Organization, Description of Business

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2013

Organization, Description of Business

Organization, Description of Business

1. Organization, Description of Business

Nature of Operations

Tangoe, Inc. (the “Company”), a Delaware corporation, was incorporated on February 9, 2000 as TelecomRFQ, Inc. During 2001, the Company changed its name to Tangoe, Inc. The Company provides communications lifecycle management software and related services to a wide range of enterprises, including large and medium-sized businesses and other organizations. Communications lifecycle management encompasses the entire lifecycle of an enterprise’s communications assets and services, including planning and sourcing, procurement and provisioning, inventory and usage management, mobile device management, real-time telecommunications expense management, invoice processing, expense allocation and accounting and asset decommissioning and disposal. The Company’s Communications Management Platform is an on-demand suite of software designed to manage and optimize the complex processes and expenses associated with this lifecycle for both fixed and mobile communications assets and services. The Company’s customers can also engage the Company through its client services group to manage their communications assets and services through its Communications Management Platform.

Public Offerings

In August 2011, the Company completed its initial public offering whereby it sold 7,500,000 shares of common stock at a price to the public of $10.00 per share.  The Company received proceeds from its initial public offering of $66.0 million, net of underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering costs of $3.8 million.

As part of the initial public offering, an additional 2,585,500 shares of common stock were sold by certain existing stockholders at a price to the public of $10.00 per share, including 1,315,500 shares sold by such stockholders upon the exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares.  The Company did not receive any proceeds from the sale of such shares by the selling stockholders.

In April 2012, the Company completed a public offering whereby it sold 2,200,000 shares of common stock at a price to the public of $18.50 per share.  The Company received proceeds from this public offering of $38.5 million, net of underwriting discounts and commissions but before offering costs of $0.7 million.

As part of this public offering, an additional 7,000,000 shares of common stock were sold by certain existing stockholders at a price to the public of $18.50 per share, including 1,200,000 shares sold by such stockholders upon the exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares.  The Company did not receive any proceeds from the sale of such shares by the selling stockholders.

The Company’s common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market.

Basis of Presentation of Interim Financial Statements

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) considered necessary for the fair statement of the Company’s financial position and results of operations for the periods presented have been included. Operating results for the three months ended March 31, 2013 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2013, for any other interim period or for any other future year.

The consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2012 has been derived from the audited financial statements at that date, but does not include all of the disclosures required by GAAP. The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto contained in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012 as filed with the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on March 18, 2013 (the “2012 Form 10-K”).

Significant Accounting Policies

The Company’s significant accounting policies are disclosed in the audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2012 included in the 2012 Form 10-K.  Since the date of those financial statements, there have been no material changes to the Company’s significant accounting policies.