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CS DISCO SEC Filing – Prospectus Summary (June 25, 2021)

This summary highlights selected information contained elsewhere in this prospectus. This summary does not contain all of the information you should consider before investing in our common stock. You should read this entire prospectus carefully, including the sections titled “Risk Factors,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” “Business,” and our consolidated financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus, before making an investment decision. Unless the context otherwise requires, all references in this prospectus to “CS Disco,” “DISCO,” the “company,” “we,” “our,” “us” or similar terms refer to CS Disco, Inc. and its subsidiaries.

Our Mission

Our mission is to use technology to strengthen the rule of law.

Overview

DISCO provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies ediscovery, legal document review and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers and governments. Our scalable, integrated solution enables legal departments to easily collect, process and review enterprise data that is relevant or potentially relevant to legal matters. We leverage a cloud-native architecture and powerful artificial intelligence, or AI, models to automatically identify legally relevant documents and improve the accuracy and speed of legal document review. Our AI models continuously learn from legal work conducted on our solution and can be reused across legal matters, which further strengthens our ability to help our customers find evidence and resolve matters faster as they expand usage of our solution. We provide legal departments with the ability to centralize legal data into a single solution, improving security and privacy for our customers, enabling transparent collaboration with other legal industry participants and allowing customers to reuse data and lawyer work product across legal matters. As of March 2021, our solution held more than 10 billion files and 2.5 petabytes of data and we used more than 14 billion serverless compute calls in 2021 to process and enrich data for our customers. By automating the manual, time-consuming and error-prone parts of ediscovery, legal document review and case management, we empower legal departments to focus on delivering better legal outcomes.

Since our founding in 2013, and beginning with our founders, DISCO has assembled a team that combines strength in software engineering, cloud computing and AI, with deep legal expertise and a rich understanding of the problems that lawyers and legal professionals face and how they work. This combination of expertise means that our team is distinctly well-positioned to execute on our vision of building technology that powers the legal function across companies in every industry.

Lawyers and legal professionals love our solution, as demonstrated by our Net Promoter Score, or NPS, of 63 as of December 31, 2020. We calculate NPS based on the basis of a survey that asks, “How likely are you to recommend DISCO to a colleague?”. The survey respondent can choose an integer between zero and ten, with the percentage of users responding with a 6 or below subtracted from the percentage of users responding with a 9 or 10 to calculate the NPS. Our relentless focus on delivering a solution that legal professionals love is coupled with a simple and transparent usage-based business model. We believe this enables our customers to easily adopt our solution, realize rapid time-to-value, scale their usage within and across applications to match their changing needs and collaborate with others. This has allowed us to build a powerful product-led growth engine that efficiently expands the usage of our solution for more legal matters and use cases within organizations, spreads our solution across the legal ecosystem through collaboration and word-of-mouth and increases the value of our solution as we collect and process more data and lawyers do more legal work in our solution. The success of this growth model is underscored by our dollar-based net retention rate of 122% as of March 31, 2021, as well as by the fact that, in 2020, 171 law firms in the 2020 AmLaw 200, a ranking of the 200-highest grossing law firms in the United States, used DISCO in the course of legal work on behalf of their clients. As of March 31, 2021, we had 909 enterprises, law firms, legal services providers and government organizations as DISCO customers.

Law affects everyone, from the largest multinational corporations to local mom-and-pop businesses, from the most powerful national governments to the smallest towns and from major civic organizations to individual citizens. The impact of law on the business world is only growing, with businesses today operating in more jurisdictions than ever before and increasingly exposed to a growing number of constantly changing laws and regulations that can materially damage a company’s brand and operations. This has turned the corporate legal function into a mission-critical, strategic component of the modern enterprise and contributed to the growth in global spend on legal services, which is forecasted by Statista to be $767 billion in 2021. But despite its enormous scale and attractive opportunities for automation and the application of AI to improve lawyer productivity and job satisfaction, the legal industry has lagged behind other industries in digitization and cloud technology adoption.

