its indices to have greater than 5% of a company’s voting rights in the hands of public stockholders. Under this policy, the dual series structure of our common stock could make us ineligible for inclusion in certain indices and, as a result, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and other investment vehicles that attempt to passively track those indices may not invest in our Series A common stock. These policies aremay relatively new and it is unclear what effect, if any, they will have or continue to have ondepress the valuations of publicly traded companies excluded from such indices, but it is possible that they may depress valuations,indices as compared to similar companies that are included. Because of the dual series structure of our common stock, we may be excluded from certain indices, and other stock indices may take similar actions. Given the sustained flow of investment funds into passive strategies that seek to track certain indices, exclusion from certain stock indices could preclude investment by many of these funds and could make our Series A common stock less attractive to other investors. In addition, several stockholder advisory firms and large institutional investors oppose the use of multiple class structures. As a result, the dual series structure of our common stock may cause stockholder advisory firms to publish negative commentary about our corporate governance practices or otherwise seek to cause us to change our governance practice or capital structure, and may result in large institutional investors not purchasing shares of our Series A common stock. As a result, the trading price of our Series A common stock could be adversely affected.
Sales of a substantial number of shares of our Series A common stock into the public market, particularly sales by our directors, executive officers, and principal stockholders, or the perception that these sales might occur, could cause the trading price of our Series A common stock to decline and may make it more difficult for you to sell your shares of our Series A common stock at a time and price that you deem appropriate. For example, on May 16, 2025, our co-founder, co- CEO,co-CEO, director and largest stockholder, Andrew Bialecki, sold 10,969,078 shares of our Series A common stock in a registered secondary offering to cover tax obligations related to the exercise of his expiring stock options. If Mr. Bialecki or any of our other directors, executive officers or principal stockholders were to sell a substantial portion of shares of our Series A common stock in the public market, whether in a single transaction or a series of transactions, the trading price of our Series A common stock could decline. While shares held by directors, executive officers, and other affiliates are subject to volume limitations under Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and various vesting agreements, we are unable to predict the timing of or the effect that such sales may have on the prevailing market price of our Series A common stock.
In addition, as of MarchJune 31,30, 2026, we had 1,436,3501,397,355 options outstanding that, if fully exercised, would result in the issuance of an equal number of shares of Series B common stock, as well as 798,969494,093 shares of Series B common stock and 20,728,96221,827,236 shares of Series A common stock subject to outstanding RSU and PSU awards. Shares of Series B common stock will automatically convert into shares of Series A common stock upon certain transfers and other events. All of the shares of Series B common stock issuable upon the exercise of stock options or the vesting of RSU awards and the shares reserved for future issuance under our equity incentive plans have been registered on a registration statement on Form S-8 under the Securities Act. Accordingly, following conversion to shares of Series A common stock, these shares can be freely sold in the public market upon issuance, subject to volume limitations under Rule 144 for our executive officers and directors and applicable vesting requirements. The market price of our Series A common stock could also be adversely affected by the vesting and settlement of RSUs and PSUs and the exercise of stock options, which may result in the sale of a significant number of shares to satisfy tax withholding obligations (commonly referred to as “sell-to-cover” transactions), creating short-term selling pressure.
Our corporate headquarters are located in Boston, Massachusetts, and we have employees elsewhere in the United States. We also have offices in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Singapore, and Ireland.France. A significant natural disaster, such as an earthquake, fire, flood, or extreme weather event, occurring at our corporate headquarters, at one of our other facilities, or where a partner is located, could adversely affect our business, results of operations, and financial condition. Further, if a natural disaster or man-made problem were to affect our third-party vendors, such as cloud infrastructure providers, it could adversely affect the ability of our customers to use our platform. In addition, natural disasters, geopolitical tension, military conflict or war, and acts of terrorism could cause disruptions in our or our customers’ businesses, national economies, or the world economy as a whole. Health concerns or political or governmental developments in countries where we or our customers and vendors operate could result in economic, social, or labor instability and could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, and financial condition.