Since our inception, our principal goal has been to create experiences that feel “magical” to lawyers, by delivering intuitive, intelligent offerings that are well-tailored to lawyers’ workflows and a joy for legal professionals to use. Our solution is enabled by our deep investment in a modern, scalable cloud architecture that accelerates application development; makes our offerings robust, scalable and secure; and enables us to act as a secure single system of record and engagement for all legal data at enterprise scale. We have built our solution to incorporate the latest advances in automation and AI directly into existing lawyer workflows to multiply lawyer productivity across the ediscovery and legal document review lifecycle. Our cloud-native, AI-powered software is augmented with deep expertise, consultative professional services and flexible customer support that enables us to be a single-source provider and meet the diverse needs of customers in every industry. With our full-stack solution, legal departments no longer need to rely on a fragmented network of slow, antiquated processes and law firms and service providers manually collecting, searching and reviewing documents. We believe this reduces legal costs, increases lawyer productivity and improves legal outcomes. We intend to extend our solution and apply it to other kinds of legal work over time, enabling us to compete for an increasing share of global spend on legal services.

Our approach has enabled us to serve a diverse set of enterprises across a broad set of industries, as well as law firms, legal services providers of all sizes and government organizations. While we serve customers across many different industries, the way in which legal professionals use our solution is similar regardless of the specific industry in which each customer operates. This commonality has created efficiencies in our sales, marketing and research and development efforts because we do not need to tailor our solution to a wide range of industries. The broad applicability of our solution across a spectrum of industries has created a significant market opportunity for us, which we estimate to be $42 billion globally.

We believe that great achievements come from aiming great people at big problems, and that our employees, who we call “Discovians,” are the principal driver of our success. We strive to attract, retain, develop and promote humble, curious and empathetic Discovians across all areas of our business. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace that values input from every corner of our business and creating an environment where all people feel welcome and connected regardless of their background. Our culture is guided by the principles we set forth in our MAGIC core values: Meaningful impact, All-in, Grit and grace, Innovation and Craft. These principles shape our culture and guide the way we work, support each other and our communities and serve our customers. We believe that our culture and commitment to giving back to our community are critical to advancing our mission of using technology to strengthen the rule of law.

We have experienced rapid growth in recent periods. Since inception, we have raised $161.0 million of capital and we had $53.6 million of cash and cash equivalents as of March 31, 2021. We generated revenue of $48.6 million and $68.4 million in 2019 and 2020, respectively, representing year-over-year growth of 41%. We generated revenue of $15.7 million and $21.1 million in the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2021, respectively, representing period-over-period growth of 35%. Our net loss was $29.8 million, $22.9 million, $11.2 million and $2.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2020 and the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2021, respectively. We generated Adjusted EBITDA of $(25.4) million, $(19.9) million, $(10.3) million and $(1.9) million for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2020 and the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2021, respectively. See the section titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Non-GAAP Financial Measure” for the definition of Adjusted EBITDA, as well as a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to net loss, the most directly comparable financial measure stated in accordance with GAAP.

Industry Background

Law is fundamental to society, affecting everyone from the largest multinational corporations to local mom-and-pop businesses, from the most powerful national governments to the smallest towns, from major civic organizations to individual citizens. The impact of law on business is only growing, with legal issues creating headline news, from the opioids epidemic to litigation over national elections to the creation of new business models such as the burgeoning gig economy. According to a study by Statista, the estimated global spend on legal services is forecasted to be $767 billion in 2021.

Key trends that are influencing the legal industry include:

The Legal Function is Increasingly Mission-Critical to Every Organization in the World

Three related trends are increasing the relative strategic importance of the legal function in organizations:

  • As businesses operate in more jurisdictions, they are exposed to more and more varied laws and regulations;
  • Many jurisdictions are continuously creating more laws and regulations, often in new and evolving areas, increasing the exposure of businesses to legal liability; and
  • Legal issues increasingly create liability and front-page news for businesses, with attendant risks to a company’s brand, reputation and business outcomes.

Digital Transformations that have Happened in Other Business Functions are Now Happening in the Legal Function

Despite the enormous scale of the legal industry, the increasing sophistication of enterprise clients and rampant digital transformation in other industries, the legal industry has lagged behind nearly every other industry in digitization and cloud technology adoption. This is finally changing, driven by a growing realization that the only way to effectively cope with the increasing demand for legal services and the increasing complexity of the legal environment is to leverage technology to increase the productivity of lawyers and by the maturity of underlying technologies like cloud computing and AI that make it possible to build transformative legaltech applications.

The Volume, Variety and Velocity of Enterprise Data that can Become Documentary Evidence in Legal Matters is Exploding

The large and growing volume, variety and velocity of enterprise data has made the traditional ways of collecting, searching and reviewing enterprise data to find documentary evidence extremely cumbersome, complex and time-consuming. This is driving legal departments to adopt more sophisticated and easier to use technology solutions that can accelerate the process of collecting, searching and reviewing massive amounts of diverse enterprise data with accuracy, speed and security.

Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing Have Reached a Point of Technological Maturity Where They Enable Legaltech Applications to Transform Legal Work

Cloud computing and modern approaches to AI create the conditions under which it is possible to build modern legaltech applications that can automate much of the previously manual, time-consuming work done by legal professionals. These technological advances make it possible to build legaltech applications that increase lawyer productivity, improve lawyer job satisfaction and ultimately empower lawyers to improve legal outcomes for their clients.

The Pursuit of Differentiation in the Highly Competitive Legal Industry is Driving Rapid Technology Adoption by Legal Departments, Law Firms and Legal Services Providers

The legal industry is highly fragmented and competitive. Law firms and legal services providers must differentiate themselves from their competitors or risk declining market share, declining earnings, consolidation, or all of the above. The competitive dynamics of the legal industry has led to increasing pressure to adopt legaltech.

Legal Professionals are Increasingly Seeking a Modern, Fast and Easy-to-Use Solution that is Purpose-Built for How They Work

The rapid growth in use of consumer software and other consumer technology, including the proliferation of mobile devices; the generational shift of lawyers; and the increasing career mobility of lawyers are all contributing to a radical change in expectations for legal technology.

Limitations of Existing Solutions

Today, most legal departments rely on a fragmented, services-heavy and multi-vendor approach which poses several challenges that limit the productivity of lawyers and legal professionals, including:

  • Incomplete Point Solutions that are Poorly Integrated. Existing solutions generally force legal departments to coordinate the flow of work across law firms and legal services providers and require some or all of these stakeholders to manage the flow of data between multiple, non-interoperable, legacy software point solutions.
  • Extremely Manual. Existing ediscovery point solutions generally lack a robust, software-driven automation layer, which requires legal departments to rely on a heavy layer of human services provided by legal services providers. Additionally, legal document review solutions often lack robust software tools for data reuse and easy-to-use AI integrated directly into lawyer workflows, forcing existing legal document review solutions to rely on large teams of lawyers to manually review documents.
  • Difficult to Use. The complexity and poor usability of existing solutions often deter lawyers from using them directly and limit their widespread adoption across teams, preventing legal departments from fully realizing the benefits of advances in technology such as AI.
  • Slow. Most existing solutions do not take advantage of elastic computing and modern approaches to automation and AI and are slow to complete basic tasks across the spectrum of ediscovery and legal document review. Additionally, the heavy reliance on human services as part of existing solutions introduces further delays, with lawyers repeatedly waiting for legal services providers to complete tasks that they cannot complete themselves.
  • Lack Robust, Easy-to-Use AI Capabilities. Most existing solutions lack comprehensive AI capabilities that can help lawyers classify and comprehend massive amounts of structured and unstructured data quickly and reliably. Additionally, many existing solutions lack the ability to continuously improve AI models in real-time based on lawyers’ work or train and use these models across multiple legal matters so that legal document review need not start from scratch in each new legal matter.
  • Inability to Scale. Existing solutions often fail to take advantage of modern developments in cloud computing such as elastic compute and serverless compute to dynamically scale computing resources to handle, store and process transient spikes in data required by modern legal matters in real-time.
  • Lack of Security, Privacy, Control and Extensibility. Most existing solutions fail to provide legal departments with a secure system of record and engagement for enterprise data involved in legal matters.
  • Expensive and Unpredictable. Existing solutions can require legal departments to manage multiple solutions from multiple vendors with separate, opaque pricing models.

Our Solution

Our solution is the result of uniquely combining an ability to deliver world-class software engineering with a deep love and respect for the law. Our aim is to create a solution that feels “magical” to lawyers. Our full-stack solution currently includes the following offerings:

  • DISCO Ediscovery automates much of the ediscovery process, saving legal departments from costly and cumbersome manual tasks associated with collecting, processing, enriching, searching, reviewing, analyzing, producing and using enterprise data that is at issue in legal matters.
  • DISCO Review is AI-powered document review that consistently delivers legal document reviews that are high quality, on time and on budget.
  • DISCO Case Builder allows legal professionals to collaborate across teams to effectively build a compelling case by offering a single place to search, organize and review witness testimony and other important legal data.