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Klaviyo began as a database designed for speed, flexibility, and unlimited data storage. The Klaviyo Data Platform (“KDP”) generates unified, highly granular consumer profiles populated with data from customers’ own systems and over 350 third-party integrations, and provides customers user-friendly ways to track new types of data, sync data in and out of Klaviyo at scale, and drive revenue growth. Building upon our robust data infrastructure, we developed tools, initially focusing on marketing automation, where we revolutionized email practices. Our innovation shifted the industry paradigm away from batch and blast practices with a fast, data-rich marketing tool. In addition to our email offering, we now incorporate text messaging and WhatsApp channels, Reviews, Marketing Agent, Klaviyo Service, Klaviyo Analytics, and others.
In February 2025, we announced Klaviyo B2C CRM, establishing Klaviyo as a unified CRM built for B2C brands and positioning Klaviyo to address a critical gap in the market: providing consumer brands with a system designed for their unique, high-volume, fast-paced needs across marketing, service and analytics. In September 2025, we launched Marketing Agent and Customer Agent, establishing Klaviyo as the AI-first B2C CRM. ThisIn June 2026, we announced the public beta of Composer, our next generation agent for marketing and analysis. Taken together, this is a natural evolution of our journey – from a leading marketing automation platform to a comprehensive consumer engagement solution. Powered by the KDP and AI, we combine marketing, service, analytics, and our data platform into a single solution designed to meet the high-volume, fast-paced needs of our customers.
Today, our customers primarily operate within the retail and eCommerce vertical. Due to the flexibility and adaptability of our technology, we have also seen organic growth from customers in other verticals, such as education, events and entertainment, restaurants, and travel, as well as from B2B companies. As of MarchJune 31,30, 2026, our platform had efficiently scaled to over 196,000205,000 customers. See the section titled “Key Performance Metrics – Customers” for additional information on how we define customers.
Our land-and-expand strategy aligns our success with that of our customers. As our customers’ businesses grow, they utilize more active consumer profiles and send more emails, text messages and WhatsApp messages, which naturally increases their usage of our platform. Our revenue also expands when our customers add additional marketing channels, such as text messaging, WhatsApp messaging, and mobile push and additional use cases, such as Customer Agent, Marketing Agent,Composer, Marketing Analytics, and Advanced KDP, or when their other companies, business units, and geographies start using our platform.
Attracting new customers to our platform is a key driver of our revenue growth strategy. We have successfully grown our retail and eCommerce customer base and believe we have significant room to expand within this vertical as well as expand further into other industries, including education, events and entertainment, restaurants, wellness, and travel as well as fromwith B2B companies. Our ability to attract new customers will depend on a number of factors, including our ability to innovate, the effectiveness and pricing of our new and existing offerings and capabilities, and the success of our selling and marketing efforts.
We believe we have significant expansion opportunities in international markets. We started by serving customers in North America and, in 2019, we expanded our operations to London, England to penetrate the European region. In 2022, we opened our office in Sydney, Australia to capitalize on the opportunities in Asia Pacific. In 2024, we expanded our presence in the European region by adding operations in Dublin, Ireland. In 2025, we continued our expansion into the Asia Pacific and European regions by adding operations in Singapore and France, respectively. In 2026, we further expanded our North American presence by adding operations in Canada. We have already experienced significant growth with international sales outside of the Americas accounting for 36.6%36.8% of our revenue for the threesix months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026. We also continue to expand our product offerings to better serve the international market. As of the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, we offer text messaging capabilities in more than 20 countries, and we offer our platform in English, French, German, Portuguese, Korean, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish (Mexico), and Polish. We believe that the introduction of additional languages to our platform increases our efficacy and ease of use in other regions. We also currently only bill in U.S. Dollars, and we believe that adding additional currencies to our platform will help us further our international expansion efforts.