The key elements of our solution include:

  • Comprehensive and Full-Stack. We deliver an end-to-end, full-stack solution designed to address each part of the problem of managing enterprise data and witness testimony in legal matters, from ediscovery to legal document review to case management.
  • Automation that Renders Heavy Human Ediscovery Services Obsolete. We designed our solution to automate most bill-by-the-hour professional services traditionally involved in ediscovery.
  • AI that Simplifies and Streamlines Legal Document Review. Our AI models apply cloud computing and sophisticated machine learning methods to classify and sort massive amounts of data and provide precise predictions of document relevance in a fraction of the time required for traditional review.
  • Purpose-Built for Lawyers and Other Legal Professionals. The extensive background that many DISCO employees have as former practicing lawyers, as well as our deep product engagement with customers on each matter, give us a deep understanding of the needs and preferences of legal professionals. Every feature of our solution was built to seamlessly integrate with the workflows lawyers actually employ on a daily basis.
  • Powerful, Scalable and Extensible Modern Cloud Architecture. Our state-of-the-art cloud-native architecture delivers superior performance, scalability and extensibility.

Our Business Model

We believe that the combination of our designed-for-legal applications and our usage-based business model makes it easy for customers to adopt and begin using our solution, realize rapid time to value and expand their usage of our solution over time. Our business model benefits from viral characteristics and powerful network effects that continuously enhance the value of our solution, extend our reach and help us efficiently acquire new customers as we grow. These effects happen along several dimensions, which together we refer to as our “product-led growth engine.”

  • Viral Expansion Within an Organization.  Our business model allows customers to easily adopt and use our solution for an initial set of legal matters, regardless of size. After realizing the benefits of our solution, customers often both expand usage of our solution to more legal matters and adopt more of our offerings. This dynamic is reflected in our 122% dollar-based net retention rate as of March 31, 2021.
  • Viral Expansion Through Our Ecosystem. We designed our solution to facilitate widespread adoption across legal industry participants by allowing for potential customers to use our solution to collaborate with existing customers. These users may then become champions and encourage the companies they work for to become customers. Since many companies use multiple law firms and most law firm represents multiple companies, this process repeats itself as we acquire more customers, enabling a frictionless cycle of adoption across the legal ecosystem.
  • Network Effects Driven by Usage.  As more lawyers use our solution the scale and diversity of the data, we collect and process and the nature of the legal work done on our solution grows. We enable customers to easily retain data and reuse it for future legal matters. Additionally, our AI models improve as they are trained on more data and observe more lawyer work on that data in our solution, which allows our customers to uncover evidence more quickly as we grow.

Key Benefits of Our Solution

Our end-to-end solution was designed to improve the everyday experience of lawyers and legal professionals and improve legal outcomes for legal departments. We deliver the following key benefits:

  • Full Stack and Turnkey. We enable customers to consume our offerings in a self-service way or as a turnkey, full-stack solution, giving our customers the flexibility to tailor their ediscovery and legal document review processes to their own legal work strategy and use different combinations of our offerings on different subsets of their legal work.
  • High End-User Satisfaction Driven by Applications Built for Lawyers and Other Legal Professionals. We strive to create product experiences that feel “magical” to lawyers: intuitive, easy to use, powerful and comprehensive.
  • Increased Accuracy and Quality of Review. Our solution allows lawyers to use AI and analytics integrated into a lawyer-friendly and highly automated workflow to increase the accuracy and quality of legal reviews.
  • Faster Resolution of Legal Matters with Better Outcomes. Our solution enables lawyers to determine the facts and use those facts to assess legal matters and produce evidence more quickly. We believe this enables them to resolve legal matters faster, which can result in significantly reduced legal costs and the reduction or avoidance of legal risks across their full portfolio of legal matters.
  • Scalable, Secure, Single System of Record and Engagement for Legal Data. The scalability, performance and extensibility of our cloud-native architecture allows customers to use DISCO as a secure single system of record and engagement for all enterprise data related to legal matters at enterprise scale.
  • Cost Flexibility and Predictability. Our simple, all-in pricing model and flexible terms align with our customers’ needs, are easy to understand and guarantee costs for our customers, allowing legal departments to improve cost predictability and budget planning.

What Sets Us Apart

We believe that the combination of our cloud-native technology, full-stack solution, world-class engineering and our deep legal expertise has resulted in several unique competitive strengths. These competitive advantages include:

  • Full-Stack, Comprehensive Solution. We offer an end-to-end solution that is used for both ediscovery (DISCO Ediscovery) and AI-powered legal document review (DISCO Review), giving our customers the flexibility to decide how much of their ediscovery and legal document review process to outsource to us versus handle internally or through law firms and legal services providers. Our cloud-native, AI-powered solution is augmented with deep expertise, consultative professional services and flexible customer support.
  • Efficient Product-Led Growth Engine with Powerful Network Effects. Our model has enabled us to build an efficient, usage-based, product-led growth engine that spreads our solution across the legal ecosystem through collaboration and powerful word-of-mouth and facilitates rapid customer adoption and expansion.
  • Lawyer-Centric Applications Built by a Unique Combination of Deep Expertise and Continuous Solution Innovation. Our expertise in both engineering and law and our unique product design and development process, which we call “Law Review,” allows us to understand and anticipate what legal professionals need to accelerate and improve their work.
  • Cloud-Native, Scalable and Secure Solution Built on a High-Performing Application Architecture. Designed to operate on the cloud from the beginning, our solution architecture cannot be easily replicated and offers superior performance, scalability, availability, true multi-tenancy and lower operating costs compared to legacy software providers.
  • Powerful AI Coupled with Robust Data Management. Our use of AI coupled with our ability to be a secure, single system of record and engagement for our customers’ legal data allows legal departments to easily gather, act on, retain and reuse enterprise data for ongoing legal work, all within our solution. Our solution transforms an organization’s legal data from a potential liability into a potential competitive advantage.
  • Designed for the Enterprise. Our solution is designed for enterprise adoption and can be applied to a wide variety of enterprise use cases, including not only litigation, but also for example, internal investigations, merger clearance and compliance.
  • Founder-Led Management Team with Deep Domain Expertise. Our deep familiarity with the day-to-day needs and preferences of lawyers forms the basis for the development of our solution and has enabled us to repeatedly deliver product experiences that lawyers and legal professionals love.
  • Strong Culture Committed to Our Employees, Our Community and the Rule of Law. We foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, acceptance and compassion that extends beyond the workplace.

Our Market Opportunity

Legal services is a massive, growing global industry that we believe is significantly underpenetrated by modern technology solutions. According to Statista, total global legal services spend is forecasted to be $767 billion in 2021 and grow to $846 billion in 2023. Within legal services, DISCO Ediscovery addresses the ediscovery market. According to International Data Corporation, the worldwide ediscovery software and services market is forecasted to be $14.7 billion in 2021 and grow to $16.9 billion by 2024.

With the introduction of DISCO Review, we expanded the portion of the total legal services market that we address to include legal document review. We estimate the market for our solution to be approximately $42 billion. To estimate our total market opportunity, we identified the number of companies worldwide across all industries with at least 100 employees, based on certain independent industry data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. We then segmented these companies into four categories based on total number of employees: companies with 100-249 employees, companies with 250-2,499 employees, companies with 2,500-9,999 employees and companies with 10,000 or more employees. We then multiplied the number of companies in each category by the average revenue per corporate customer (excluding law firm and legal services provider customers) in each such cohort in 2020, which we believe represents a customer that has broadly deployed our solution across the enterprise and then summed the results from each category. We believe our estimated market opportunity will continue to grow as customers expand usage of our solution for more legal matters and adopt more of our offerings for more legal use cases.

Our Growth Strategies

We are pursuing multiple levers for future growth:

Fuel the DISCO Product-Led Growth Engine

  • Maintain and advance our innovation and brand;
  • Add new customers; and
  • Increase usage and penetration within our existing customer base.

Extend Our Reach

  • Expand our sales coverage and establish a digital sales channel;
  • Expand internationally;
  • Extend and strengthen our channel partnerships and integrations;
  • Expand our offering portfolio; and
  • Pursue strategic acquisitions and strategic investments.

Risks Related to Our Business and Investment in Our Common Stock

Investing in our common stock involves substantial risk. The risks described in the section titled “Risk Factors” immediately following this summary may cause us to not realize the full benefits of our strengths or may cause us to be unable to successfully execute all or part of our strategy. Some of the more significant challenges include the following:

  • Our recent rapid growth may not be indicative of our future growth. Our rapid growth also makes it difficult to evaluate our future prospects and may increase the risk that we will not be successful.
  • Our limited operating history and our history of operating losses makes it difficult to evaluate our current business and prospects and may increase the risks associated with your investment.
  • Our business depends on customers increasing their use of our solution and any loss of customers or decline in their use of our solution could harm our business.
  • Usage of our solution accounts for substantially all of our revenue.
  • If we are unable to attract new customers and retain existing customers, our business, financial condition and results of operations will be adversely affected.
  • We rely upon third-party providers of cloud-based infrastructure to host our cloud-based solution. Any disruption in the operations of these third-party providers, limitations on capacity or interference with our use could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
  • We expect fluctuations of our financial results, which may cause quarterly comparisons not to be meaningful.
  • Our revenue growth depends in part on the success of our strategic relationships with law firms and other legal services providers, and if we are unable to establish and maintain successful relationships with them, our business, operating results and financial condition could be adversely affected.
  • The markets in which we participate are competitive, and if we do not compete effectively, our business will be harmed.
  • We employ a pricing model that subjects us to various challenges, and given our limited history with our pricing model, we may not be able to accurately predict the optimal pricing necessary to attract new customers and retain existing customers.
  • We rely on the performance of highly skilled personnel, including our management and other key employees, and the loss of one or more of such personnel, or of a significant number of our team members, could harm our business.
  • Our current operations are international in scope and we plan on further geographic expansion, creating a variety of operational challenges.
  • Unfavorable conditions in our industry or the global economy or reductions in legal spending could harm our business.
  • Our business and results of operations may be materially adversely affected by the recent COVID-19 outbreak or other similar outbreaks.
  • We may in the future be subject to legal proceedings and litigation, including intellectual property disputes, which are costly and may subject us to significant liability and increased costs of doing business. Our business may suffer if it is alleged or determined that our technology infringes the intellectual property rights of others.

We operate in a highly regulated industry and either are or may be subject to a wide range of federal, state and local, as well as foreign, laws, rules and regulations, and our failure to comply with these laws and regulations may force us to change our operations or harm our business.

Our computer systems, or those of any third parties on whom we depend, may fail or suffer security or data privacy breaches or other unauthorized or improper access to, use of, or destruction of our proprietary or confidential data, employee data, or personal data, which could result in additional costs, loss of revenue, significant liabilities, harm to our brand and material disruption of our operations.

Insiders have substantial control over us and will be able to influence corporate matters.

Corporate Information

We were incorporated in Delaware in December 2013. Our principal executive offices are located at 3700 N. Capital of Texas Hwy., Suite 150, Austin, Texas 78746, and our telephone number at that address is (833) 653-4726. Our website address is www.csdisco.com. Information contained on, or that can be accessed through, our website is not incorporated by reference into this prospectus, and you should not consider information on our website to be part of this prospectus or in deciding to purchase our common stock.

“DISCO” and our other registered and common law trade names, trademarks and service marks are the property of CS Disco, Inc. or our subsidiaries. All other trademarks, trade names and service marks appearing in this prospectus are the property of their respective owners. Solely for convenience, the trademarks and trade names in this prospectus may be referred to without the ® and  symbols, but such references should not be construed as any indicator that their respective owners will not assert their rights thereto.

Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company and a Smaller Reporting Company

We are an “emerging growth company” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, or the JOBS Act. We may take advantage of certain exemptions from various public company reporting requirements, including not being required to have our internal control over financial reporting audited by our independent registered public accounting firm under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements and exemptions from the requirements of holding a non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation and any golden parachute payments. We may take advantage of these exemptions for up to five years or until we are no longer an emerging growth company, whichever is earlier. In addition, the JOBS Act provides that an “emerging growth company” can delay adopting new or revised accounting standards until those standards apply to private companies. We have elected to use the extended transition period under the JOBS Act. Accordingly, our financial statements may not be comparable to the financial statements of public companies that comply with such new or revised accounting standards.

We will remain an emerging growth company until the earliest of: (1) the last day of the fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of this offering; (2) the last day of the first fiscal year in which our annual gross revenue is $1.07 billion or more; (3) the date on which we have, during the previous rolling three-year period, issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities; and (4) the last day of the fiscal year in which the market value of our common stock held by non-affiliates exceeded $700 million as of June 30 of such fiscal year.

We are also a “smaller reporting company” as defined in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. We may continue to be a smaller reporting company even after we are no longer an emerging growth company. We may take advantage of certain of the scaled disclosures available to smaller reporting companies and will be able to take advantage of these scaled disclosures for so long as (i) the market value of our voting and non-voting common stock held by non-affiliates is less than $250 million measured on the last business day of our second fiscal quarter or (ii) our annual revenue is less than $100 million during the most recently completed fiscal year and the market value of our voting and non-voting common stock held by non-affiliates is less than $700 million measured on the last business day of our second fiscal quarter. Specifically, as a smaller reporting company, we may choose to present only the two most recent fiscal years of audited financial statements in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and have reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation, and, similar to emerging growth companies, if we are a smaller reporting company with less than $100 million in annual revenue, we would not be required to obtain an attestation report on internal control over financial reporting issued by our independent registered public accounting firm.

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