Since our inception, we have been focused on product innovation, seeking to create what we believe is the best software solution for our customers. We originally launched our platform with email messaging as our first marketing channel. Since then, we have successfully added other marketing channels, such as text messaging, mobile push, and WhatsApp messaging, and additional use cases, such as Customer Agent, Marketing Agent,Composer, Marketing Analytics, and Advanced KDP. We have also introduced AI features that provide customers with AI-powered tools to streamline data segmentation, create and orchestrate campaigns, and drive better engagement, including our Marketing AgentComposer and Customer Agent offerings as well as our MCP Server capability.
As of MarchJune 31,30, 2026, we had 4,1754,477 customers generating over $50,000 of ARR, compared to 3,0303,291 customers generating over $50,000 of ARR as of MarchJune 31,30, 2025, representing growth of 38%36% year-over-year.
As of MarchJune 31,30, 2026 and 2025, our NRR was 110%109% and 108%, respectively. The increase in this metric from MarchJune 31,30, 2025 to MarchJune 31,30, 2026 was largely driven by expansion of existing customer plans and cross-selling additional offerings.
Revenue
Three and Six Months Ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 Compared to the Three and Six Months Ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025
Revenue - Three Month Change
Revenue for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 increased by $78.2$77.5 million or 27.9%,26.4%, to $358.0$370.6 million compared to $279.8$293.1 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025. The increase was due to new business, including new customers, geographic expansion, expanded usage of our platform, including our text messaging and WhatsApp messaging channels, and new offerings. For the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, sales to existing customers accounted for approximately 44%42% of the increase in revenue while approximately 56%58% of the increase in revenue was related to new customers. Sales to new customers represent the revenue recognized from new customers acquired in the 12 months prior to the period end.
Revenue - Six Month Change
Revenue for the six months ended June 30, 2026 increased by $155.6 million or 27.2%, to $728.6 million compared to $572.9 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025. The increase was due to new business, including new customers, geographic expansion, expanded usage of our platform, including our text messaging and WhatsApp messaging channels, and new offerings. For the six months ended June 30, 2026, sales to existing customers accounted for approximately 43% of the increase in revenue while approximately 57% of the increase in revenue was related to new customers. Sales to new customers represent the revenue recognized from new customers acquired in the 12 months prior to the period end.
Cost of Revenue - Three Month Change
Cost of revenue for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 increased by $21.4$30.2 million or 31.6%,42.4%, to $89.1$101.5 million compared to $67.7$71.2 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025. This was primarily due to an increase of approximately $11.7$14.6 million in outbound communication sending costs on behalf of our customers, driven by increased text message and WhatsApp usage, $3.5$8.0 million in cloud-based infrastructure costs, $3.0 million in salaries and related personnel expenses as a result of an increase in salaries, allocatable costs, and increased target bonus percentages for our Company-wide bonus program in 2026, $2.7 million in cloud-based infrastructure costs, $1.9$2.0 million in amortization from capitalized software costs, and $1.2$2.0 million in technology expenses.
Cost of Revenue - Six Month Change
Gross Profit
Gross profit for the three months ended March 31, 2026 increased by $56.8 million or 26.8%, to $268.9 million compared to $212.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025. This increase was primarily due to revenue growth offset by an increase in cost of revenue due to increased usage.
Selling and Marketing
Selling and marketing expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2026 increased by $10.5 million or 8.5%, to $134.1 million compared to $123.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025. This increase was primarily due to an increase of approximately $10.4 million in salaries and related personnel expenses as a result of increased salaries as well as a bonus plan change to increase target bonus percentages, $1.7 million in partnership-related expenses across our ecosystem, and $1.6 million in professional services, partially offset by a decrease of $2.2 million related to timing of marketing campaigns and $1.6 million in stock-based compensation driven by forfeitures of unvested equity awards and the completion of vesting of certain equity awards.
Research and Development
ResearchCost andof development costsrevenue for the threesix months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 increased by $10.7$51.7 million or 15.4%,37.2%, to $80.0$190.6 million compared to $69.3$138.9 million for the threesix months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025. This increase was primarily due to an increase of approximately $4.8$26.3 million in outbound communication sending costs on behalf of our customers, driven by increased text message and WhatsApp usage, $10.7 million in cloud-based infrastructure costs, $6.6 million in salaries and related personnel expenses as a result of increasedan increase in salaries, allocatable costscosts, and a bonus plan change to increaseincreased target bonus percentages for our Company-wide bonus program in 2026, $3.9 million in amortization from capitalized software costs, and $4.5$3.3 million in technology expenses.
Gross Profit - Three Month Change
General and Administrative
General and administrative expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2026 increased by $10.1 million or 23.4%, to $53.1 million compared to $43.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025. This increase was primarily due to an increase of approximately $3.9 million in stock-based compensation from the vesting of RSUs, $2.1 million in technology expenses, $2.1 million in professional services, and $1.8 million in payment processing fees related to increased volume of customer transactions.
Other Expense, Net
OtherGross expense, net,profit for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 decreasedincreased by $0.2$47.2 million or 34.3%21.3%, to $(0.4)$269.1 million compared to $(0.7)$221.9 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025. This decreaseincrease was primarily due to favorablerevenue foreigngrowth exchangeoffset fluctuations.by an increase in cost of revenue due to increased usage.
Gross Profit - Six Month Change
Gross profit for the six months ended June 30, 2026 increased by $104.0 million or 24.0%, to $538.0 million compared to $434.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025. This increase was primarily due to revenue growth offset by an increase in cost of revenue due to increased usage.
Selling and Marketing - Three Month Change
Selling and marketing expenses for the three months ended June 30, 2026 increased by $12.7 million or 10.0%, to $139.3 million compared to $126.6 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025. This increase was primarily due to an increase of approximately $5.6 million in salaries and related personnel expenses as a result of increased salaries as well as a bonus plan change to increase target bonus percentages, $3.3 million in marketing expenses associated with our advertising campaigns across multiple channels of media, $2.2 million in partnership-related expenses across our ecosystem, and $1.5 million in professional services.
Selling and Marketing - Six Month Change
Selling and marketing expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2026 increased by $23.2 million or 9.3%, to $273.4 million compared to $250.2 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025. This increase was primarily due to an increase of approximately $16.0 million in salaries and related personnel expenses as a result of increased salaries as well as a bonus plan change to increase target bonus percentages, $3.9 million in partnership-related expenses across our ecosystem, and $3.1 million in professional services, $1.2 million in marketing expenses associated with our advertising campaigns across multiple channels of media, $1.2 million in technology expenses, partially offset by a decrease of $2.1 million in stock-based compensation driven by forfeitures of unvested equity awards and the completion of vesting of certain equity awards.
Research and Development - Three Month Change
Research and development costs for the three months ended June 30, 2026 increased by $19.5 million or 26.9%, to $91.9 million compared to $72.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025. This increase was primarily due to an increase of approximately $9.3 million in salaries and related personnel expenses as a result of increased allocatable costs and a bonus plan change to increase target bonus percentages, $8.9 million in technology expenses, and $1.2 million in stock-based compensation due to the vesting of RSUs.
Research and Development - Six Month Change
Research and development costs for the six months ended June 30, 2026 increased by $30.2 million or 21.3%, to $172.0 million compared to $141.8 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025. This increase was primarily due to an increase of approximately $14.1 million in salaries and related personnel expenses as a result of increased allocatable costs and a bonus plan change to increase target bonus percentages, $13.8 million in technology expenses, and $2.0 million in stock-based compensation due to the vesting of RSUs.
General and Administrative - Three Month Change
General and administrative expenses for the three months ended June 30, 2026 decreased by $1.3 million or 2.4%, to $52.8 million compared to $54.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025. This decrease was primarily due to a decrease of $12.8 million in salaries and related personnel expenses as a result of lower payroll taxes from decreased option exercises and decreased allocatable costs, partially offset by an increase of approximately $4.5 million in stock-based compensation from the vesting of RSUs and issuance of PSUs, $2.1 million in technology expenses, $2.1 million in professional services, and $1.9 million in payment processing fees related to increased volume of customer transactions.
General and Administrative - Six Month Change
General and administrative expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2026 increased by $8.8 million or 9.0%, to $105.9 million compared to $97.1 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025. This increase was primarily due to an increase of approximately $8.4 million in stock-based compensation from the vesting of RSUs and issuance of PSUs, $4.2 million in technology expenses, $4.2 million in professional services, and $3.7 million in payment processing fees related to increased volume of customer transactions, partially offset by a decrease of $11.4 million in salaries and related personnel expenses as a result of lower payroll taxes from decreased option exercises and decreased allocatable costs.
Other Expense, Net - Three Month Change
Interest Income
Interest income for the three months ended March 31, 2026 increased by an immaterial amount compared to the three months ended March 31, 2025.
Provision (benefit) for Income Taxes
TheOther Companyexpense, recorded an income tax provision of $1.7 millionnet, for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 decreased by $0.4 million or 43.8% to $(0.5) million compared to an income tax benefit of $(1.10.9) million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025 representing a change of $2.7 million.2025. This decrease was primarily due to an increase infavorable foreign operations.exchange fluctuations.
Other Expense, Net - Six Month Change
Other expense, net, for the six months ended June 30, 2026 decreased by $0.6 million or 39.8% to $(0.9) million compared to $(1.6) million for the six months ended June 30, 2025. This decrease was primarily due to favorable foreign exchange fluctuations.
Interest Income - Three Month Change
Interest income for the three months ended June 30, 2026 decreased by an immaterial amount compared to the three months ended June 30, 2025.
Interest Income - Six Month Change
Interest income for the six months ended June 30, 2026 decreased by an immaterial amount compared to the six months ended June 30, 2025.
Provision for Income Taxes - Three Month Change
Income tax expense for the three months ended June 30, 2026 decreased by an immaterial amount to $1.7 million compared to $1.8 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025.
Provision for Income Taxes - Six Month Change
Income tax expense for the six months ended June 30, 2026 increased by $2.7 million or 366.6% to $3.4 million compared to $0.7 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025. This was primarily due to an increase in foreign operations.
Since our inception through MarchJune 31,30, 2026, we have financed our operations primarily through payments received from our customers and sales of equity securities, including the completion of our IPO in September 2023. As of MarchJune 31,30, 2026, our principal sources of liquidity included cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash totaling $985.3$833.4 million, with such amounts held for working capital purposes. Our cash equivalents were comprised of $376.1$605.0 million in money market funds.
Net cash provided by operating activities of $34.3$128.2 million for the threesix months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 was primarily attributable to a net income of $9.0$0.2 million adjusted for non-cash charges of $78.8$169.0 million and net cash outflows of $53.5$41.1 million from changes in operating assets and liabilities. Non-cash charges primarily consisted of $41.8$93.2 million of stock-based compensation expense, $13.2$26.4 million of prepaid marketing expense amortization, $9.6$20.4 million of amortization related to deferred contract acquisition costs, $7.0$14.3 million of operating lease costs, and $6.3$13.6 million of depreciation and amortization expense. Net cash outflows from changes in operating assets and liabilities primarily consisted of a $21.0$40.5 million increase in deferred contract acquisition costs related to higher sales commissions resulting from our increased revenues, $17.2 million decrease in accrued expenses and accounts payable due to timing of payments, a $12.2$19.7 million increase in accounts receivable due to an increase in customer billings, a $5.8 million increase in prepaid expenses and other assets, and a $5.5$12.7 million decrease in operating lease liabilities due to payments related to our operating lease obligations.obligations, and a $6.4 million increase in prepaid expenses and other assets. The cash outflow was offset by cash inflows primarily from a $8.2$23.4 million increase in accrued expenses and accounts payable due to timing of payments and a $16.3 million increase in deferred revenue resulting from increased billings for subscriptions.
KVYO insider buying and selling (Form 4)
Since 2026-04-11, insiders reported open-market purchases in 0 Form 4 filings and open-market sales in 16 filings (6 insiders, 16 trade dates, 6,065,472 shares, about $105.8M; 15 of these filings say the sales were made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan). Net open-market shares: -6,065,472 (purchases minus sales); net value about -$105.8M.Totals add up every open-market (code P and S) line in those filings, using the prices reported in the filings. Awards, option exercises, tax withholding and gifts are listed below but not counted.
| Trade date | Insider | Transaction | Shares | Price | Value |
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| 2026-09-24 | Hallen Ed |
Open-market sale |
800 | $17.02 | $13.6K |
| 2026-09-24 | Hallen Ed |
Open-market sale |
500 | $17.02 | $8.5K |
| 2026-09-15 | Smith Erica Ellen |
Grant/award | 821,917 | — | — |
| 2026-09-15 | Smith Erica Ellen |
Grant/award | 328,767 | — | — |
| 2026-09-11 | St. Ledger Susan |
Open-market sale |
2,328 | $15.93 | $37.1K |
| 2026-08-31 | Hallen Ed |
Open-market sale |
39,167 | $20.47 | $801.7K |
| 2026-08-31 | Hallen Ed |
Gift |
17,885 | — | — |
| 2026-08-31 | Hallen Ed |
Open-market sale |
59,615 | $20.49 | $1.2M |
| 2026-08-31 | Edmond Landon |
Open-market sale |
8,103 | $20.44 | $165.6K |
| 2026-08-28 | Edmond Landon |
Open-market sale |
53,473 | $20.01 | $1.1M |
| 2026-08-15 | Fernandez Gomez Luciano |
Shares withheld for tax | 29,133 | $18.49 | $538.7K |
| 2026-08-15 | Fernandez Gomez Luciano |
Conversion | 7,001 | — | — |
| 2026-08-15 | Edmond Landon |
Shares withheld for tax | 22,342 | $18.49 | $413.1K |
| 2026-08-15 | Galvin Carmel |
Shares withheld for tax | 30,541 | $18.49 | $564.7K |
| 2026-08-15 | Whalen Amanda |
Shares withheld for tax |
28,950 | $18.49 | $535.3K |
| 2026-08-14 | Whalen Amanda |
Open-market sale |
14,000 | $18.47 | $258.6K |
| 2026-08-11 | Summit Partners Co-Invest (Kiwi), Lp |
Conversion | 5,000,000 | — | — |
| 2026-08-11 | Summit Partners Co-Invest (Kiwi), Lp |
Open-market sale | 5,000,000 | $17.71 | $88.5M |
| 2026-07-22 | Oulman Roxanne |
Conversion | 16,775 | — | — |
| 2026-07-16 | Whalen Amanda |
Open-market sale |
14,000 | $17.75 | $248.5K |
| 2026-06-18 | Whalen Amanda |
Open-market sale |
14,000 | $13.23 | $185.2K |
| 2026-06-11 | Oulman Roxanne |
Conversion | 8,169 | — | — |
| 2026-06-09 | Oulman Roxanne |
Grant/award | 14,822 | — | — |
| 2026-06-09 | St. Ledger Susan |
Grant/award | 14,822 | — | — |
| 2026-06-09 | Ceran Jennifer |
Grant/award | 14,822 | — | — |
| 2026-06-09 | Weisman Tony |
Grant/award | 14,822 | — | — |
| 2026-06-09 | Fernandez Gomez Luciano |
Shares withheld for tax | 1,746 | $14.78 | $25.8K |
| 2026-05-26 | Bialecki Andrew |
Open-market sale |
212,529 | $14.61 | $3.1M |
| 2026-05-26 | Bialecki Andrew |
Conversion |
212,529 | — | — |
| 2026-05-19 | Bialecki Andrew |
Conversion |
200,000 | — | — |
| 2026-05-19 | Bialecki Andrew |
Open-market sale |
200,000 | $14.88 | $3.0M |
| 2026-05-18 | St. Ledger Susan |
Open-market sale |
9,334 | $14.27 | $133.2K |
| 2026-05-18 | St. Ledger Susan |
Conversion |
9,334 | — | — |
| 2026-05-15 | Edmond Landon |
Shares withheld for tax | 22,340 | $14.38 | $321.2K |
| 2026-05-15 | Fernandez Gomez Luciano |
Shares withheld for tax | 22,132 | $14.38 | $318.3K |
| 2026-05-15 | Galvin Carmel |
Shares withheld for tax | 30,541 | $14.38 | $439.2K |
| 2026-05-15 | Whalen Amanda |
Shares withheld for tax |
42,476 | $14.38 | $610.8K |
| 2026-05-15 | Whalen Amanda |
Conversion |
13,527 | — | — |
| 2026-05-14 | Whalen Amanda |
Conversion |
14,000 | — | — |
| 2026-05-14 | Whalen Amanda |
Open-market sale |
14,000 | $14.26 | $199.6K |
| 2026-05-12 | Bialecki Andrew |
Conversion |
200,000 | — | — |
| 2026-05-12 | Bialecki Andrew |
Open-market sale |
141,316 | $14.46 | $2.0M |
| 2026-05-12 | Bialecki Andrew |
Open-market sale |
58,684 | $14.97 | $878.5K |
| 2026-04-20 | Edmond Landon |
Open-market sale |
9,623 | $20.00 | $192.5K |
| 2026-04-16 | Whalen Amanda |
Conversion |
4,293 | — | — |
| 2026-04-16 | Whalen Amanda |
Open-market sale |
14,000 | $18.54 | $259.6K |
| 2026-04-15 | Edmond Landon |
Grant/award | 129,870 | — | — |
| 2026-04-15 | Edmond Landon |
Grant/award | 151,515 | — | — |
| 2026-04-15 | Galvin Carmel |
Grant/award | 189,393 | — | — |
| 2026-04-15 | Galvin Carmel |
Grant/award | 162,337 | — | — |
| 2026-04-15 | Whalen Amanda |
Grant/award |
265,151 | — | — |
| 2026-04-15 | Whalen Amanda |
Grant/award |
227,272 | — | — |
| 2026-04-14 | Bialecki Andrew |
Open-market sale |
90,858 | $16.94 | $1.5M |
| 2026-04-14 | Bialecki Andrew |
Open-market sale |
109,142 | $17.39 | $1.9M |
| 2026-04-14 | Bialecki Andrew |
Conversion |
200,000 | — | — |
Well-known investors holding KVYO (13F)
| Investor | Quarter | Shares | Reported value | % of their 13F | Change vs prior quarter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whale Rock Capital Management | 2026-06-30 | 5,528,166 | $83.5M | 0.67% | Reduced 19% |
| Millennium Management (Israel Englander) | 2026-06-30 | 4,117,367 | $62.2M | 0.04% | Added 75% |
| Two Sigma Investments | 2026-06-30 | 1,767,900 | $26.7M | 0.02% | Reduced 39% |
| Renaissance Technologies | 2026-06-30 | 1,560,244 | $23.6M | 0.03% | Reduced 5% |
| D. E. Shaw & Co. | 2026-06-30 | 1,194,162 | $18.0M | 0.01% | Added 1751% |
| Citadel Advisors (Ken Griffin) | 2026-06-30 | 1,172,112 | $17.7M | 0.01% | Added 1% |
| Point72 Asset Management (Steve Cohen) | 2026-06-30 | 1,114,467 | $16.8M | 0.03% | Reduced 33% |
| AQR Capital Management (Cliff Asness) | 2026-06-30 | 317,805 | $4.8M | 0.0% | Reduced 65% |